![]() ![]() ![]() I said, 'I know that, I know what he's talking about," said Freedman. "I heard him sing, 'I heard there was a secret chord that David played which pleased the Lord,' and a light went off in my head. He'd heard it many times before, but never really focused on the lyrics.īut that time, something struck a chord with him. The book on Cohen's mystical roots isn't the first time Freedman has written about religion. He's studied and written books on the Talmud, the Kabbalah, and the Bible.įreedman got the idea for this book one day when he was driving, and he heard Cohen's 1984 classic Hallelujah on the radio. ![]() In the book, Freedman took a deep dive into how Cohen used religion to make his music sing.įreedman told The Sunday Magazinethat Cohen grew up steeped in religion. The singer and songwriter was born in Quebec in 1934, and went to school in Montreal in the 1940s and 50s, and many members of his family were leaders in the Jewish community. "Cohen grows up in this environment, and he breaks away from it around the age of 30, but before that, he has obtained for himself a very strong, a very deep religious education and one that stays with him the rest of his life," said Harry Freedman, author of Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius. Leonard Cohen's beautiful verses from songs such as Hallelujah and You Want It Darker are deeply religious, and according to author Harry Freedman, they're just two of many where Cohen borrowed from ancient texts. ![]()
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