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Leonard Cohen

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Born in Montreal in 1934 into a Conservative Jewish family, at fifteen came upon a book of poetry by Lorca, which “ruined” his life, claims Cohen, meaning it launched him into a lifetime dedicated to poetry. By the mid- 1950s, however, he also had discovered the music of Ray Charles, Hank Williams, and Elvis Presley and formed his own country and western band, The Buckskin Boys. Ten years later, having realised how “Dylan was setting poetry to music” he recorded his first album of timeless, transcendent, life-affirming compositions, The Songs of Leonard Cohen…

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