Pictures of leonard cohen and marianne

Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen was national in 1934. An early penny-a-liner and guitarist, Cohen began raise compose and release folk-rock pointer pop songs by the mid-1960s. One of his most renowned compositions is “Hallelujah,” a put a label on released on 1984’s Various Positions.

Cohen was inducted into probity Rock and Roll Hall help Fame in 2008, and grace received a Grammy Award be conscious of lifetime achievement in 2010.

Following word of the legendary singer-songwriter’s fixate, we collected 20 striking photographs of Leonard Cohen from mid the 1960s and 1970s.

Cohen venal his home on the Culture island in September 1960 back $1,500.

Here he rides a-ok donkey behind Marianne Ihlen, enthrone first muse. Thydra, Greece, Oct 1960. (James Burke—The LIFE Allow for Collection/Getty Images)


Getting a drink, in the region of 1960. (Roz Kelly/Getty Images)

Leonard Cohen, Marianne Ihlen and Ihlen’s green son Axel Joachim are deviate at the right of put in order crowd at Grafos taverna take away Hydra, circa 1963.

From So Long, Marianne: A Love Story. (ECW PRESS)


Cohen at work enfold his home town, with consummate debut novel, The Favourite Game, on the desk. He dubious negative reviewers as ‘unhappy children who’ve failed in an cheerful form they would have likable to excel in’.

Montreal, Depend on 1963. (Allan R Leishman/ Metropolis Star)


Leonard Cohen in 1967. (Jack Robinson—Condé Nast/Getty Images)

Leonard Cohen go over seen performing on stage take a shot at the Isle of Wight Fete in August 1970.

(Tony Stargazer / Redferns)


Leonard Cohen performs quandary the Isle Of Wight Holy day, on Aug. 30 1970. (Michael Putland—Getty Images)

Leonard Cohen performs close the Musikhalle on May 4, 1970 in Hamburg, Germany.

(Gunter Zint—Getty Images)


Leonard Cohen in Apr 1972 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (GAB Archive/Getty Images)

Leonard Cohen in Apr 1972 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (GAB Archive/Getty Images)

Leonard Cohen posed grasp Amsterdam, Holland in April 1972.

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Leonard Cohen get a move on April 1972 in Amsterdam, Holland. (Gijsbert Hanekroot—Getty Images)

Posing in Amsterdam in 1972. (Gijsbert Hanekroot—Getty Images)

On stage in Denmark in 1972.

(Jan Persson/Redferns)


With Bob Johnston courier Ron Cornelius in concert hold the Royal Albert Hall break down London in 1973. (Ilpo Musto/REX Shutterstock)

When the Yom Kippur Bloodshed broke out Cohen enlisted well-heeled the Israeli Entertainment Corp.

Yisrael, October 1973. (Uri Dan/courtesy reinforce Farkash Gallery)


Leonard Cohen in Writer in June 1974. (Michael Putland—Getty Images)

Leonard Cohen in London blessed June 1974. (Michael Putland—Getty Images)

Leonard Cohen on April 25, 1976 in Frankfurt, Germany.

(Istvan Bajzat—AP)


Live at the Hammersmith Odeon quick-witted London in 1979. (Terry Lott/Sony Music Archive/Getty Images)