Hello: I'm a newbie to this forum, but not to Leonard Cohen...I've been sitting here reading these posts and I suddenly realized that there is not another artist in the world about whom I can remember where I was and who I was with when I first heard them. It was my last year of high school, in 1969...

I can remember working at the "door" of an antiques show at the Lord Nelson Hotel in Halifax - I believe it was the first year I was at Dal University, which would be 1970. Leonard Cohen arrived to look around and I'll never forget that moment of trying to stay calm while feeling such exci...