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Leonard Cohen nasceu em Montreal, província de Quebec, Canadá, de uma família judia de origem polaca. A sua infância foi marcada pela morte de seu pai quando Cohen tinha apenas 9 anos, fato que seria determinante para o desenvolvimento de uma depressão que o acompanharia durante boa parte da vida.
Aos 17 anos, ingressa na Universidade McGill e forma um trio de música country. Paralelamente, passa a escrever seus primeiros poemas, inspirado por autores como García Lorca.
Em 1956, lança seu primeiro livro de poesia, Let Us Compare Mythologies, seguido em 1961 por The Spice Box of Earth, que lhe conferiria fama internacional.

Após o sucesso do livro, Cohen decide viajar pela Europa, e acaba por fixar residência na ilha de Hidra, na Grécia, onde passa a viver junto com Marianne Jensen e seu filho, Axel.
Em 1963 lança The Favorite Game, sua primeira novela, seguida pelo livro de poemas Flowers for Hitler, em 1964, e pela sua segunda novela, Beautiful Losers, em 1966.
Já estabelecido como escritor, Cohen decide se tornar compositor. Para isso, muda-se para os Estados Unidos, onde conhece a cantora Judy Collins, que grava duas de suas composições (“Suzanne” e “Dress Rehearsal Rag”) em seu disco In My Life, de 1966.
No ano seguinte, Cohen participa do Newport Folk Festival, onde chama a atenção do produtor John Hammond, o mesmo que antes havia descoberto, dentre outros, Billie Holiday e Bob Dylan. Songs of Leonard Cohen, seu primeiro disco, é lançado no final do ano, sendo bem recebido por público e crítica.
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  • tomorrowsparty

    the older I'm getting, I seem to be liking Cohen more than Dylan. Dylan hides behind so much smoke and mirrors, but Cohen is always out there, naked for us all to see.

    13 Jun 21h50 Responder

  • ralfsu

    Dylan writes so much more consciously now that it totally destroys the magic of his lyrics in my opinion (which is strange because he also did that with John Wesley Harding and that album is just a slice of fried gold)... yet it works so well for Cohen, I absolutely envy his devotion to the craft.

    8 Jun 14h04 Responder

  • Metamorphic_

    That's from this site by the way: http://www.examiner.com/article/mutual-admiration-society-bob-dylan-leonard-cohen-and-that-hallelujah-song , also has other cool stories.

    5 Jun 10h34 Responder

  • Metamorphic_

    About the length of time it can take Cohen to write his songs there is a funny anecdote about Cohen and Dylan who met up at a cafe in Paris and discussed songwriting. Dylan really liked "Hallelujah" and asked Cohen how long it had taken him to write: "Leonard hesitates, and mutters something like “four or five years,” not liking to admit that versions of this song had been in the works for a whole lot longer, and that manuscript pages of revisions ran into the hundreds. As always, the process of composition had been long and difficult. Then, feeling the need for reciprocation, he asks Bob how long it had taken him to write “I and I.” “Oh,” says Bob, “about fifteen minutes."

    5 Jun 10h32 Responder

  • TheGreatChupon

    As to my prayer, which is often the same thing.

    5 Jun 0h30 Responder

  • ralfsu

    Various Positions is the soundtrack to my yearning

    4 Jun 12h15 Responder

  • Amber-Evil

    Closing Time <3

    4 Jun 2h56 Responder

  • TheGreatChupon

    Correction to my earlier shout, about Leonard not having written a mediocre line since the '60s: Jazz Police appeared in 1988, so I lied, but I'm pretty sure that's the only exception.

    3 Jun 14h32 Responder

  • Peteblueeyes

    "Songs of Love and Hate" would definitely be one of the 5 albums I would take to the island you never come back from!

    3 Jun 10h16 Responder

  • ralfsu

    "We'll be making love again. We'll be going down so deep the river's going to weep, and the mountain's going to shout Amen! It's coming like the tidal flood beneath the lunar sway, imperial, mysterious, in amorous array: democracy is coming to the U.S.A. "

    3 Jun 5h25 Responder

  • TheGreatChupon

    It's interesting too, because people like Bob Dylan and Neil Young are vehement that their best songs were written fast, Bob saying "you've got to program your brain not to think too much" and "just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as long as it takes to write it," and Neil using that great extended rabbit-hole metaphor in his talk with Patti Smith last year. Leonard offers a convincing alternate method, but his version is one in which the writing can take years! So either you get it fully-formed or you wait however long is necessary for the song to open up of its own accord. Either way, one gets a pretty clear sense that there is little that's effective inbetween...

    2 Jun 13h27 Responder

  • TheGreatChupon

    Some songs have even taken him decades! Literally! He said in a 2001 interview, in an answer to a question about songwriting advice, "The only thing I've learned is that if you stick with it long enough a song will eventually yield but 'long enough' is often an alarming duration. I'm speaking personally. Great songs have been written in minutes." But I think Leonard's attention to his craft is totally worth it. The man hasn't written a mediocre line since the '60s. It's truly amazing, and as far as I know there's no one else who works like that (and so successfully) either.

    2 Jun 13h18 Responder

  • ralfsu

    In some LC documentary it was mentioned that sometimes it takes him a whole year to write a single song... finding a suitable word for every spot is insanely important to him... and it shows in the best way possible. There is stunning specificness within his poetry!

    1 Jun 23h05 Responder

  • TheGreatChupon

    He's always so humble about it, calling himself a minor poet/artist—and I'll grant him the truth of that if you're keeping the entire world of art in consideration, which is his explanation—but as far as songwriters go, Leonard's one of the absolute best, no question whatsoever.

    1 Jun 18h13 Responder

  • BallerCraig

    Unique in the world.

    1 Jun 5h19 Responder

  • fedy98

    Леня наше все!

    30 Mai 20h34 Responder

  • augustofelipe

    Estoy enamorado de el

    26 Mai 10h14 Responder

  • Justaa

    I am totally in love with him!

    24 Mai 11h01 Responder

  • TheGreatChupon

    If one can live to be 78 and say such things with what sounds so like total sincerity, well, I guess this life trip needn't necessarily be quite so horrid after all.

    23 Mai 17h26 Responder

  • TheGreatChupon

    And he just seems to be such a genuinely warm-hearted, concerned and caring man. I've taken dearly to heart a recording of his Louisville show from a month and a half ago, and after the last song (a tremendous I Tried to Leave You), he bows off with the following valedictory: "Thanks so much, friends; drive carefully home. May you be surrounded by friends and family all the days of your life. If this is not your lot, may all the blessings find you in your solitude. Good night, dear friends, thank you so much!"

    23 Mai 4h43 Responder
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