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Cohen explained that he wrote the song partly about the break-up of his own long-term relationship with the Los Angeles graphic artist Suzanne Elrod in 1978. In an interview for the 1979 Harry Rasky documentary film The Song of Leonard Cohen, he said: [4] "The Gypsy’s Wife" was one of the last and swiftest songs I’ve written.
Cohen was born September 18, 1972, in Montreal, but spent many years of his childhood living with his American expat mother, Suzanne Elrod, in Paris and in the south of France, after his parents separated. [1] [2] He spent parts of his childhood on the Greek island Hydra, in Greenwich Village, and in Los Angeles. [3]
Leonard Norman Cohen was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in the Montreal anglophone enclave of Westmount, Quebec, on September 21, 1934.His Lithuanian Jewish mother, Marsha ("Masha") Klonitsky (1905–1978), [3] [4] emigrated to Canada in 1927 and was the daughter of Talmudic writer and rabbi Solomon Klonitsky-Kline.
A deep dive into the origin story of the singer's best-known song — and its unlikely ascension into the pop canon — doubles as a portrait of an artist as an accidental genius
Susan Lynn Elrod (born June 13, 1963) is an American professor, scholar, university administrator and the sixth chancellor of Indiana University South Bend. Early life and education [ edit ]
Marianne Christine Stang Ihlen (Norwegian: [mɑrɪˈɑ̂nːə ˈîːln̩]; 18 May 1935 – 28 July 2016) [nb 1] was a Norwegian woman who was the first wife of author Axel Jensen and later the muse and girlfriend of Leonard Cohen for several years in the 1960s. [5]
Suzanne Pleshette (1937–2008), actress (The Bob Newhart Show) Ron Rifkin (born 1939), actor, director [ 345 ] Joan Rivers (born Joan Alexandra Molinsky Sanger Rosenberg , 1933–2014), comedian, actress, talk show host [ 438 ] [ 439 ]
Death of a Ladies' Man is the fifth studio album by Leonard Cohen, produced and co-written by Phil Spector.The album was in some ways a departure from Cohen's typical minimalist style by using Spector's Wall of Sound recording method, which included ornate arrangements and multiple tracks of instrument overdubs.