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Bob Dylan played Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' during a Montreal gig in 1988, long before covering the song became a tired cliche.

He was the poet laureate of the flawed, who made imperfection gorgeous.

Back in May of 1988, Leonard Cohen decided to push "Heart With No Companion" towards the end of the night and open up his show with "Dance Me to the End of Love." He must have really thought it was a good move because, as far as we can tell, it's opened up every single concert he's done ever since — and we're talking well north of 400 consecutive shows. The 1984 song was written on a dinky Casio synthesizer he found in a tourist shop in Times Square. As author Sylvie Simmons tells it in her incredible Cohen biography I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen, the machine didn't even have an output jack. Cohen insisted they find a way to make it work in the studio, and the result is a tune that sends chills down the spine of many Cohen fans because they know it means a magical night of music is just beginning. 

Perhaps his most memorable song from Canadian poet/songwriter & performer Leonard Cohen. Cohen specified, notably in a BBC interview, that the song wa

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The song "Choices" from the album Cant Forget: A Souvenir of the Grand Tour Live. Buy the album: Amazon

Check out amazing footage of Leonard Cohen covering the Drifters at his last-ever concert.