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Leonard Cohen Déjà Vu - Flexing Fingers

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It's come to DrHGuy's attention that the same image of Leonard Cohen may appear on the covers of different books and periodicals and illustrate multiple articles. While the reasons behind this editorial predilection for certain photos could range from availability to personal preferences to cost to advice from a PR consultant, the phenomenon itself, even without a convincing explanation for the choices, has proved sufficiently interesting to generate a new DrHGuy classification: Leonard Cohen Déjà Vu

Today's example, an Everett photo of Leonard Cohen flexing his fingers, can be found perched on the cover of Leonard Cohen In His Own Words by Jim Devlin (Omnibus Press, UK 1988)

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And on this cover of the Chinese translation of Beautiful Losers (Yilin Press, Taiwan 2003)

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And on the front of The Ticket (The Irish Times, September 15, 2006)

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And on the cover of The Word (Issue 53, July 2007)

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