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Loser on the Moon: On Leonard Cohen, Fandom, and Posterity

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For those among the world's inhabitants who take for granted that one day, in some far flung corner of the cosmos, a preternaturally melancholic being ?" earthling or otherwise ?" will come by chance to hear a Leonard Cohen song and thereby be made if not suddenly blissful then at least able to enjoy his, her, or its melancholy a little more, a recent edition of Rolling Stone will hold interest. In an interview timed to coincide with the release of Mr. Cohen's 13th studio album, an event in turn coinciding with his 80th birthday, the man says essentially that he cares not at all what becomes of his work after he dies, nor what his legacy will be. The music? The poems? The novels? The life? He could give a damn.

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Comment by Powell Gammill
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Wow. I am so old. I am glad to read he is still alive. I usually hear his songs done by other people and remind me of him. As an unrelated aside I saw a promo during the Superbowl that (outspoken pacifist) Tony Bennett was performing at the Grammy's and remembered thinking wow, still performing!



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