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Wainwright: Cohen 'changed my understanding of music'

Martha Wainwright has said Leonard Cohen changed her understanding of music.

Wainwright who first met Leonard Cohen when she was a teenager, told 5 live's Sarah Brett and Nihal Arthanyake after hearing his record, suddenly music was about poetry' and it 'changed her perception of art'.

This clip is from Afternoon Edition on Thursday 8 December 2016.

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