NEWS DIGEST: Tuesday, March 11

1:54 PM GMT 11/03/2008

Leonard Cohen has announced the details of his 2008 world tour - his first since 1993.

The jaunt begins in Toronto on June 6 and sees the legendary singer/songwriter hitting cities throughout the UK and Europe, including a slot at Glastonbury Festival on June 29.

The news comes hot on the heels of Cohen's induction into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall Of Fame last night (March 10).

The current dates look like this:

Toronto Sony Centre For The Performing Arts (June 6/7)
Dublin IMMA (June 14/15)
Manchester Opera House (17-20)
Montreal Place des Arts (23-26)
Glastonbury Festival (29)
Oslo, Norway (July 1)
Helsingborg Open Air (3)
Copenhagen Rosenborg Castle (5)
Arhuus Radhus Parken (6)
Montreux Jazz Festival (8)
Lyon Festival (9)
Bruges Cactus (10)
Amsterdam Westerdam (12)
Edinburgh Castle (16)
London O2 Arena (17)
Lisbon Passeio Maritimo (19)
Benicassim Festival (20)
Nice Jazz Festival (22)
Lorrach Stimmen De Welt (25)
Lucca Summer Festival (27)
Athens Lykabettus Theatre (29)
Ledbury The Big Chill (August 3)
Istanbul Arena (5/6)
Prague Castle (10)
Budapest Sziget Festival (12)
Girona Cap Roig (14/15)
Vienna Opera House (28/29)

For more info and ticket details, click HERE.

Of course, Mr Cohen wasn't the only artist to be inducted into that big glass hutch in Cleveland. Madonna, The Dave Clark Five, Iggy & The Stooges and John Mellencamp were also given lifetime membership at the ceremony in New York, with Detroit's finest exponents of mean, lean freak-out rock performing covers of two Madonna songs - Burning Up and Ray Of Light.

Radiohead will play a free gig for BBC Radio 2 on April 1. To get your hand on tickets call 08700 100 200 - winners will be chosen at random. The show will take place within the confines of BBC's Radio Theatre at Broadcasting House in London.

And finally...here's an excitable Iggy Pop tearing things up before a Madonna show in 2005.