One of the first record albums I purchased was by Leonard Cohen. I bought it in 1970 and have enjoyed his poetry and music for over 45 years. He ranks up there with the great writers of our time.
The Poet of song
Thank you Leonard Cohen. You taught me. Words had great meaning and could come alive. You were the Poet of song. I saw you in concert in 1978 and 1979 in Germany. You were a legend to many already. The great Poet had left us. He shall never be forgotten. The word-men and word-women will hold dearly to his special song and voice. I miss you already Leonard Cohen. I hope you are singing in the tower of song.
Teacher as Transformer 
I was deeply saddened by Leonard’s death. I’d hoped against hope for one more CD after his most recent. I never had the opportunity to see him in concert but I have played his music for more than half my life, and my life is pretty long! Goodbye, goodbye.
I did not see him in concert either. PBS had a special from London I watch when it comes on.
RIP Leonard, we will miss you.
Leslie
We will.
Thank you for the reblogged. A legend had left us.
He has. I bought my first album of his 1970 and love his music/lyrics.
I was lucky. I was station in Germany from 1976-1980. The German introduced Cohen to me. I saw him two times in concert in 1978 and 1979. He was amazing. Jennifer Warner was his back-up. He played for 4 hours.
That would have been quite an experience. We saw Jennifer Warnes here in Edmonton 2 or 3 years ago and she did a number of songs from Famous Blue Raincoat.
He had many great young singers with him thoughout his career. Great talent draw talent to them.
He was a bit like Roy Orbison. I have watched Orbison’s PBS special with Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello playing guitar in his band and kd lang and Bonnie Raitt doing back up singing. You are so right that great attracts great.