He’s also one of the most covered songwriters, with songs like “Suzanne” and “Hallelujah” registering several hundred different recordings alone. Nearly half a century and more than a dozen albums later, Cohen is one of the most celebrated and critically acclaimed artists of the era. A well-regarded poet from the late 1950s through the mid-’60s, it was Judy Collins who encouraged the middle-aged Canadian writer to try his hand at performing his own songs, and the rest is history. She also had a successful cover of Cohen’s “Suzanne”. It’s almost unbelievable now to think that we almost never heard Leonard Cohen, the singer. “Give me a Leonard Cohen afterworld/ So I can sigh eternally” “But I was caught, like a fleeting thought/ Stuck inside Leonard Cohen’s mind” “You moved in slow degrees/ A sudden memory/ You’re a Leonard Cohen song” We’re reposting it today in celebration of Leonard Cohen, who passed away yesterday.
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