leonard cohen

Less than 2 weeks ago, I posted the lyrics to "Suzanne" by Leonard Cohen. Coincidentally, I stumbled across information about Leonard Cohen in the latest issue of The New Yorker magazine in the "Night Life" section. It reads:

"The great bard of Montreal returns to this newly restored Art Deco theatre for his first U.S. concert in fifteen years. Cohen, now seventy-four, published his debut book of poems "Let Us Compare Mythologies" in 1956, when Bob Dylan was only fifteen. He went on to write several more books (most notably, the ground-breaking novel "Beautiful Losers") before Judy Collins launched his music career with her 1966 rendition of his mystical, yearning love song "Suzanne." In the mid-nineties, the enigmatic Cohen largely retreated from the music world, abandoning live performances and living in a Zen monastery outside Los Angeles, where he was ordained as a Buddhist Monk. In 2006, after learning that his longtime personal manager had drained most of his life savings, he returned to the stage offering dark, melancholic masterpieces like "hallelujah" to a generation hungry for gnomic, religious wisdom and worldly storytelling."