Leonard Cohen ... The lasting visual of the lover’s “famous blue raincoat, torn at the shoulder” is the type of crushing memory that shows Cohen’s profound understanding of the workings ...

3. Lee Ranaldo – “Famous Blue Raincoat” A few months after Leonard Cohen’s death, artists including Richard Thompson and Joan As Police Woman came together for a New York concert that ...

When Leonard Cohen died last week ... Cole may be the most directly indebted to Cohen. His Cohen covers — like his bleak 1971 song “Famous Blue Raincoat,” for instance — are quite close ...

When Leonard ... Blue Raincoat” still feels “unfinished” to him. “It stems from the fact that you are not as good as you want to be—that’s really what nervousness is,” Cohen told ...

Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen passed away today ... and that explains the lyrics. 3. Famous Blue Raincoat A thief had once stolen Cohen's raincoat in the 70s. However, the thief ...

8th January 1980: Solemn Canadian folk pop singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen shares ... to the practice of Zen Buddhism. Cohen really did own a blue Burberry raincoat that was stolen from Ihlen ...

Poetry, fiction and songwriting were more or less equal forms of expression to Leonard Cohen – although one paid a hell of a lot better than the others. After mastering the mystical power of ...