DANCE ME TO THE END OF LOVE

Leonard Cohen, Epic and Enigmatic Songwriter, Is Dead at 82.

'No other artist’s music felt or sounded like his': tributes pour in to Leonard Cohen.

Leonard Cohen managed that rare thing: to talk with clarity about death.

Why does Leonard Cohen owe it all to Spain?

Acceptance speech for the 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for Arts & Letters. 
From minute 5:34 onwards he tells the story of how he got his song and why he owes it all to Spain. A must-see!

Leonard Cohen on Federico García Lorca: The lyrics of the song "Take This Waltz" derive from Pequeño Vals Vienés  (“Little Viennese Waltz”), a poem written in Spanish by Lorca. Compare:

       Take This Waltz lyrics

       Pequeño vals vienés poem

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