Leonard Cohen performs "First We Take Manhattan" on Sweden's Kulturen TV program in June 1988. It's perfectly bizarro 1980s while also being so very Cohen.
Below, Cohen's interview on the same program:
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Jun 16, 2020
Freaky 1980s Leonard Cohen TV performance
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