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Leonard Cohen on the road to singing sensation
Broadcast Date: May 8, 1966
Despite his success as a writer, Leonard Cohen finds it hard to pay the rent. He decides to give music a try because Cohen thought he could make more money as a musician. "The song seized me and the appetite for reaching many people seized me." Cohen has always loved music. At 17, he had a country-western trio called the Buckskin Boys."I always thought of myself as a singer," he tells Beryl Fox in this 1966 interview on CBC's This Hour Has Seven Days, "and kind of got side-tracked to literature." He leaves the Greek island of Hydra in 1966 for Nashville and by Christmas of 1967, Cohen releases his remarkable debut album, The Songs of Leonard Cohen.
Leonard Cohen on the road to singing sensation
• Leonard Cohen admitted to being completely obsessed with women ever since he could remember.• "You have to write about something. Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song." - Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen on the road to singing sensation
Medium: Television
Program: This Hour has Seven Days
Broadcast Date: May 8, 1966
Guest(s): Leonard Cohen
Host: Beryl Fox, Patrick Watson
Duration: 9:27
Last updated:
Feb. 13, 2009
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ON THE OTHER HAND, A LOT OF WOMEN I KNOW ARE OBSESSED WITH LEONARD TOO
Submitted by: JOHN WORKMAN
I just "Discovered" Leonard Cohen, just turned 62 and lived here all my life. EVERYTHING resonates and makes sense to me. Yes, he was in his youth, a bit raunchy. Wish we had the courage. He absolutely fills me with love.
Submitted by: Diane Fontaine