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29.giugno.2012

Leonard Cohen Defends his Gloomy Songs

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I guess it’s legitimate not to like someone’s work, but somehow those descriptions of my work got into the computer, you know, there was “suicide”, or “bedsit”, or “gloom”, “depressive”, “melancholy”, and every time they’d tap out my name those descriptions would come up. You know, as though seriousness had no place in song. The songs we love best are the sad songs.

Leonard Cohen in a BBC Radio 1 programme (UK), August 7, 1994.
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29.giugno.2012

leonardcohenminute: Photograph by David Boswell, Last.FM, year unknown.

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Photograph by David Boswell, Last.FM, year unknown.
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28.giugno.2012

A Leonard Cohen Minute: Rolling Stone's Review of Leonard's Cohen First Album

A Leonard Cohen Minute: Rolling Stone's Review of Leonard's Cohen First Album

Leonard Cohen

Songs of Leonard Cohen

By ARTHUR SCHMIDT

MARCH 9, 1968

…The record as a whole is another matter — I don’t think I could ever tolerate all of it. There are three brilliant songs, one good one, three qualified bummers, and three are the flaming shits.

The problem is that,…
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