Cohen pursued a career as a poet and novelist.

He purseded his music career in 1967 at the

age of 33. His first album, Songs of Leonard Cohen was followed by three more albums of folk
music: Songs from a Room , Songs of Love and Hate (1971) and New Skin for the Old
Ceremony . His 1977 record Death of a Ladies' Man, co-written and produced by Phil Spector,
was a move away from Cohen's previous minimalist sound. In 1979, Cohen returned with the
more traditional Recent Songs, which blended his acoustic style with jazz, East Asian, and
Mediterranean influences. Cohen's most famous song, "Hallelujah", was first released on his
studio album Various Positions in 1984. I'm Your Man in 1988 marked Cohen's turn to
synthesized productions. In 1992, Cohen released its follow-up, The Future, which had dark
lyrics and references to political and social unrest.

Cohen returned to music in 2001 with the release of Ten New Songs, which was a major hit in
Canada and Europe. His 11th album, Dear Heather, followed in 2004. Following a successful
string of tours between 2008 and 2013, Cohen released three albums in the final four years of
his life: Old Ideas (2012), Popular Problems (2014) and You Want It Darker (2016), the last of
which was released three weeks before his death. A posthumous album titled Thanks for the
Dance was released in November 2019, his fifteenth and final studio album.

Kris Kristofferson has penned some of the most memorable lyrics in country and rock music
history, and yet he has gone on record as saying he would like the opening lines of a song he
didn’t write to be used as his epitaph. Such is the power of Leonard Cohen’s “Bird On The
Wire,” a song that ruminates on the impossibility of freedom in a world rife with tethers.

The inspiration for “Bird On The Wire” came from Cohen’s time in the ’60s living on the rustic
Greek island of Hydra. When he first arrived there, the island didn’t even have electricity, but
Cohen soon witnessed the construction of telephone poles in this idyllic place. So there actually
were birds on the wire to fire up the songwriter’s imagination, just as there were “drunks in a
midnight choir,” since the island was also known for bouts of late-night revelry.

Judy Collins actually recorded the song in 1968 before Cohen’s own version a year later on his
second LP, Songs From A Room. On that album, Bob Johnston, who was known for his work
on Bob Dylan’s landmark mid-60s albums, came aboard to produce, and the strings he applied
to “Bird On The Wire” coat Cohen’s tale in just the right amount of tenderness and light.
Leonardo Cohan was a family man who really took time in perfecting his music.

The sources
https://www.britannica.com/biography/
Leonard-Cohen
https://genius.com/Leonard-cohen-bird-
on-the-wire-lyrics

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