Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
Mark Cooper, Q, March 1988
LEONARD COHEN HAS spent 53 years perfecting the art of being Leonard Cohen, poet of romantic despair. A self-declared "ladies' man" in his songs, Cohen's impossibly deep voice relishes gloom as a calling card to the bedroom.
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