Leonard Cohen, Epic and Enigmatic Songwriter, Is Dead at 82 - The New York Times
Larry Rohter
Cohen’s sophisticated, magnificently succinct lyrics, with their meditations on love sacred and profane, were widely admired by other artists and gave him a reputation as, to use the phrase his record company concocted for an advertising campaign in the early 1970s, “the master of erotic despair.
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