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Leonard Cohen: Incurable Romantic

Anthony O'Grady, RAM, April 1980

WHEN LEONARD COHEN takes the stage there's a small, collective gasp, almost resembling the threshold of tumescence, or the sudden realisation of a dream come true. The girl in front of me grips her boyfriend's shoulder so hard he winces. Pleasure and pain.

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