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Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption, social and political conflict, sexual and romantic love, desire, regret, and loss. He was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Rock and Roll H…
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Born 21 September 1934 · Died 7 November 2016 · Q1276
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2026· 18 entries
“Since my own work requires a fair degree of solitary attention, I was grateful to Ms Lynch for looking after the business details,”
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“In this spirit she acquired considerable command over my finances.”
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“This has propelled us into incessant work,”
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“You know, God gave me a strong inner core, so I wasn”
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“I feel I have a huge posthumous career in front of me”
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“Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I”
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“I am joining my brothers fighting in the desert. I don”
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Published video “The official Leonard Cohen family tribute marking the 10th anniversary of Leonard Cohen’s passing.”.
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Published video “Leonard Cohen performing “The Partisan””.
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Published video “Leonard Cohen performing “Avalanche””.
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Published video “Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye. Leonard Cohen with Julie Felix // 1967”.
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Published video “Leonard Cohen - Never Any Good (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Leonard Cohen - The Great Event (Official Audio)”.
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Published video “"Sisters of Mercy"”.
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Published video “Leonard Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008 by Lou Reed. #leonardcohen”.
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Published video “Leonard Cohen - Who by Fire (Live in Dublin - Official Audio)”.
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Published video “Leonard Cohen - Closing Time (Live in Dublin - Official Audio)”.
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2024· 3 entries
The Guardian: This month’s best paperbacks: Leonard Cohen, Sigrid Nunez and more
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The Guardian: ‘Height of blasphemy’: Rufus Wainwright and Leonard Cohen estate oppose Trump use of Hallelujah
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The Guardian: Leonard Cohen will get us through the election despair | Brief letters
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2023· 6 entries
Released album “1979-12-08: In Concert, Birmingham Odeon, Birmingham, Britain”.
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Released album “1976-06-25: Montreux Jazz Festival, Casino de Montreux, Montreux, Switzerland,”.
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The Guardian: Leonard Cohen could shake it off like Taylor Swift | Brief letters
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The Guardian: Leonard Cohen heirs accuse former manager and lawyers of forgery
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The Guardian: Famous blue leotard: the Leonard Cohen dance show the singer never lived to see
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Rolling Stone magazine named Cohen the 103rd-greatest singer of all time
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2022· 6 entries
The Guardian: A Ballet of Lepers by Leonard Cohen review – intimations of immortality
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The Guardian: A Ballet of Lepers by Leonard Cohen review – violent literary beginnings
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The Guardian: A lyrical short story by Leonard Cohen: A Montreal poet goes looking for love in a raincoat
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The Guardian: Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song review – a thorough, respectful documentary
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The Guardian: Hallelujah! Leonard Cohen’s almighty struggle with rejected song that became a classic
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Released album “Hallelujah & Songs From His Albums”.
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2021· 2 entries
Released album “BBC Sessions 1968”.
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Released album “Music City USA”.
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2020· 3 entries
Released album “A Poet in Amsterdam: The Full 1980 and 1988 Broadcasts”.
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Released album “Absolutely Bass Voice”.
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Released album “Iceland '88 [Reykjavik 1988][Live]”.
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2019· 2 entries
Released album “Thanks for the Dance”.
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Released album “The Lost Sessions”.
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2018· 2 entries
Awarded Canada's Walk of Fame (2018).
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Released album “Austin City Limits”.
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2017· 3 entries
Released album “Upon a Smokey Evening”.
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Released album “Upon a Smokey Evening - 1979 - FM Broadcast from The Beethovenhalle Bohn”.
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Released album “1967 Copyright Collection”.
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2016· 22 entries
Died 2016-11-07.
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Released album “You Want It Darker”.
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Released album “Toronto ’88”.
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“Tajemny akord kiedyś brzmiałPan cieszył się, gdy Dawid grał,Ale muzyki dziś tak nikt nie czuje.Kwarta, kwinta – tak to szłoRaz wyżej w dur, raz niżej w mollNieszczęsny król ułożył Alleluja!Alleluja! Alleluja!Alleluja! Alleluja!”
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Released album “Once More for Marianne”.
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“Zacząłem pisać piosenki, bo chciałem zarabiać więcej pieniędzy.”
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“Seks jest sportem młodych i sekretem starców.”
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“Prawdziwym wyzwoleniem jest spojrzenie na sztukę z perspektywy, która nie jest własną.”
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“People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.”
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“Pamiętam, jak w latach 70. moja muzyka była krytykowana jako przygnębiająca i mówiono, że moje płyty powinny być sprzedawane z żyletkami, bo to dobra muzyka do podcinania sobie żył.”
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“I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work — just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege.”
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“Miłość zawsze myli mi się z pożądaniem. Oczywiście, głęboko w człowieku jest także coś więcej niż pożądanie, coś, czego nie da się opisać, a co odzywa się od czasu do czasu.”
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“Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I was described as for a long, long time; you know, people said I only knew three chords when I knew five.”
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“Gdybym wiedział, skąd się biorą dobre piosenki, czerpałbym stamtąd częściej.”
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“And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.”
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“Czasy, w których żyjemy, skłaniają do introspekcji. Mamy naturalną tendencję do zagłębiania się w siebie. Przeciwstawiamy się jej jednak, powodowani lękiem przed nieznanym. Boimy się, że okażemy się zupełnie inni, niż nam się wydaje. A jednak trzeba próbować. I krzepiąca jest myśl, że jest ktoś, kto już to zrobił przed nami. Ktoś komu się udało.”
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“Chciałbym, żeby moje piosenki przetrwały tyle czasu, ile przeciętne volvo. Czyli około 30 lat.”
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“Ukaż swą urodę, co jak ogień skrzypiec brzmi.Przetańcz moją rozpacz, ukojenie ześlij mi.Niczym ptak oliwną mą gałązkę nieś.Tańczmy po miłości kres.Tańczmy po miłości kres.”
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“Kim jestem, ty wieszTy znasz słońca blaskJa zmieniam się wciążDzisiaj nikt, jutro ktośRaz po raz.”
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Shortly after Cohen's death, that "Altman's and Cohen's legacies would forever be linked by McCabe
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“A Jane do dziś kosmyk włosów ma twychWiem, że gdy dawałeś go jejMyślałeś o tym, by zwiać,Lecz niełatwo jest zwiać…”
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“Here I stand, I'm your man.”
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2015· 3 entries
Awarded Companion of the Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec (2015).
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Released album “Can’t Forget: A Souvenir of the Grand Tour”.
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Released album “Opus Collection”.
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2014· 6 entries
Released album “Live in Dublin”.
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Released album “Popular Problems”.
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Released album “Leonard Cohen & Canadian Poetry”.
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Released album “From the Shadows”.
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That "The film is unimaginable to me without the Cohen songs, which function as these mournful interstitials that unify the entire movie
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Released album “LIVE in Austin, Texas 1988”.
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2013· 4 entries
Released album “Leonard's Last Show, Live in Auckland, December 21, 2013”.
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Released album “2013-06-21 O2 Arena, London, UK”.
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Awarded Juno Award for Artist of the Year (2013).
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Awarded Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year (2013).
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2012· 6 entries
Released album “Original Album Classics”.
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Awarded Prix Denise-Pelletier (2012).
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Released album “Angels at My Shoulder-Live 1993”.
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Released ep “Live in Fredericton”.
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Released album “Old Ideas”.
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Lynch was jailed for 18 months and given five years' probation for harassing Cohen after he dismissed her
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2011· 6 entries
Released album “The Complete Columbia Albums Collection”.
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Released album “The Complete Studio Albums Collection”.
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Awarded Glenn Gould Prize (2011).
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Awarded Princess of Asturias Literary Prize (2011).
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Cohen was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for literature
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Received one of the Prince of Asturias Awards for literature and the ninth Glenn Gould Prize
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2010· 4 entries
Released album “Songs From the Road”.
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Released album “Sint-Pietersplein, Gent BE”.
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Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2010).
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Awarded Songwriters Hall of Fame (2010).
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2009· 7 entries
Released album “Live at the Isle of Wight 1970”.
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “Live in London”.
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Released album “2009-02-19: Beacon Theater, New York, NY”.
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Released album “Back to the Roads”.
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Released album “Hallelujah - The Essential Leonard Cohen Album Collection”.
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The performances were awarded Ireland's Meteor Music Award as the best international performance of the year
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2008· 6 entries
Released album “The Collection”.
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Awarded Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec (2008).
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Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2008).
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In Fredericton, New Brunswick, and was extended until late 2010
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Recited the poem "Since You've Asked" on the album Born to the Breed: A Tribute to Judy Collins
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Released album “10 największych ballad”.
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2007· 4 entries
Released album “Book of Longing”.
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Awarded Grammy Award for Album of the Year for River: The Joni Letters (2007).
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Recited "The Sound of Silence" on the album Tribute to Paul Simon: Take Me to the Mardi Gras and "The Jungle Line" by Joni Mitchell, accompanied by Herbie Hancock on piano, on Hancock's Grammy-winning album River: The
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“My friend Brian Johnson said of me that I”
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2005· 1 entry
Cohen discovered that his manager had stolen most of his money and sold his publishing rights, prompting a return to touring to recoup his losses
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2004· 2 entries
Released album “Dear Heather”.
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Released album “Live at Montreux 07-09-1985”.
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2003· 3 entries
Released album “Mojo Presents...An Introduction to Leonard Cohen”.
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Awarded Companion of the Order of Canada (2003).
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Released album “Songs of Leonard Cohen / Songs of Love and Hate”.
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2002· 1 entry
Released album “The Essential Leonard Cohen”.
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2001· 4 entries
Released album “Ten New Songs”.
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Released album “The Best”.
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With the release of Ten New Songs, a major hit in Canada and Europe
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With the release of Ten New Songs, featuring a major influence from producer and co-composer Sharon Robinson
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2000· 3 entries
Released album “Hit Collection”.
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Released album “Field Commander Cohen: Tour of 1979”.
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Columbia released an album of live recordings of songs from the 1979 tour, titled Field Commander Cohen: Tour of 1979
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1999· 1 entry
The day they were recording "Villanelle for our Time" (released on 2004's Dear Heather album)
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1998· 2 entries
Was "like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very
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Released album “Blossoms of Heaven, Ashes of Hell”.
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1997· 2 entries
Released album “More Best of Leonard Cohen”.
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Cohen oversaw the selection and release of the More Best of Leonard Cohen album, which included a previously unreleased track, "Never Any Good", and an experimental piece "The Great Event"
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1996· 1 entry
Cohen was ordained as a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk and took the Dharma name Jikan, meaning "silence"
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year (1994).
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Cohen retreated to the Mt
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1993· 12 entries
Awarded Governor General's Performing Arts Award (1993).
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Awarded Juno Award for Video of the Year (1993).
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Released album “1993-05-21: Kongresshalle, Zurich, Switzerland”.
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Released album “Cohen Live: Leonard Cohen in Concert”.
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Released album “Above the Soul”.
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Cohen also published his book of selected poems and songs, Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, on which he had worked since 1989
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Cohen published Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs, and in 2006, after 10 years of delays, additions, and rewritings, Book of Longing
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Released album “1993-05-21: First We Take Manhatten: Kongresshaus, Zürich, Switzerland”.
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“At our best, we inhabit a biblical landscape, and this is where we should situate ourselves without apology. [...] That biblical landscape is our urgent invitation ... Otherwise, it”
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Released album “No Cure for Love”.
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Released album “Live at Montreux 1976”.
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Released album “At the Beeb”.
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1992· 5 entries
Released album “The Future”.
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Released album “Los 60 de los 60”.
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Released album “Diamonds in the Mine Field”.
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Cohen released The Future, which urges (often in terms of biblical prophecy) perseverance, reformation, and hope in the face of grim prospects
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Cohen released its follow-up, The Future, which had dark lyrics and references to political and social unrest
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Canadian Music Hall of Fame (1991).
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “So Long, Marianne”.
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1988· 3 entries
Released album “1988-06-24: Laugardalsholl, Reykjavik, Iceland”.
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Released album “I’m Your Man”.
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Marked Cohen's turn to synthesized productions
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1987· 2 entries
Recorded an album of Cohen songs, Famous Blue Raincoat
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Jennifer Warnes's tribute album Famous Blue Raincoat helped restore Cohen's career in the US
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1985· 3 entries
Released album “1985-07-09: Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland”.
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Released album “Heart Housed in Thorn-Bush”.
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Released album “1985-07-06: Arkadenhof Vienna, Austria”.
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1984· 2 entries
Released album “Various Positions”.
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And he sang it during his Europe tour in 1985
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “Highlights”.
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1980· 3 entries
Released album “1980-11-24: Mann Auditorium, Tel Aviv, Israel”.
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“Someone who in the face of great derision, has always supported me.”
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Released album “Liebesträume: Leonard Cohen singt seine schönsten Lieder”.
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1979· 3 entries
Released album “Recent Songs”.
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Cohen returned with the more traditional Recent Songs, which blended his acoustic style with jazz, East Asian, and Mediterranean influences
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Cohen returned with the more traditional Recent Songs, which blended his acoustic style with jazz and East Asian and Mediterranean influences
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1978· 2 entries
Published his first book of poetry in many years, Death of a Lady's Man (not to be confused with the album he released the previous year, the similarly titled Death of a Ladies' Man)
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Cohen published a volume of poetry with the subtly revised title Death of a Lady's Man
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Death of a Ladies’ Man”.
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1976· 5 entries
Released album “1976-06:25: Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland”.
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Released album “1976-06-05: L'Olympia, Paris, France”.
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“the Egyptians and the Israelis”
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Cohen embarked on a new major European tour with a new band and changes in his sound and arrangements, again, in support of his The Best of Leonard Cohen release (in Europe retitled as Greatest Hits)
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Cohen said during the concert that his now famous song was written for "the Egyptians and the Israelis", though he wrote and performed the song for the Israeli soldiers during the war, and the song originally contained t
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1975· 1 entry
Released album “The Best of Leonard Cohen / Greatest Hits”.
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1974· 4 entries
Released album “New Skin for the Old Ceremony”.
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In Europe, the US and Canada in late 1974 and early 1975, in support of Cohen's record New Skin for the Old Ceremony
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Cohen released a new album, New Skin for the Old Ceremony, with songs inspired by the war
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“We would just drop into little places, like a rocket site and they would shine their flashlights at us and we would sing a few songs. Or they would give us a jeep and we would go down the road towards the front and wherever we saw a few soldiers waiting for a helicopter or something like that we would sing a few songs. And maybe back at the airbase we would do a little concert, maybe with amplifiers. It was very informal, and you know, very intense.”
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1973· 3 entries
Released album “Live Songs”.
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When Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on the Yom Kippur day, Cohen arrived in Israel
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Columbia Records released Cohen's first concert album, Live Songs
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1972· 1 entry
Toured again in Europe and Israel, captured on film by Tony Palmer and eventually released in 2010 under the title 'Bird on a Wire'
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1971· 2 entries
Film director Robert Altman featured the songs "The Stranger Song", "Winter Lady", and "Sisters of Mercy", originally recorded for Songs of Leonard Cohen, in McCabe & Mrs
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Released album “Songs of Love and Hate”.
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1970· 1 entry
Cohen toured for the first time, in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and appeared at the Isle of Wight Festival
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1969· 1 entry
Released album “Songs From a Room”.
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1968· 4 entries
Released album “The Complete BBC Recording”.
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Awarded Governor General's Award for English-language poetry or drama for Selected Poems 1956–1968 (1968).
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Awarded Governor General's Literary Awards (1968).
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Where he sang a duet from the album with Julie Felix
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1967· 3 entries
Released album “Songs of Leonard Cohen”.
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“I had a very Messianic childhood. I was told I was a descendant of Aaron, the high priest.”
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Disappointed with his lack of success as a writer, Cohen moved to the United States to pursue a career as a folk music singer–songwriter
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1966· 3 entries
Wrote "Suzanne", which was performed the same year by The Stormy Clovers, and recorded by Judy Collins on her album In My Life
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Cohen also published Parasites of Heaven, a book of poems
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CBC-TV producer Andrew Simon produced a local Montreal current-affairs program, Seven on Six, and offered Cohen a position as host
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1965· 2 entries
From the National Film Board called Ladies and Gentlemen
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“Ladies and Gentlemen, Leonard Cohen”
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1957· 1 entry
Working various odd jobs and focusing on the writing of fiction and poetry, including the poems for his next book, The Spice-Box of Earth (1961), which was the first book that Cohen published through the Canadian publish
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1955· 1 entry
Studied at McGill University, Bachelor of Arts (1951–1955).
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1951· 1 entry
Cohen enrolled at McGill University, where he became a brother of Zeta Beta Tau
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1948· 1 entry
To Westmount High School, where he studied music and poetry
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1934· 1 entry
Born 1934-09-21.
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1927· 1 entry
And was the daughter of Talmudic writer and rabbi Solomon Klonitsky-Kline
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