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The song is listened to by characters in an episode of American family drama series This Is Us, "So Long, Marianne" (season 4, episode 9). [16] So Long, Marianne, a Canadian-Norwegian TV series that dramatizes the romance between Cohen and Ihlen which led to the song's composition, premiered on 22 September, 2024. The series stars Alex Wolff as ...
So Long, Marianne is a compilation album by Leonard Cohen, issued in 1989 and in 1995. It features songs from his first four albums, already covered by his 1975 best of album. Although not authorized by the artist, the album is nevertheless an official release, as Cohen's label issued it.
So Long, Marianne is a 2024 Canadian-Norwegian romantic drama television series, which premiered on September 22, 2024. [1] The series is a dramatization of the 1960s romance between Canadian writer and musician Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen , the Norwegian woman who inspired Cohen's song " So Long, Marianne ".
Marianne Christine Stang Ihlen (Norwegian: [mɑrɪˈɑ̂nːə ˈîːln̩]; 18 May 1935 – 28 July 2016) [nb 1] 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. [5] She was the subject of Cohen's 1967 song "So Long, Marianne".
The recording sessions for Songs From a Room began in Hollywood in May 1968 with David Crosby as producer. [3] That didn't work out, and the album was eventually produced at Columbia Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, with producer Bob Johnston (two of the tracks from the Crosby sessions are included as bonus tracks on the 2007 remastered version).
Martha Wainwright's first release was an album-length independent cassette of ten tracks, Ground Floor, released in 1997. [2] Wainwright released two EPs in 2005—Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole and I Will Internalize—both of which contained some tracks that also appeared on her self-titled studio album, Martha Wainwright.
The song's lyrics are a loose translation, into English, of the poem "Pequeño vals vienés" (Little Viennese Waltz) by the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca (one of Cohen's favorite poets). The poem was first published in Lorca's seminal book Poeta en Nueva York .
[5] "Suzanne" was ranked 41st on Pitchfork ' s 'Top 200 Songs of the 1960s', [6] while "So Long, Marianne" was also featured on the list at 190th. [7] In a 1986 interview with the BBC Cohen explained, "The writing of 'Suzanne,' like all my songs, took a long time. I wrote most of it in Montreal - all of it in Montreal - over the space of ...