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| | Salon Brilliant Careers | Take this longing from my tongue |
 | | On the back jacket of "Songs From a Room" was a photo of the beautiful, blond Marianne Jensen -- the Norwegian woman of "So Long, Marianne" fame, Cohen's lover and muse of many years -- sitting at a desk in a white room. |
 | | "Songs From a Room" opened with two of Cohen's masterpieces, "Bird on the Wire" and "Story of Isaac," songs that, taken together, defined his persona as outsider and prophet, a man without a country and a citizen of the world. |
 | | Miller" employed his songs to such effect it looked like the ultimate music video, and Billboard labeled him "the new patron saint of the non-hippie hipsters." There was something very unpsychedelic about his image: the suits, the gravitas, the voice, the flamenco-style guitar. |
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