Oh I never knew she did this song because he died days before! So beautiful...
In the YouTube video description there is background info on Marianne. I think this may be relevant for this newsletter also, the Norwegian link, she died a few months before Leonard.
Marianne Christine Stang Ihlen (18 May 1935 – 28 July 2016) was a Norwegian woman who was the first wife of author Axel Jensen and later the muse and girlfriend of Leonard Cohen for several years in the 1960s. She was the subject of Cohen's 1967 song "So Long, Marianne".
Oh I never knew she did this song because he died days before! So beautiful...
In the YouTube video description there is background info on Marianne. I think this may be relevant for this newsletter also, the Norwegian link, she died a few months before Leonard.
This is from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marianne_Ihlen
Marianne Christine Stang Ihlen (18 May 1935 – 28 July 2016) was a Norwegian woman who was the first wife of author Axel Jensen and later the muse and girlfriend of Leonard Cohen for several years in the 1960s. She was the subject of Cohen's 1967 song "So Long, Marianne".
Yeah. It's a beautiful love story. I have covered that in another newsletter. I should probably add a link to that one within this one:
https://open.substack.com/pub/childlikesoul/p/so-long-marianne-662?r=38668a&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true