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He was, on a Dansette record player, my Sisters constant companion through the 1960s and 1970s. Lots of memories....

Sad news "Suzanne takes you down" forever in my head, he wrote some extraordinary music. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX0CfFdk-jw

2016 appears to have had more than its fair share of losses....yet another legend moves on....as with so many other musicians, they do leave behind a great legacy of work, some of which altered peoples thinking and lives over the years. May he RIP

Now might be a good time for Donald Trump to reflect on the lyrics of "Democracy" from Cohen's album The Future...

It's coming to America first
The cradle of the best and of the worst
It's here they got the range
And the machinery for change
And it's here they got the spiritual thirst
It's here the family's broken
And it's here the lonely say
That the heart has got to open
In a fundamental way
Democracy is coming to the USA

Sail on, sail on
Oh mighty ship of State
To the shores of need
Past the reefs of greed
Through the squalls of hate
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on

It will be a long time before the world sees anyone with his talent again.

So long.

His last letter to Marianne Ihlen....read to her a day or so before she passed away on 29 July this year.

“Well Marianne it’s come to this time when we are really so old and our bodies are falling apart and I think I will follow you very soon.
Know that I am so close behind you that if you stretch out your hand, I think you can reach mine.
And you know that I’ve always loved you for your beauty and your wisdom, but I don’t need to say anything more about that because you know all about that.
But now, I just want to wish you a very good journey.
Goodbye old friend.
Endless love, see you down the road.”

So sad, so beautiful....
Words I'll never forget.

Another version of Suzanne with Judy Collins in 1976.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toEk9DaLrgs

And you want to travel with her and you want to travel blind, and you know she's half crazy but that's why you want to be there..

He's beside her for eternity now

One of the most important musicians and poets of my time.

I can recommend his CD "Live in London"
RIP