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Leonard Cohen: His Muses Were Many Women

Larry Jaffee, Record Collector, 3 December 2019

THE NEW DOCUMENTARY Leonard & Marianne: Words of Love, directed by Nick Broomfield, ostensibly is about the romance on the Greek island of Hydra in the early to mid-1960s between Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen, but ruminates largely about his relationships with many women and singer/songwriter's inability to commit himself fully to a single lover.

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