“Anthem” by Leonard Cohen

"Anthem" comes from The Future, the ninth studio album Leonard Cohen released in 1992, a record he wrote and cut while the Berlin Wall fell and Los Angeles erupted in riots, and one that carries his sense of a world coming apart at the seams. Cohen wrote the song on his own and produced it with Rebecca De Mornay, and the arrangement is credited to the pair of them and Yoav Goren.

Cohen sings lead, with Bob Metzger on bass and electric guitar, Steve Meador on drums and Lenny Castro on percussion. The album around it ran close to an hour, his longest to that point, drew rapturous reviews and finally won over an American audience that had long shrugged at his records.

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