In My Secret Life
| "My Secret Life" | ||||
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| Song by Leonard Cohen from the album Ten New Songs | ||||
| Released | 2001 | |||
| Genre | Jazz rock | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Length | 4:53 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Writer | Leonard Cohen | |||
| Producer | Sharon Robinson | |||
| Ten New Songs track listing | ||||
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"In My Secret Life" is a song written and performed by Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson. Bob Metzger plays the guitar. The song first appears on the album Ten New Songs, released in 2001.
Cohen first revealed he was working on a new song called 'My Secret Life' in 1988[1], although the song finally made it onto record in 2001. In addition to the album version of 4:53 minutes long, a promotional radio edit of 3:52 minutes was released by Sony Music Canada.[2]
[edit] Music Video
The music video for In my secret life was filmed in Montreal at Habitat 67. This building is famous for its futuristic take on architecture and was build by Jewish architect Moshe Safdie for Expo 67 in 1967 as his thesis at McGill University.
[edit] Covers and references
The song has been covered by Eric Burdon (on his 2004 album My Secret Life), as well as Katie Melua, Dominique Eade, Julian Thome, Till Brönner, Ariane Moffatt and Tapani Kansa amongst others.
Gershom Scholem, the eminent Jewish philosopher, referred to the Kabbalah as “the secret life of Judaism” [3] in a letter to Zalman Schocken in 1937.[clarification needed]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ de Lisle, Tim. 'Who held a gun to Leonard Cohen's head?' The Guardian, September 17, 2004.
- ^ LeonardCohenFiles.com CD SINGLES AND PROMOS 2001 - 2003
- ^ Skinner, Anthony David (Ed.) (2002). Gershom Scholem: A Life in Letters, 1914-1982 by Gershom Scholem. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674006423
