She is immortalised in possibly the world’s most haunting breakup song, So Long, Marianne – and in the 2019 documentary, Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love. Hydra (locals pronounce it “E-dra”) is where he met his Norwegian lover and muse Marianne Ihlen. James Burke/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images The next decade would be the making of him.Īmerican poet Charles Heckstall and Australian author Charmian Clift listen as Leonard Cohen plays guitar under his tree in October 1960. Still, she explains, when Cohen arrived on Hydra in 1960, he was a penniless failure. Were the womanising Ladies' Man still alive, Maria is precisely the kind of beautiful, intelligent woman he would have tried to hit on (though he’d have found a far more elegant term for it). ‘It’s just a few more steps,” says Maria Voulgari, my classically educated Greek guide as we explore Leonard Cohen’s Hydra – the idyllic island where he wrote most of his stunning debut album, The Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967).
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