1 – His ‘Hallelujah’ song is takes places on the top of the most covered songs ever
From Jeff Buckley to Alicia Keys, lots of singer covered this song and beside that, it is one of the most performed songs in sound competitions
2 – His all albums hit the top regularly in Norway Lists. No doubt, his dearie is from Norway and this situation has a part in this success.
3- His grandfather Lyon Cohen is the first president of Jewish Congress in Canada. He was born in Poland in 1868 and moved to Canada. In Canada worked as a businessman and made studies about judaism. He was selected as first president of Jewish Congress.
4- He gave Lorca as a name to his daughter with the inspriation that he took from famous Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca who was his idol.
Spanish Poet Lorca, was born in 1898, is accepted as the most important poet of his age and he was killed by nationalistes in the beginning of Spanish Civil War.
5 – The inspiration of his the most popular song is not love, it is jewish massacre
“Dance me to the end of love” dated 1984,was covered lots oftimes and still the most known song. Poland-born LeonardCohen, clarified that the inspiration of this song is Nazi Camps and the tortures after massacre.
6- “The heart goes on cooking, sizzling like shish kebab.” was his favorite description. From1977 to 2001, he repeated this sentences inhis lots of interviews
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7- He caught a chance to show his abilities to famous headhunte John Hammond
John Hammond used to work in Columbia Records. He signed a contract with Bob Dylan and discovered Bruce Springsteen. He required to play a song from Leonard Cohen intheir interview and Leonard Cohend played six or seven songs and he was praised by producter. In following 1-2 weeks, they started to work together.
8- He was vegetarian between 1965-1968
However someone claimed that he tried to back veganism, it was unable to exceed being rumour. Already according to someone, it was a trying with 60’s hippy spirit.
9- He clarified that he regretted to make sexual refer to Janis Joplin in “Chelsea Hotel No:2”
Also his sentence “We are ugly but we have music” became a slogan
10- He is the inventor of the coctail named Red Needle. Red Needle includes tequila, soda waterand cranberry juice.
11- His lots of songs used assoundtracks in movies but no doubt the most popular is Natural Born Killers. The impression of the movie made Leonard Cohen popular againin 90’s.
12- The reason of havinga unique vocal is using his own voice in back vocal.
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