RIP LEONARD COHEN, EPIC AND ENIGMATIC SONGWRITER, DEAD AT 82.

I think my first exposure to Cohen’s music was through Jennifer Warnes’ CD covering his songs, Famous Blue Raincoat, and the video for “First We Take Manhattan,” with a roaring guitar solo courtesy of Stevie Ray Vaughan. From the song’s production to the video’s staging and cinematography, this is 1986’s pop culture, right here: