The Future

The Future is the ninth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, released in 1992. The actress Rebecca De Mornay, who dated Cohen in the early 1990s, was credited as a co-producer of the album along with Cohen himself. The album includes Cohen's covers of the Irving Berlin song "Always" and the Frederick Knight song "Be For Real." The Future is also the only Leonard Cohen studio album to include an instrumental Cohen composition ("Tacoma Trailer"). he album charted as high as #36 in the U.K. and was phenomenally successful in Canada, going gold, platinum, and double-platinum. Cohen also won the Canadian Juno Award for Best Male Vocalist in 1993 for The Future. In his acceptance speech, he quipped, "Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win Vocalist of the Year". The music video for Cohen's song "Closing Time" also won the Juno Award for Best Music Video in 1993.