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The Best of Leonard Cohen

by Leonard Cohen

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Album review

Leonard Cohen is famous as a major seller in much of the world outside the U.S., the Canadian singer-songwriter's adoptive home; in Europe, this album's title is Greatest Hits. Even listeners barely familiar with Cohen's name will know "Suzanne" and "Bird on a Wire," but those oft-covered numbers are the least of it. The former novelist's mission as a wry, resigned troubadour is better reflected in songs like "Chelsea Hotel No. 2," a remembrance of Janis Joplin with a devastating closing line, and "Who by Fire," which updates a Jewish prayer. --Rickey Wright


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About the artist

Leonard Cohen, CC (born September 21, 1934 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a poet, novelist, and singer-songwriter. His musical career has largely overshadowed his prior work as a poet and novelist, although he has continued to publish poetry sporadically after his breakthrough in the music industry. Musically, Cohen's early songs are based in ...

Track list

  1. Suzanne
  2. Sisters of Mercy
  3. So Long, Marianne
  4. Bird on a Wire
  5. Lady Midnight
  6. The Partisan - Leonard Cohen, Marly, Anna
  7. Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
  8. Famous Blue Raincoat
  9. Last Year's Man
  10. Chelsea Hotel No. 2
  11. Who by Fire
  12. Take This Longing