Photos: Leonard Cohen | 1934 - 2016

Leonard Cohen, Canadian poet and singer-songwriter, plays some of his songs in a small recording studio in lower Manhattan in the mid-1980s.

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Nov. 10, 2016 6:40 PM PT

Leonard Cohen, a singer-songwriter whose literary sensibility and elegant dissections of desire made him one of popular music’s most influential and admired figures for four decades, has died. He was 82.

Leonard Cohen in his room at the Mt. Baldy Zen Center in 1995.

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Singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen

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Singer-songwriter-poet Leonard Cohen attends the Los Angeles premiere of “Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man” on June 24, 2006 at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre during the L.A. Film Festival.

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Leonard Cohen performs in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2008.

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Leonard Cohen onstage at the Stravinski Hall during the 42nd Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 2008.

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Canadian poet-songwriter Leonard Cohen greets the audience at the start of his concert in the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 2008.

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Leonard Cohen performs his first concert in the United States since 1993 at the Beacon Theater in New York on Feb. 19, 2009. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Leonard Cohen at the Nokia Theater at L.A. Live in 2009. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Leonard Cohen performs in Warsaw in October 2010.

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Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen acknowledges the applause of the audience after receiving the 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for Letters during the Prince of Asturias Awards Ceremony at the Campoamor theatre in Oviedo, Spain, in 2011.

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