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One month later, he will release his 1. You Want It Darker. Crowning a career that saw him perform a triumphant world tour in his late seventies, it arrives as a sad and monumental milestone. With music fit for a requiem, and songs that take dramatic vows of abdication (. I was dealing with an ailing old man, but an ailing old man who was showing paranormal levels of devotion and focus, and that rubbed off on everybody.

The encounters were urgent and sweet and meaningful. It was as if we were riding some kind of mysterious wind. Through monastic training, or something, he had the resources to deal with this acute physical discomfort.

There were episodes where I saw an incapacitated old man stand up and dance in front of the speakers. There were hilarious, esoteric arguments fuelled by medical marijuana. There were episodes of blissful joy that sometimes lasted hours, where we. There were smiles and an inner glow that I can actually hear on the record. Gone are the cold electronic keyboards of earlier records, replaced by warm waves of violin and cello. And the chorus of female harmonies that usually mirror Leonard. Instead, a cantor male choir accompanies him for the first time.

It rises above sloganeering. I had been playing a lot a cantorial music, wondering how to fit it in. Over the years his aunt, Ruth Cohen, had been sending him recordings of the synagogue. Early one morning, the cantor woke up to a message from Leonard asking if he. I wrote back and said, ! Johnson’s backstage interview with Cohen.

The 4. 0- year- old cantor has sung national anthems at Habs and Blue Jays games, but moonlighting for Leonard Cohen was clearly a bigger deal. When he heard the title track of You Want It Darker, and realized some of the lyrics are lifted directly from Hebrew liturgy, the weight of his mission began to sink in.

It all started to make sense to me. This is a person who is struggling with the end of things, and he.

Asked how concern for his own mortality informed the album, he demurred: . Work is not always sweet, but it. He has enjoyed a spectacular third act that defies the laws of showbiz physics. By the time he entered his seventies, Cohen had retreated from the spotlight, and was living a quiet life in Los Angeles, with his children, Adam and Lorca, close by.

His chronic depression had miraculously lifted, and he seemed in no hurry to do anything. Then in late 2. 00.

Lorca peeked into his finances, he was shocked to discover he was nearly broke. For years his friend and longtime manager, Kelley Lynch, had been selling off his publishing rights and draining millions of dollars from his savings.

A lawsuit was launched and won, awarding Cohen $9 million, but he wasn. So in 2. 00. 8, desperate to replenish his children. It finally wound down in 2. Cohen enlivened his stage patter with a promise that he would take up smoking again when he turned 8. Imagine: here was an artist who had gone years without a hit, and had spent much of the 1. Zen monastery on Mount Baldy, outside Los Angeles. Once down from the mountain, and living in the world.

Then, with no album to promote, and no niche in celebrity culture, he hit the road. By his late seventies he was enjoying the greatest success of his entire career.

Why? His devotees, especially in Canada and Europe, were like a loyal army lying in wait for their leader. And his show, which was impeccably produced and performed, generated new legions of fans. Leonard Cohen, Adam Cohen, Adam’s mother, Suzanne Elrod and sister Lorca Cohen.