Becoming Leonard Cohen: How this Wicklow man ended up leading his tribute band
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I was looking forward to interviewing Rob Doyle over afternoon tea and oranges (that come all the way from China) but things did not work out that way… The Wicklow townie now spends much of his time in Spain rather than Ireland, living a handy drive from the airport in Alicante. There he plots the progress of Cohen Unlimited, the tribute band which has become an unexpected hit with followers of the Canadian singer-songwriter who died back in 2016.
Pubs and holiday resorts are dripping these days with tribute bands re-creating the work of Cher, or Rod Stewart, or Elton John, or other luminaries of the pop world.
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