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Tribute Day

  Leonard Cohen died on November 7th 2016 at the age of 82.

Joni Mitchell turns 80 today.

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  1. hedley's avatar hedley Says:

    November 7, 2023 at 4:11 pm

    I guess somewhere in the 60s Joni could not resist the boyish charms of our hero Leonard Cohen.

    “According to Cohencentric, Cohen, who was nine years older than Mitchell, spent a month living at her Laurel Canyon home when Hollywood wanted him to score a movie based on his song “Suzanne.” The movie never happened.

    Mitchell also told Malka Maron in the book Joni Mitchell: In Her Own Words, that Mitchell wrote “Rainy Night House” for Cohen as a farewell when their relationship ended.

    “I went one time to his home and I fell asleep in his old room and he sat up and watched me sleep. He sat up all the night and he watched me to see who in the world I could be.”

    And after years of her constantly being told that Cohen was “obviously” an influence on her own songs (but never that Mitchell could have possibly been an influence on Cohen), Mitchell said this in a 2001 Border Crossings interview: “I met him when I was around 24, around the time of my first record. But thematically I wanted to be broader than he was. In many ways Leonard was a boudoir poet.”


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