He's one of the most gifted lyricists of his day, but Leonard Cohen's list of favourite folk songwriters is just as impressive.

While we might now recognise Leonard Cohen as one of the greatest songwriters to ever exist, originally, he struggled to get ...

“Suzanne.” “Bird on a Wire.” “Hallelujah.” “Everybody Knows.” We could go on and on with a list of Leonard Cohen songs that have become nothing less than modern standards thanks to his immense ...

You’d think that covering Leonard Cohen would be easy. After all, the source material was always rich and resonant. And his singing voice didn’t have a ton of range, certainly not anything near what ...

Leonard Cohen’s signature song, “Hallelujah,” had its journey to music immortality stopped almost at birth by a record executive. The chief of Cohen’s label, Columbia, vetoed the finished album ...

It’s the singer, not the song; or is it the other way around? My answer: depends on the song. The 2021 documentary Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song explores the Canadian singer-songwriter ...

It’s not every day you hear Abraham’s Hebrew words to God while watching TV — particularly not after sequences where waifish movie stars commit grisly murders. And yet, “You Want It Darker,” the ...

Cohen spent months in rehearsal with a band, fine-tuning his songs as he now wanted to play them—more quietly, more elegantly than ever. In 2008, at 73, he went back out on the road. Other than at a ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A rare handwritten manuscript by Leonard Cohen is set to go under the ...