TIMELINE AND AWARDS
OF LEONARD COHEN
Compiled by Tom Sakic Jarkko Arjatsalo
Compelete and updated list of Awards below the Timeline!
| Year |
Books |
Albums |
Tours &
Concerts |
Special Happenings |
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| 1934 |
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Born on Sept 21 in Montreal |
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| 1944 |
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Father Nathan Cohen dies |
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| 1947 |
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Bar Mitzvah |
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| 1948 |
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Attends Westmount High |
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| 1949 |
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Buys a guitar & discovers Lorca |
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| 1951 |
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Enters McGill University |
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| 1955 |
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Graduates from McGill |
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| 1956 |
Let Us Compare Mythologies |
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Attends Columbia University |
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| 1957 |
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Leaves Columbia University |
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| 1959 |
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Moves to London |
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| 1960 |
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Goes to Hydra; buys the house |
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| 1961 |
The Spice-Box Of Earth |
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Visits Cuba |
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| 1963 |
The Favorite Game |
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CBC Prize |
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| 1964 |
Flowers For Hitler |
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Ladies and Gentlemen (NFB film) |
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| 1966 |
Beautiful Losers |
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Begins serious musical career |
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Parasites Of Heaven |
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| 1967 |
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Newport Folk Festival & NY |
First major singing performance |
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| 1968 |
Selected Poems 1956-1968 |
Songs Of Leonard Cohen |
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Goes to Nashville. Refuses |
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Governor General's Award |
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| 1969 |
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Songs From A Room |
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Meets Joshu Sasaki Roshi
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| 1970 |
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Europe, Festivals, USA |
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| 1971 |
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Songs Of Love And Hate |
Montreal |
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| 1972 |
The Energy Of Slaves |
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Europe & Israel |
Bird on a Wire (tour film) |
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Son Adam is born |
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| 1973 |
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Live Songs |
Israel |
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| 1974 |
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New Skin For The Old Ceremony |
USA&Europe |
Daughter Lorca is born |
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| 1975 |
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Greatest Hits/Best Of |
USA & Canada |
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| 1976 |
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Europe |
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| 1977 |
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Death Of A Ladies' Man |
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| 1978 |
Death Of A Lady's Man |
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Mother Masha Cohen dies |
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| 1979 |
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Recent Songs |
Europe |
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| 1980 |
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Australia, Europe, USA, Israel |
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| 1983 |
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I'm A Hotel (TV film) |
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| 1984 |
Book Of Mercy |
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| 1985 |
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Various Positions |
Europe, USA, Canada, |
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Australia, Israel |
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| 1988 |
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I'm Your Man |
Europe, USA, Canada |
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| 1991 |
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| 1992 |
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The Future |
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| 1993 |
Stranger Music |
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Europe, USA, Canada |
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| 1994 |
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Cohen Live |
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Moves to Mt Baldy Zen Center |
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| 1995 |
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Internet community borns |
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| 1996 |
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Is ordained Zen monk Jikan |
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| 1997 |
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More Best Of Leonard Cohen |
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| 1999 |
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Leaves Mt Baldy Zen Center |
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Settles in Los Angeles |
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First visit to Mumbai, India |
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| 2001 |
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Field
Commander Cohen |
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Ten New Songs |
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| 2002 |
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The Essential Leonard Cohen |
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| 2003 |
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| 2004 |
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Dear Heather |
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70th birthday |
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| 2006 |
Book of Longing |
Blue Alert (with Anjani Thomas) |
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I'm Your Man,
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documentary film
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| 2007 |
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Digital remasters of 3 albums |
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Book of Longing, collaboration |
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of Philip Glass and L Cohen |
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(concerts and CD) |
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Art exhibitions in Canada and UK |
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| 2008 |
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World Tour (Canada, Europe) |
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| 2009 |
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Live in London (DVD&CD) |
Tour in Australia/New Zealand |
Plaque at Chelsea Hotel |
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Live at Isle of Wight (CD, DVD, |
Spring Tour in US&Canada |
to commemorate his 75th |
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BluRay) |
Summer Tour in Europe & Israel |
birthday |
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Fall Tour in USA |
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| 2010 |
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New tour video (tbc) |
World Tour 2010 in |
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Bird on a Wire (DVD) |
Europe, Pacific, Asia |
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Awards, nominations, titles and honours
Compiled by Tom Sakic
1955 MacNaughton Prize for Creative Writing, Peterson Memorial Prize
1961 Canada Council Arts Scholarship
1964 his novel The Favourite Game won the Quebec Literary Competition Prize (awarded 1923-70 by the Province of Quebec)
1968 refused a Governor General's Award (in category for English language poetry or drama) for Selected Poems 1956 – 1968
1968 Cohen's first LP Songs of Leonard Cohen reached #13 in the UK and #83 in the US
1969 Cohen's second studio album Songs from a Room reached #2 in the UK, #7 in Canada, and #63 in the US; gold certificate in Canada
1969 Bird on the Wire single reached #2 on the U.S. Billboard music chart, and #31 on Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary chart
1970 honorary degree from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
1971 Cohen's third LP Songs of Love and Hate reached #4 in the UK and #145 in the US
1973 Cohen's 1968 LP Songs of Leonard Cohen received gold certificate in the UK
1973 Cohen's first live album Live Songs reached #156 in the US
1974 Cohen's fourth LP New Skin for the Old Ceremony reached #24 in the UK
1977 Cohen's fifth LP Death of a Ladies' Man reached #35 in the UK
1979 Cohen's sixth LP Recent Songs reached #53 in the UK
1984 made-for-TV short musical film I am a Hotel, written by Cohen and based on his songs, won The Golden Rose, the main award at the international television festival Rose d'Or in Montreux
1985 Cohen's seventh LP Various Positions reached #52 in the UK
1985 Book of Mercy won the Canadian Author's Association Literary Award for Poetry
1986 Cohen and Lewis Furey won the Genie Award for Best Original Song (for "Angel Eyes" from Night Magic)
1988 I'm Your Man LP receives platinum certificates in Norway and Spain, and gold certificates in Canada and Sweden; reached #48 in the UK
1988 CBS awarded Cohen with the Columbia Records Crystal Globe Award, reserved for artists who sell more than five million copies of an album in foreign territories (for I'm Your Man)
1989 nominated for Juno Award as Canadian Entertainer of the Year
1989 nominated for Juno Award as Male Vocalist of the Year
1989 Cohen's 1968 LP Songs of Leonard Cohen received gold certificate in the Unites States
1991 inducted into the Juno/Canadian Music Hall of Fame
1991 Cohen was made Officer of the Order of Canada
1991 nominated for Juno Award as Songwriter of the Year
1992 honorary degree from McGill University, Montreal
1992 Cohen's ninth album The Future reached #36 in the UK; receives gold, platinum and double platinum certificate in Canada (1993)
1993 won the Juno Award for Male Vocalist of the Year
1993 Cohen's video for Closing Time, directed by Curtis Wehrfritz, won the Juno Award for Best Video
1993 nominated for Juno Award as Producer of the Year (with co-producer Leanne Ungar, for Closing Time)
1993 Cohen received the Governor General's Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement
1994 won the Juno Award for Songwriter of the Year
1994 nominated for Juno Award for Album of the Year (for The Future)
1994 Cohen's video for The Future, directed by Curtis Wehrfritz, was nominated for Juno Award for Best Video
1994 Cohen Live album reached #35 in the UK
1995 Tower of Songs tribute CD reached #198 in the US
1996 received Cohen was ordained a Rinzai Buddhist monk
2000 Cohen's 1975 The Best Of LP received gold certificate in the US
2001 Cohen's 10th studio album Ten New Songs reached #1 in Poland and Norway, #4 in Canada, and #143 in the US; #13 on Top Internet Albums chart
2001 Ten New Songs received platinum certificates in Canada, Norway and Poland, and gold certificates in Denmark, France, Hungary, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland
2001 Nagroda Muzyczna Fryderyk, the annual Polish music award, for best foreign album (Ten New Songs).
2002 Cohen (with Sharon Robinson) was nominated for Juno Award as Best Songwriter (for Boogie Street, In My Secret Life, and You Have Loved Enough)
2002 Cohen's video In My Secret Life, directed by Floria Sigismondi, was nominated for Juno Award as Best Video
2002 nominated for Juno Award for Best Pop Album (for Ten New Songs)
2002 nominated for Juno Award as Best Artist
2002 SNEP Award for more than 100,000 copies of Ten New Songs sold in France
2003 The Essential Leonard Cohen reached #10 in the Netherlands, #16 in Ireland, #20 in Norway, #26 in Finland, #29 in New Zealand, and #34 in Poland
2003 his 1966 novel Beautiful Losers was chosen for inclusion in Canada Reads 2005
2004 Cohen's 11th studio album Dear Heather reached #1 in Denmark and Poland, #2 in Norway, #5 in Canada, Ireland and Portugal, #8 in Sweden, #9 in Belgium, #13 in Austria and Switzerland, #22 in Finland, #24 in Italy, #34 in the UK, Netherlands and France, #38 in Germany, #131 in the US, #18 in World Albums 40 and #131 in Top Internet Albums charts
2004 Dear Heather receives gold certificate in Canada, The Czech Republic, Denmark, Ireland, Norway, and Poland
2005 Cohen was included to the Canadian Folk Music Walk of Fame
2006 Book of Longing reached #1 on the Top 10 Hardcover Fiction Books in Canada (as compiled by Maclean’s Magazine), being the first book of poetry ever to reach the top of the bestsellers’ lists in Canada
2006 Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man soundtrack CD reached #176 in the US
2006 Cohen was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame
2007 Cohen received a Grammy for Album of the Year as a featured artist on Herbie Hancock's River: The Joni Letters
2008 Philip Glass' CD Book of Longing: A Song Cycle Based on the Poetry and Images of Leonard Cohen reached #17 on Billboard's classical albums chart in the US
2008 Cohen was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
2008 Cohen was made a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec
2008 The Compilation box-set reached #17 on Finland's Albums Top 50 chart
2008 Cohen's 1985 song Hallelujah reached #36 on UK Billboard chart (simultaneously with Alexandra Burke's version at #1 and Jeff Buckley's 1994 version at #2)
2008 Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah won Musicnotes Song of the Year Award
2008 re-distributed The Essential Leonard Cohen (2002) reached #17 in Denmark, #23 in Austria, #30 in Sweden, #51 in Spain and #57 in the UK
2009 3CD re-release of The Essential Leonard Cohen (2002) reached #8 on Australia Albums Top 50 chart
2009 Cohen's first full concert album Live in London reached #7 in Canada, #3 in Ireland, #4 in Belgium, New Zealand and Denmark, #7 in Finland, Poland, Spain and the Netherlands, #8 in Norway and Portugal, #9 in Austria, #13 in Germany, #14 in Sweden, #15 in France, #19 in the UK, #23 in Switzerland, #25 in Australia, 27 in Italy, #76 in the US; #17 on World Albums Top 40 and #93 on Top Internet Albums charts
2009 Cohen's album Live in London was Long Listed for the Polaris Music Prize
2009 Leonard Cohen Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 reached #56 in the Netherlands and #73 in Ireland
2009 nominated for the MOJO Honours List 2009 award in category of Best Live Act
2009 2009 re-release of 1975 Greatest Hits LP reached #28 on Austria Albums Top 75 and #29 on UK Albums To 75 charts
2010 2009 re-release of 1975 Greatest Hits LP reached #6 on Ireland Albums Top 75 chart
2010 Cohen received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
2010 received Porin, the annual Croatian music award, for Live in London DVD in category of foreign video programme
2010 Cohen was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
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