Leonard Cohen remembered by Rufus Wainwright

21 September 1934 - 7 November 2016
The singer-songwriter – and father of Cohen’s granddaughter – recalls an intelligent, humorous, slightly scary presence• Read the Observer’s obituaries of 2016 in full hereIt’s quite weird to say that I got to know Leonard Cohen first as a person rather than an icon. I didn’t get into his music as a teenager – I was an opera fanatic from 13 – but my sister Martha did, so there we were, embarking on very dram