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'He'd Asked Me To Complete These Works': Adam Cohen On 'Thanks For The Dance'

"I was quite literally tasked with completing it," Leonard Cohen's son, Adam, says about his father's wish for him to finish this album. Kezban Özcan/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Music Interviews

'He'd Asked Me To Complete These Works': Adam Cohen On 'Thanks For The Dance'

Leonard Cohen's son, Adam, speaks about producing his father's posthumous album and how he urged his father to record vocal ideas up until his death.

Irving Burgie, Songwriter Who Helped Bring Calypso To America, Dies At 95

Irving Burgie at his home in Queens in 2017. Burgie, who rewrote the lyrics to the traditional Jamaican song "Day-O," died Friday at the age of 95. Susan Watts/NY Daily News via Getty Images hide caption

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Irving Burgie, Songwriter Who Helped Bring Calypso To America, Dies At 95

by Jon Kalish

5 min

Irving Burgie, Songwriter Who Helped Bring Calypso To America, Dies At 95

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'He'd Asked Me To Complete These Works': Adam Cohen On 'Thanks For The Dance'

"I was quite literally tasked with completing it," Leonard Cohen's son, Adam, says about his father's wish for him to finish this album. Kezban Özcan/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Kezban Özcan/Courtesy of the artist

Music Interviews

'He'd Asked Me To Complete These Works': Adam Cohen On 'Thanks For The Dance'

by Don Gonyea, Gemma Watters

10 min

'He'd Asked Me To Complete These Works': Adam Cohen On 'Thanks For The Dance'

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