a Privat Leonard Cohen Page


	I heard the name " Leonard Cohen " for the first time in the summer of 1974 in Side /Turkey. As a student I worked in this small tourist village during my summer holidays. I met a German tourist as I tried to play some songs on my guitar. This young man played me a song: " Suzanne ". I was fascinated by this song. The simplicity for playing and its intensity in senses. I asked for the singer, and got the response: Leonard Cohen. tried to keep this name on my mind (I had first 2 words, then a whole song, later many many songs to keep in my head). Harald gave me a cassette at the end of his vacation: " Songs of Leonard Cohen ". All summer long I heard the songs, tried to get the lyrics and tried to find out the chords. Later I found a songbook in a bookstore in Ankara: "Songs of Leonard Cohen" I spent 25% of my scholarship and bought the book. I had all the lyrics, I had all the notes. The pictures in this songbook impressed me very much: with friends in tavern, with Suzanne in Hydra, happy with Judy Collins, a depressive man lying on the floor... I always had a particular relation to the people, who like (feel) Cohen. And I was really happy in such moments: I`m singing Cohen-songs and someone accompanies me... (thanks Bijen, how can I forget) And I am the one, who has been most subjected to the question: Do you still listen to Cohen? Yes I do... Sincerely Kadir Ercan (Feedback)

Kadir Ercan (Feedback)