![]() ![]() He was living with Marianne while writing songs about hooking up with Janis Joplin at the Chelsea Hotel. Cohen, once he achieved success as a performer, discovered he was the Elvis of bookish depressives and indulged himself with the women who stampeded to his shows. In nauseating detail, it documents the damage wrought by open relationships and other errors of the counterculture. Then he broke some news to her: “I just wanted to tell you that you ruined my life.”ĭirected by Nick Broomfield, the new documentary Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love is intended as a tribute to the relationship that inspired one of Cohen’s best-known songs. Soon he bought a house and invited Marianne and her son to be with him. On a trip to New York he sold “Suzanne” to Judy Collins. He wrote and wrote, got depressed when his drug-addled novel Beautiful Losers failed, then turned to songwriting. ![]() Cohen was a father figure to her young son Axel, the product of a previous, failed marriage. She did the shopping, brought his meals, paid the rent, warmed his bed. In the 1960s, an unknown poet-novelist named Leonard Cohen developed his craft on the Greek island of Hydra. ![]()
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