{"id":16160,"date":"2020-09-28T20:31:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T18:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/?p=16160"},"modified":"2020-09-28T21:23:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T19:23:12","slug":"kw-40-2020-leonard-cohen-untold-stories-the-early-years-out-in-october-2oth-von-michael-posner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/?p=16160","title":{"rendered":"KW-40-2020: There are still so many untold Stories about Leonard Cohen. Michael Posner is telling some of them:  Leonard Cohen, The Untold Stories  &#8211; The Early Years &#8211; Out in October 2oth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The extraordinary life of one of the world\u2019s greatest music and literary icons, in the words of those who knew him best.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/LC-Book-untold-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-16161\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/LC-Book-untold-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/LC-Book-untoldstories.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-16162\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/LC-Book-untoldstories-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPoet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon\u2014there has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen. He was a true giant in contemporary western culture, entertaining and inspiring people everywhere with his work. From his groundbreaking and bestselling novels,<i> The Favourite Game <\/i>and<i> Beautiful Losers,<\/i> to timeless songs such as \u201cSuzanne,\u201d \u201cDance Me to the End of Love,\u201d and \u201cHallelujah,\u201d Cohen is a cherished artist. His death in 2016 was felt around the world by the many fans and followers who would miss his warmth, humour, intellect, and piercing insights.<\/p>\n<p><i>Leonard Cohen, Untold Stories<\/i> chronicles the full breadth of his extraordinary life. The first of three volumes\u2014The Early Years\u2014follows him from his boyhood in Montreal to university, and his burgeoning literary career to the world of music, culminating with his first international tour in 1970.<\/p>\n<p>Through the voices of those who knew him best\u2014family and friends, colleagues and contemporaries, rivals, business partners, and his many lovers\u2014the book probes deeply into both Cohen\u2019s public and private life. It also paints a portrait of an era, the social, cultural, and political revolutions that shook the 1960s.<\/p>\n<p>In this revealing and entertaining first volume, bestselling author and biographer Michael Posner draws on hundreds of interviews to reach beyond the Cohen of myth and reveal the unique, complex, and compelling figure of the real man.<\/p>\n<div id=\"detailBullets_feature_div\">\n<ul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\">\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"> <span class=\"a-text-bold\">Gebundene Ausgabe : <\/span> 496 Seiten <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"> <span class=\"a-text-bold\">ISBN-10 : <\/span> 1982152621 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"> <span class=\"a-text-bold\">ISBN-13 : <\/span> 978-1982152628 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"> <span class=\"a-text-bold\">Gr\u00f6\u00dfe und\/oder Gewicht : <\/span> 15.24 x 3.81 x 22.86 cm <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"> <span class=\"a-text-bold\">Herausgeber : <\/span> Simon &amp; Schuster (20. Oktober 2020) <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"a-list-item\"> <span class=\"a-text-bold\">Sprache: : <\/span> Englisch <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The extraordinary life of one of the world\u2019s greatest music and literary icons, in the words of those who knew him best. Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon\u2014there has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen. He was a true giant in contemporary western culture, entertaining and inspiring people everywhere with his work. From his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16166,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16160\/revisions\/16166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}