Leonard Cohen
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Leonard Norman Cohen was a Canadian songwriter, singer, poet, and novelist. Themes commonly explored throughout his work include faith and mortality, isolation and depression, betrayal and redemption,
Cohen in 1988
Cohen in 1988
Cohen at Festival Internacional de Benicàssim, July 2008
2008 concert tour
Marianne Ihlen
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Marianne Christine Stang Ihlen was a Norwegian woman who was the first wife of author Axel Jensen and later the muse and girlfriend of Leonard Cohen for several years in the 1960s. She was the subject
Leonard Cohen
…In September 1960, Cohen bought a house on the Greek island of Hydra with $1,500 that he had inherited from his grandmother. Cohen lived there with Marianne Ihlen, with whom he was in a relationship for most of the 1960s. The song "So Long, Marianne" was written to and about her. In 2016, Ihlen died of leukemia…
Modified street name sign in November 2016 at the intersection of Marie-Anne Street and Saint-Dominique Street in Montreal following the death of Leonard Cohen