This CBC video about Leonard Cohen, Suzanne Verdal, and the song “Suzanne” does offer photos of Suzanne from the 1960s that are otherwise unavailable online and would alone justify a viewing. The video’s focus, however, certainly varies with Leonard’s own account (which I urge you to read), and its information is, at best incomplete.

There is also a potentially (and unintentionally) misleading section. The sequence beginning with the frame below carries the legend “early ’60s” but the video clip appears to be an excerpt from the ARTE documentary “Girls in Pop Songs” shot in 2011 (see Video: Suzanne Verdal Talks About Leonard Cohen & The Song He Wrote About Her).

 

The screen capture below is from the same video clip and shows Suzanne Verdal in 2011 rather than at a point contemporaneous with the writing of “Suzanne.”

Made In Canada: Leonard Cohen’s “Suzanne’

I am republishing selected posts from my former Leonard Cohen site, Cohencentric, here on AllanShowalter.com (these posts can be found at Leonard Cohen). This entry was originally posted July 1, 2017.