Authors: Ira B. Nadel
Desmond Pacey, Excerpt from correspondence. Copyright © Estate of Desmond Pacey. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
University of Toronto. Excerpts from the Leonard Cohen manuscript collection, Thomas Fisher Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Toronto.
Viking Press.
The Favorite Game
by Leonard Cohen. Copyright © 1963 by Leonard Cohen. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Beautiful Losers
by Leonard Cohen. Copyright © 1966 by Leonard Cohen. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Photographs. All unattributed photographs copyright © Leonard Cohen / Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. / Bad Monk Publishing. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Songs by Leonard Cohen. “Suzanne,” copyright © 1967, 1995 by Bad Monk Publishing. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “The Stranger Song,” copyright © 1967, 1995 Bad Monk Publishing. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “So Long, Marianne,” copyright © 1967, 1995 by Bad Monk Publishing. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Sisters of Mercy,” copyright © 1967, 1995 by Bad Monk Publishing. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Master Song,” copyright © 1967, 1995 by Bad Monk Publishing. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Hey, That’s No Way To Say Good-bye,” copyright © 1967, 1995 by Bad Monk Publishing. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Winter Lady,” copyright © 1967, 1995 by Bad Monk Publishing. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Teachers,” copyright © 1967, 1995 by Bad Monk Publishing. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong,” copyright © 1967, 1995 by Bad Monk Publishing. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Bird On The Wire,” copyright © 1968 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “The Old Revolution,” copyright © 1969 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “The Butcher,” copyright © 1969 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “You Know Who I Am,” copyright © 1967, 1995 by Bad Monk Publishing. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Priests,” copyright ©
1967, 1995 by Bad Monk Publishing. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Avalanche,” copyright © 1967, 1995 by Bad Monk Publishing. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Famous Blue Raincoat,” copyright © 1971 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Last Year’s Man,” copyright © 1971 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Nancy,” copyright © 1969 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Story of Isaac,” copyright © 1969 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “There Is A War,” copyright © 1974 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “A Singer Must Die,” copyright © 1974 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Field Commander Cohen,” copyright © 1974 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Is This What You Wanted,” copyright © 1974 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “I Tried To Leave You,” copyright © 1974 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Leaving Green Sleeves,” copyright © 1974 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Memories,” copyright © 1977 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. and Back to Mono Music, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Paper Thin Hotel,” copyright © 1977 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. and Back to Mono Music, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Iodine,” copyright © 1977 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. and Back to Mono Music, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Death of a Ladies’ Man,” copyright © 1977 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. and Back to Mono Music, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Came so Far for Beauty,” copyright © 1979 by Bad Monk Publishing and Relentless Music. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Night Comes On,” copyright © 1988 by Bad Monk Publishing. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Dance Me To The End Of Love,” copyright © 1992 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Hallelujah,” copyright © 1988 by Bad Monk Publishing. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “The Law,” copyright © 1988 by Bad Monk Publishing. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Coming Back to You,” copyright © 1984 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “First We Take Manhattan,” copyright © 1991 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Take This Waltz,” copyright © 1990 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. © 1993 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. “Closing Time,” copyright © 1993 by Leonard Cohen Stranger Music, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Copyright © 1996 by Ira B. Nadel
First Vintage Canada Edition 1997
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Originally published in Canada in hardcover by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Nadel, Ira Bruce
Various positions: a life of Leonard Cohen
eISBN: 978-0-307-36702-0
1. Cohen, Leonard, 1934– –Biography.
2. Poets, Canadian (English)–20th century – Biography.*
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