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Leonard Norman Cohen [lɛnərd ˈkoʊən], CC, GOQ war ein kanadischer Singer-Songwriter, Schriftsteller, Dichter und Maler.

Nachdem Cohen sich in Kanada bereits mit Gedichten und Romanen einen Namen gemacht und mit dem Kultroman Beautiful Losers einen internationalen Bestseller gelandet hatte, veröffentlichte er 1967 sein erstes Album, Songs of Leonard Cohen. Die Platte mit melodisch einfachen Folksongs war kommerziell erfolgreich und leitete eine fast 50 Jahre andauernde Musikkarriere ein, unterbrochen von Phasen des Rückzugs. Während seines künstlerischen Wirkens von 1956 bis 2016 schrieb er zahlreiche Gedichtsammlungen, aber auch Romane und brachte unter anderem vierzehn Studioalben sowie einige Livealben und Kompilationen heraus. Sein letztes Album You Want It Darker erschien am 21. Oktober 2016, drei Wochen vor seinem Tod.

Seine melancholisch gefärbten, poetischen Songs wurden von zahlreichen Künstlern gecovert. Zu den bekanntesten zählen Suzanne, Famous Blue Raincoat, Bird on a Wire und So Long, Marianne zu Beginn seiner Karriere sowie in den 1980er Jahren First We Take Manhattan und Hallelujah. In seinem musikalischen Werk werden unter anderem Liebe, Religion, Tod und menschliches Leid thematisiert.

Cohen erhielt zahlreiche Preise und Auszeichnungen, darunter mehrere Juno Awards, den Order of Canada, den Ordre national du Québec sowie den Prinz-von-Asturien-Preis in der Sparte Literatur und 2015 den Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik im Bereich Pop, Rock und Jazz für sein Lebenswerk sowie posthum einen Grammy. 2006 wurde er in die Canadian Music Hall of Fame und 2010 in die Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame sowie 2008 in die Rock and Roll Hall of Fame aufgenommen.

✵ 21. September 1934 – 7. November 2016
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“Rust rust rust
in the engines of love and time”

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Leonard Cohen buch Flowers for Hitler

"Front Lawn", Flowers for Hitler (1964)

“Like any dealer he was watching for the card
that is so high and wild
he'll never need to deal another.
He was just some Joseph looking for a manger.”

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"The Stranger Song"
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)

“I told you when I came I was a stranger.”

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"The Stranger Song"
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)

“We're drinking and we're dancing
but there's nothing really happening.
The place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night.”

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"Closing Time"
The Future (1992)

“Here I stand, I'm your man.”

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"I'm Your Man"
I'm Your Man (1988)

“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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As quoted in Los Angeles Times (24 September 1995)

“You can say that I've grown bitter but of this you can be sure.
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor.
And there's a mighty Judgement coming
but I may be wrong…”

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"Tower Of Song"
I'm Your Man (1988)

“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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Interview with BBC Radio 1FM (1994)

“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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Interview with BBC Radio 1FM (1994)

“They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
For trying to change the system from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them
First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin.”

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"First We Take Manhattan" (written in 1986) - Leonard Cohen video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTTC_fD598A - Jennifer Warnes & Leonard Cohen video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0rZ2CPCYBQ
I'm Your Man (1988)

“God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is alive. Magic is afoot. God is afoot. Magic is alive. Alive is afoot. Magic never died. God never sickened. Many poor men lied. Many sick men lied. Magic never weakened. Magic never hid. Magic always ruled. God is afoot. God was ruler though his funeral lengthened. Though his mourners thickened Magic never fled…”

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Leonard Cohen buch Beautiful Losers

Beautiful Losers (1966)

“This is the very contrary of dropping out. Most people can't wait to get home to their house or apartment and shut that door and turn on the TV. To me, that's dropping out.”

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On his living at a Zen center, as quoted in Los Angeles Times (24 September 1995)

“But I’m stubborn as those garbage bags
that time cannot decay,
I’m junk but I’m still holding up
this little wild bouquet:
Democracy is coming to the U. S. A.”

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"Democracy"
The Future (1992)

“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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As quoted in "2011's Prince of Asturias Prize for Letters" http://www.fpa.es/en/awards/2011/leonard-cohen-1/speech/

“And sometimes when the night is slow
The wretched and the meek
We gather up our hearts and go
A Thousand Kisses Deep.”

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"A Thousand Kisses Deep" (2001)
Other Lyrics

“Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyesI thought it was there for good so I never triedAnd Jane came by with a lock of your hairShe said that you gave it to herThat night that you planned to go clearDid you ever go clear?”

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Famous Blue Raincoat
Songs of Love and Hate (1971)

“It was only when you walked away I saw you had the perfect ass. Forgive me for not falling in love with your face or your conversation.”

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Leonard Cohen buch The Energy of Slaves

The Energy of Slaves (1972)

“Everybody knows that the boat is leaking.
Everybody knows that the captain lied...
And everybody knows that you're in trouble...
Everybody knows it's coming apart.
Take one last look...Before it blows.
Everybody knows”

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"Everybody Knows" Leonard Cohen and collaborator Sharon Robinson.
I'm Your Man (1988)

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