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Pop prize will eat itself

Not really an orchestra, or classical, Flight Facilities are a symbol of the strange ways of the ARIA Awards.

Like something from Alice In Wonderland, the ARIAs – Australia's premier music awards – you are whatever genre you say you are, even if it makes no sense.

For Leonard Cohen, the end came with a fall in the night

Leonard Cohen in concert at Melbourne's Rod Laver Arena, 2009.

When Leonard Cohen's family announced last week that he had died at 82, it gave no cause. Although the poet and songwriter had been open about his failing health in recent months, fans knew little other than what The New Yorker reported in its weekly radio show, that Cohen had been battling cancer.