Leonard Cohen 1970 Isle Of Wight Performance Coming To DVD

Leonard Cohen will follow this year's Polaris Music Prize long listed CD/DVD package, Live In London, on Oct. 20 with a CD/DVD package documenting his performance at the 1970 Isle Of Wight Music Festival.

Leonard Cohen Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970, which will be released through Columbia/Legacy, was shot by Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Murray Lerner (From Mao To Mozart: Isaac Stern In China) on Aug. 31, 1970 in front of an audience of 600,000 after Jimi Hendrix's set, which was to be one of Hendrix's final gigs. Audio of the set was recorded by producer Teo Macero (Miles Davis, Charles Mingus).

Cohen was joined at the gig by back-up band Bob Johnston, Charlie Daniels (bass, fiddle), Ron Cornelius (guitar) and Elkin "Bubba" Daniels (bass, banjo) along with back-up singers Corlynn Hanney, Susan Musamanno and Donna Washburn. The DVD/Blu-ray features bonus interviews with Baez, Kris Kristofferson and Judy Collins, who watched Cohen's set from the side of the stage.

Leonard Cohen Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970 will be released as a CD/DVD package and the audio also be available as a separate double-LP vinyl set and Blu-ray disc.

The release of the package coincides with Cohen's upcoming North American tour, which will take place in October and November. You can see Cohen here:

Aug. 26 Wiesen, Austria @ Festivalgenande
Aug. 28 Bratislava, Slovakia @ Incheba Expo Arena
Aug. 29 Prague, Czech Republic @ O2 Arena
Aug. 31 Budapest, Hungary @ Arena Plaza
Sept. 2 Belgrade, Serbia @ Belgrade Arena
Sept. 4 Bucharest, Romania @ Piata Constitutiei
Sept. 12 Madrid, Spain @ Palacio De Deportes De La Comunidad De Madrid
Sept. 13 Granada, Spain @ Coliseo Atarfe
Sept. 15 Zaragoza, Spain @ Pabellon Principe Felipe
Sept. 17 Bilbao, Spain @ Bilbao Exhibition Centre
Sept. 21 Barcelona, Spain @ Palau Sant Jordi
Oct. 17 Sunrise, FL @ BankAtlantic Center
Oct. 19 Tampa, FL @ St. Pete Times Forum
Oct. 20 Atlanta, GA @ Fox Theatre
Oct. 22 Philadelphia, PA @ Wachovia Spectrum
Oct. 23 New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
Oct. 25 Cleveland, OH @ Allen Theatre
Oct. 27 Columbus, OH @ Palace Theatre
Oct. 29 Chicago, IL @ Rosemont Theatre
Nov. 1 Asheville, NC @ Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
Nov. 3 Durham, NC @ Durham Performing Arts Center
Nov. 5 Nashville, TN @ Tennessee Performing Arts Center
Nov. 7 St. Louis, MO @ Fox Theatre
Nov. 9 Kansas City, MO @ The Midland by AMC
Nov. 12 Las Vegas, NV @ The Colosseum at Caesar's Palace
Nov. 13 San Jose, CA @ HP Pavilion at San Jose

Here's what's on Leonard Cohen Live At The Isle Of Wight 1970:

DVD/BluRay:

"Intro: 'Diamonds In The Mine'"
"Famous Blue Raincoat"
"It's A Large Nation"
"Bird On The Wire"
"One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong"
"The Stranger Song"
"Tonight Will Be Fine"
"They've Surrounded The Island"
"Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye"
"Sing Another Song Boys"
"Judy Collins Introduces 'Suzanne'"
"Suzanne"
"Joan Baez On The Isle Of Wight"
"The Partisan"
"Seems So Long Ago, Nancy"
"Credits: 'So Long, Marianne'"
"Bonus Interviews: Bob Johnston, Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Kris Kristofferson"

CD/Vinyl:

"Introduction"
"Bird On The Wire"
"Intro To 'So Long, Marianne'"
"So Long, Marianne"
"Intro: 'Let's renew ourselves now...'"
"You Know Who I Am"
"Intro To Poems"
"Lady Midnight"
"They Locked Up A Man" (poem)/"A Person Who Eats Meat)/Intro"
"One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong"
"The Stranger Song"
"Tonight Will Be Fine"
"Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye"
"Diamonds In The Mine"
"Suzanne"
"Sing Another Song, Boys"
"The Partisan"
"Famous Blue Raincoat"
"Seems So Long Ago, Nancy"