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Bad Boy Leonard Cohen Now Turned Good

Ritchie Yorke, Detroit Free Press, 4 April 1969

 

THEY USED to describe Leonard Cohen as disrespectful. They also accused him of being controversial, outrageous, bitter and even an egomaniac. They, of course, being newspaper and magazine feature writers, who found in Cohen, something of the angry-young-man cliché.

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