Isle of Wight Festival, Afton Down, Isle of Wight, Britain, 8-27-1970 to 8-30-1970 - 8-30-1970: Part 8: Leonard Cohen

This is the very last of the albums I've posting from the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, unless more music emerges with worthy sound quality. (And I know there's more out there, so please help if you can!) 

Many people got the impression that Jimi Hendrix was the last act of the festival. But there actually were three more big name acts who came after him: Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, and Richie Havens. It was about 2 A.M. when Baez started her set, and about dawn when Havens finished his set. I don't know what the festival organizers were thinking putting on three mellow folk artists after the hard rocking Hendrix, but that's what they did.

We only have rough audience bootleg recordings of the sets by Baez and Havens. But Cohen's full set is presented here in excellent sound, due to the fact that it was officially released in 2008 as "Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970."

Here's what Murray Lerner, director of "Message to Love," had to say about Cohen's set: “[Cohen] said some very nice things about the radical movement of the time: 'We’re a small nation, but we're going to grow. We need our own land.' I remember he had a lot of beautiful women singing with him – I was jealous. He had that kind of attraction, I think - the suffering poet [laughs]."

This album is an hour and 23 minutes long. 

UPDATE: On September 6, 2026, I updated the mp3 download file. The music is exactly the same. However, I changed the album title from "Part 6" to "Part 8," and renumbered all the songs, because I found a set that comes before this that I'd previously missed.

130 talk (Leonard Cohen)
131 Bird on the Wire (Leonard Cohen)
132 talk (Leonard Cohen)
133 So Long, Marianne (Leonard Cohen)
134 talk (Leonard Cohen)
135 You Know Who I Am (Leonard Cohen)
136 talk (Leonard Cohen)
137 Lady Midnight (Leonard Cohen)
138 talk (Leonard Cohen)
139 One of Us Cannot Be Wrong (Leonard Cohen)
140 The Stranger Song (Leonard Cohen)
141 talk (Leonard Cohen)
142 Tonight Will Be Fine (Leonard Cohen)
143 talk (Leonard Cohen)
144 Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye (Leonard Cohen)
145 Diamonds in the Mine (Leonard Cohen)
146 Suzanne (Leonard Cohen)
147 talk (Leonard Cohen)
148 Sing Another Song, Boys (Leonard Cohen)
149 The Partisan [La Complainte du Partisan] (Leonard Cohen)
150 talk (Leonard Cohen)
151 Famous Blue Raincoat (Leonard Cohen)
152 talk (Leonard Cohen)
153 Seems So Long Ago, Nancy (Leonard Cohen)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Av4U55Zd

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/eEA6ppzlKBvKWZi/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.