I'm Your Man (66 page)

4.
Robert Hilburn,
Los Angeles Times,
September 24, 1995.

5.
SS, 2001.

6.
Cohen, letter to Marianne Ihlen, February 1967.

7.
Billy Walker,
Sounds,
October 23, 1971.

8.
Wirberg and Dabrowski, 1997.

9.
Pico Iyer,
Buzz,
April 1995.

10.
SS, 2001.

11.
Ibid.

12.
Wirberg and Dabrowski, 1997.

13.
Gilles Tordjman,
Les Inrockuptibles,
March 15, 1995.

14.
SS, 2001.

15.
Ibid.

16.
Ibid.

17.
Ibid.

18.
Ibid.

19.
Bruce Headlam,
Saturday Night,
December 1997.

20.
Tordjman,
Les Inrockuptibles,
1995.

21.
Neva Chonin,
Rolling Stone,
December 11, 1997.

22.
NME
, September 1995.

23.
SS, 2001.

24.
Ibid.

25.
Ibid.

26.
Wirberg and Dabrowski, 1997.

27.
SS, 1997.

28.
Ibid.

29.
Paul Zollo,
Songwriters on Songwriting
, 1992.

30.
Susan Nunziata,
Billboard,
November 28, 1998.

31.
SS, 2011.

32.
Ibid.

33.
Ibid.

34.
Ibid.

35.
Ibid.

36.
Ibid.

37.
Ibid.

38.
Ibid.

39.
SS, 2001.

40.
SS, 2011.

41.
Ibid.

42.
Ibid.

Twenty-one:
Love and Theft

Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Robert Kory, Rufus Wainwright, Nick Cave, Hal Willner, Anjani Thomas, Leanne Ungar, Sharon Robinson, Ratnesh Mathur, Julie Christensen, Perla Batalla, Robert Faggen, Richard Landon

Books and films: Armelle Brusq,
Leonard Cohen:
Portrait: Spring 96,
documentary film, 1997. Leonard Cohen,
Book of Longing,
Ecco, 2006. Agreta Wirberg and Stina Dabrowski,
Stina Möter Leonard Cohen,
TV documentary, 1997.

Chapter heading: Leonard Cohen, “To a Teacher,”
The Spice-Box of Earth,
1961.

1.
Christian Langlois,
CARP,
June 2006.

2.
SS, 2001.

3.
Ibid.

4.
Ibid.

5.
Robinson, interview with the author, 2009.

6.
Sarah Hampson,
Shambhala Sun,
November 2007.

7.
Frank DiGiacomo,
New York Observer,
February 22, 2002.

8.
SS, 2001.

9.
Jon Pareles,
New York Times,
October 1995.

10.
SS, 2001.

11.
SS, 2011.

12.
Wirberg and Dabrowski, 1997.

13.
Leon Wieseltier,
Arts & Opinion
vol. 4, no. 2, 2005.

14.
Ibid.

15.
Cohen, e-mail to Jarkko Arjatsalo, June 2004.

16.
Susan Nunziata,
Billboard,
November 28, 1998.

17.
Katherine Macklem, Charlie Gillis and Brian D. Johnson,
Maclean's
, August 22, 2005.

Twenty-two:
Taxes, Children, Lost Pussy

Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Robert Kory, Anjani Thomas, Hal Willner, Nick Cave, Rufus Wainwright, Julie Christensen, Perla Batalla, John Lissauer, Rabbi Mordecai Finley

Chapter heading: Leonard Cohen, self-portrait in
Book of Longing,
2006.

1.
Ann Diamond, “Whatever Happened to Kelley Lynch,” riverdeepbook.blogspot.com, July 3, 2008.

2.
J. Kelly Nestruck,
National Post,
February 7, 2006.

3.
Ibid.

4.
Cohen, speech at induction into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, February 5, 2006.

5.
Angela Pacienza,
Toronto Canadian Press,
February 4, 2006.

6.
Christine Langlois,
CARP,
June 2006.

7.
Ibid.

8.
Phoebe Hoban,
New York,
May 14, 2006.

9.
Sean Murphy,
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review,
August 2007.

10.
Biba Kopf,
NME,
March 1987.

Twenty-three:
The Future of Rock 'n' Roll

Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Philip Glass, Robert Faggen, Hal Willner, Anjani Thomas, Robert Kory, Steven Machat, Rob Hallett, Sharon Robinson, Roscoe Beck, Charley Webb, Hattie Webb

Chapter heading: John Landau,
Rolling Stone,
1974.

1.
SS, 2011.

2.
Greg Quill,
Toronto Star,
June 3, 2007.

3.
Mireille Silcott,
Saturday Night,
2001.

4.
Leonard Cohen Files, April 29, 2002.

5.
Mireille Silcott,
Saturday Night,
2001.

6.
Neil McCormick,
Telegraph,
May 26, 2007.

7.
Sarah Hampson,
Shambhala Sun,
November 2007.

8.
SS, 2011.

9.
Lou Reed, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame speech introducing Cohen, March 10, 2008.

10.
Cohen, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction speech, March 10, 2008.

11.
Alec Dubro,
Rolling Stone,
May 17, 1969.

12.
Arthur Schmidt,
Rolling Stone,
September 2, 1971.

13.
Geoff Boucher,
Los Angeles Times,
February 27, 2009.

Twenty-four:
Here I Stand, I'm Your Man

Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Sharon Robinson, Tony Palmer, Robert Kory, Rob Hallett, Anjani Thomas, Hal Willner, Roscoe Beck, Charley Webb, Hattie Webb, Henry Zemel

Chapter heading: Leonard Cohen, “I'm Your Man,”
I'm Your Man,
Columbia, 1988.

1.
SS, 2011.

2.
Ibid.

3.
Ben Rayner,
Toronto Star,
June 7, 2008.

4.
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
June 9, 2008.

5.
Brian D. Johnson,
Maclean's,
June 11, 2008.

6.
Johnny Black,
Audience,
September 2008.

7.
Ibid.

8.
John Aizlewood,
London Evening Standard,
July 18, 2008.

9.
Johnson,
Maclean's.

10.
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
February 20, 2009.

11.
Lavinia Jones Wright,
Billboard,
February 20, 2009.

12.
Leonard Cohen, “Now and Then.”

13.
Patrick Doyle,
Rolling Stone,
June 18, 2010.

14.
Cohen, interview with Jian Ghomeshi, CBC TV, April 16, 2009.

Twenty-five:
A Manual for Living with Defeat

Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Robert Kory

Chapter heading: Leonard Cohen, “Going Home,”
Old Ideas,
Sony, 2012.

1.
Simon Houpt,
Globe and Mail,
February 27, 2009.

2.
Paul Zollo,
Songwriters on Songwriting
, 1992, revised edition, Da Capo, 2003.

3.
Cohen to Jarvis Cocker,
Guardian,
January 19, 2012.

4.
SS, 2011.

5.
Cohen onstage, Las Vegas, December 11, 2010.

6.
Cohen, press conference, Paris, January 16, 2012.

7.
SS, 2011.

8.
Ibid.

9.
James Adams,
Globe and Mail,
April 1, 2011.

10.
SS, 2011.

11.
Adam Cohen, interviewed by Rebecca Ecker,
Maclean's,
October 6, 2011.

12.
Ibid.

13.
SS, 2011.

14.
Ibid.

15.
Greg Kot,
Chicago Tribune,
January 24, 2012.

16.
Kitty Empire,
Observer,
January 21, 2012.

17.
Jon Dolan,
Rolling Stone,
December 7, 2011.

18.
Andy Gill,
Independent
, January 20, 2012.

19.
Cohen to Jarvis Cocker, press conference, London, January 2012.

20.
Cohen, press conference, Paris, January 16, 2012.

21.
SS, 2011.

Epilogue

Author interview with: Leonard Cohen

1.
Leonard Cohen, calligraphy, liner note artwork,
Old Ideas,
2012.

Index

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Academy Awards, 383–84

“Ain't No Cure for Love,” 350, 351, 359–60

Aix Festival, 233–35

“Alexander Trocchi,” 101–2

“Alexandra Leaving,” 435

Altman, Robert, 251–52, 300

“Always,” 388, 391

“Amen,” 521–22

American Idol,
348, 484, 494

Amiel, Barbara, 141, 314–15

Amorós, Andrés, 518–19

Amos, Stanley, 208

Angel,
143

“Angel Eyes,” 346

Anjani.
See
Thomas, Anjani

“Anthem,” 341, 384–85, 388, 389, 391–92, 397, 437

Appleyard, Bryan, 347–48

Arjatsalo, Jarkko, 414–15, 444–45

Arnon, Mordechai “Pupik,” 272–73

“As the Mist Leaves No Scar,” 99, 300, 466

Atwood, Margaret, 76, 415, 496–97

“Avalanche,” 144, 210, 247, 248, 351, 359, 382, 394, 505

Bacal, Nancy, 25, 69, 73–76, 101, 106–8, 176, 315–16, 393–94, 424

Baez, Joan, 147, 165, 241, 243

“Ballad of the Absent Mare,” 220, 319

Ballet of Lepers,
61, 66

Balsekar, Ramesh, 418–26, 434, 449, 498

Bard, Stanley, 163

Bardot, Brigitte, 140, 199, 261, 383

Barnes, Cheryl, 291

Barrios, Gregory, 182

Basquiat, Jean-Michel, 181, 348
n

Batalla, Perla, 364–67, 385, 387, 392, 395–97, 403–4, 437–38

Beach, Mary, 208

Beatty, Warren, 251

Beautiful Losers,
63, 104, 131–34, 137–41, 144, 157, 198, 205

Beauty at Close Quarters,
75, 91–92

“Beauty Salon,” 287, 298

“Because Of,” 442

Beck, 499
n,
505

Beck, Roscoe, 317–18, 322–24, 349–51, 357–59, 364–67, 402, 426, 481–86, 489–90, 492

“Be for Real,” 388

“Beneath My Hands,” 98

Berger, E. Judith, 164

Berlin, Brigid, 180–82

Bernstein, Leonard, 225

Berry, Chuck, 523

Bhaktivedanta, Swami, 185–86

Biderman, Peggy, 208

Bilezikjian, John, 318–19, 322–24, 357–58, 364–67, 433

Bindiger, Emily, 283–84

Bird on a Wire
(documentary), 195
n,
269–70, 275, 506, 507

“Bird on the Wire” (song), 201–2, 216–17, 218, 237, 238, 252, 264, 323, 380, 437–38, 496, 499

Blaine, Hal, 299–302

Blakley, Ronee, 290, 300–301, 305–6

“Blessed Is the Memory,” 186, 498–99

Blitz, Thelma, 163, 209–11

Blue, Peggy, 387

Blue Alert,
454, 465–69, 514

Body, Paul, 285–86

Bonds of the Past,
254

Bono, 410, 457, 469

“Boogie Street,” 435–36, 490

Book of Longing
(book), 409, 412
n,
418
n,
445, 454–55, 460–62, 465–71, 474, 476

Book of Longing
(production), 474–77

Book of Mercy
, 327
,
330–35

Boorman, John, 176

“Born in Chains,” 505, 513–14

“Born to Lose,” 395

Boyd, Joe, 251

Branigan, Laura, 291

“Breakdown,” 213

Breier, Morton, 185–86

Brittain, Donald, 135–36

Bromige, David, 99–100

Brother Sun, Sister Moon,
225

Brotman, Stuart, 319

Brown, Marian, 113

Brown, Mick, 304

Browne, Jackson, 158–60, 188, 376, 482

Bruce, Bobby, 305

Brusq, Armelle, 413

Bryant, Boudleaux, 202–3, 219–21

Buber, Martin, 205–6

Buckley, Jeff, 347, 348, 484, 494

Buckley, Tim, 158

Buckmaster, Paul, 247

Buckskin Boys, 38–39, 142

Bukowski, Charles, 285, 519

“Bunch of Lonesome Heroes,” 99, 218–19

Burke, Alexandra, 348

Burroughs, William, 253

“Butcher, The,” 218, 321

Byers, Joy, 202

Byrds, 200, 201–2

“By the Rivers Dark,” 435

Cage, John, 125, 142, 316

Calderon, Jorge, 394–96

Cale, John, 309, 347, 348
n,
382

Came So Far for Beauty
(production), 437–38, 439–40, 456–58, 469, 476–77

“Came So Far for Beauty” (song), 287, 321

Campbell, David, 387, 430

Campbell, Glen, 522

“Captain, The,” 337, 513

Cash, Johnny, 202, 211, 213, 218, 235, 237, 522

Caspi, Matti, 272–73

Castro, Fidel, 92–93, 95

Castro, Jason, 484

Cavafy, Constantine P., 435

Cave, Nick, 351, 381–82, 438, 456, 457, 469

“Celebration,” 98, 200, 232

“Ceremonies,” 12–13, 15

Chagall, Marc, 98

“Chant,” 141

Charles, Ray, 132, 145, 388, 395, 506

Chase, Jeff, 176–77

Chelsea Girl
(album), 188

Chelsea Girls
(movie), 157, 162, 180

Chelsea Hotel, 161–65, 180–74, 199–200, 205–10, 225, 264–65, 497

“Chelsea Hotel #1,” 199–200

“Chelsea Hotel #2,” 199–200, 221, 238, 274, 283, 329, 335, 368, 495

“Chelsea Morning,” 174

Cholst, Sheldon, 84–85

Christensen, Julie, 364–67, 387, 392, 395–97, 403–4, 437–38, 457, 469

Christie, Julie, 251

Clarkson, Adrienne, 459

Clarkson, Lana, 439

Clift, Charmian, 81–82, 84, 88, 89, 113, 226

“Closing Time,” 388–89, 392, 466

Cocker, Jarvis, 456, 523–24

Cocker, Joe, 257, 349

Coe, Terese, 207–8

Cogswell, Fred, 47, 489

Cohen, Adam, 264–65, 283, 314–15, 327, 379–80, 412–13, 482, 490–91, 515–16

Cohen, Cassius Lyon, 472, 514–15

Cohen, David, 10–11, 12, 30, 35, 64, 224

Cohen, Edgar H., 11

Cohen, Esther, 4, 12–13, 15, 41, 76, 411, 497

Cohen, Horace, 8, 13, 15, 63

Cohen, Larry, 165, 177

Cohen, Lawrence, 62

Cohen, Lazarus, 6–7, 11, 27, 503

Cohen, Lorca, 281, 314–15, 377, 427, 433, 445, 449–50, 514–15, 516

Cohen, Lyon, 6–8, 9, 35

Cohen, Mrs. Lyon, 6, 10–11, 83, 97

Cohen, Masha: attachment to son, 46–47, 58; background of, 8–9; birth of son, 4–5; Cuba trip, 94–95; death of husband, 12–13; family life, 10–12, 20, 37, 58, 61; hospitalization, 69–70; in Hydra, 108–9; leukemia and death of, 307, 310–11, 313, 319; parties, 41, 49, 96; remarriage of, 30; warning to son, 176–77, 446; women in son's life, 91, 108–9, 116, 226–27

Cohen, Nathan, 4–15, 52, 58, 78

Cohen, Phil, 62, 63

Cohen, Tzvi Hirsch, 7

Cohen, Viva Katherine Wainwright, 514–15

Cohen Live,
395

Cole, Lloyd, 382

Collins, Judy, 126, 146–51, 159, 163–66, 171–73, 225, 252, 350, 397, 504

Collins, Phil, 410

“Come On, Marianne,” 170–71

Cooper, Mark, 362

Coppola, Francis Ford, 376

Cornelius, Ron, 213–14, 216, 220, 221, 228, 231–33, 236, 239, 247, 257, 260, 274–75, 335

Corso, Gregory, 85

Cowell, Simon, 348

“Crazy to Love You,” 514, 520

“Credo,” 98

Crill, Chester, 188–92, 252

Crooks, Richard, 336, 344–45

Crosby, David, 147
n,
174, 175, 200–202, 499

Crowder, John, 336, 344–45

Cuba, 92–96

Cullman, Brian, 253, 257–58

Dabrowski, Stina, 413–14

Daley, Sandy, 208

Dallas, Karl, 195

“Dance Me to the End of Love,” 335, 337, 343, 485, 489

Daniels, Charlie, 211–12, 214, 215, 228, 230, 242, 247, 256, 257

“Darkness, The,” 499, 514, 520, 521

Darrow, Chris, 189–92, 251–52, 410

Davis, Clive, 167–68, 349

Davis, Dean, 39

Davis, Janet, 39

Davis, Miles, 170

Davis, Terry, 38–39

“Days of Kindness,” 396

Deal, Kim, 381

Dear Heather,
440–45, 454, 460, 467, 468–69

Death of a Ladies' Man
(album), 296–309, 312, 315, 319, 322, 371, 439

“Death of a Ladies' Man” (song), 306

Death of a Lady's Man
(book), 252, 271
n,
307, 310–12

“Death to This Book,” 271
n,
312

DeCurtis, Anthony, 195

Delon, Alain, 157

“Democracy,” 379, 390–91

De Mornay, Rebecca, 375–79, 383–90, 392–94, 395, 404–6, 435

Denselow, Robin, 230

Deval, Jacques, 33–34

Dexter, Jeff, 242

“Diamonds in the Mine,” 248, 287, 289

Dickins, Erin, 283–84, 339–40

“Different Sides,” 513, 520

Dixon, Humphrey, 269–70

Dixon, Sean, 372–73

Djwa, Sandra, 121–22

Doddman, Mike, 38–39

“Do I Have to Dance All Night,” 321

Donaldson, Allan, 53

Donovan, Bill, 221, 235–39, 241, 257, 261–62, 275

“Don't Go Home with Your Hard-On,” 298, 302, 438, 456, 470

“Dress Rehearsal Rag,” 149, 176, 248, 249, 499

Dubro, Alec, 218–19

Dudek, Louis, 37–38, 41–42, 44, 45, 47, 51, 53, 54, 70, 99, 397

Dylan, Bob, 141–42, 285, 289–90, 316, 522; comparisons with Leonard, 192, 193–94, 201, 215, 218, 283; Johnston and, 202; meetings with Leonard, 286, 289–90, 302, 338–39, 340; Nico and, 156–57, 188

Eavis, Michael, 493–94

Egoyan, Atom, 515

Ellen, Mark, 174–75

Elrod, Suzanne, 224–27; “divorce” from Leonard, 313, 320; family life, 259, 264, 267, 281; on Hydra, 225–26, 270–71, 287–88, 291–92, 314–15; in L.A., 292, 296–97, 308–9, 313; in Montreal, 226–27, 249–50, 252, 264, 267, 275, 290–91, 310, 315; as muse, 126–28, 231; in NYC, 285; in Roussillon, 315, 327–28

Empire, Kitty, 522

Energy of Slaves, The,
208, 221–22, 254–56, 261, 268–69

Erlich, Nancy, 233

Essential Leonard Cohen,
440, 498

Esther,
7

“Everybody Knows,” 357–58, 360, 380, 515

Faggen, Robert, 476

Faith, Crissie, 339–40

“Faith, The,” 441

Famous Blue Raincoat
(album), 349–51, 361

“Famous Blue Raincoat” (song), 238, 247, 248, 252, 351

Famous Havana Diary,
93, 111

Faris, Robert E., 67

Fass, Bob, 149–50, 165

Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, 252

Faulkner, William, 53

Favorite Game, The
(book), 11, 13–14, 17–18, 22, 37, 49
n,
60, 61, 69, 109, 110–13, 119, 131, 139, 368

Favorite Game, The
(movie), 113, 440

“Feels So Good,” 499, 514

Feldman, Rona, 20, 21, 22

Feldman, Sam, 458

Feldthouse, Solomon, 188–92

Fellini, Federico, 156

Field, Hazel, 321, 325

Field Commander Cohen
(album), 323–24, 433, 435

“Field Commander Cohen” (song), 93, 275

Fields, Danny, 158, 160, 160
n,
161, 172, 180–81, 184, 228, 252, 285, 392

“Final Examination,” 312

“Fingerprints,” 305, 306

Finley, Mordecai, 332–33, 463–65

“First We Take Manhattan,” 350, 357, 360, 361, 382

Flack, Roberta, 326

Flowers for Hitler,
93, 101–2, 117–23, 144

“Folk Song,” 45

Fonda, Jane, 181

“For Anne,” 60, 98

“For Wilf and His House,” 45–46, 55

Fowler, Elkin “Bubba,” 213–14, 228, 231, 256–57, 257
n

Freedman Company, 4, 8, 13, 63, 70, 224

Freud, Sigmund, 79

Fry, Stephen, 515

Frye, H. N., 97

Fulford, Robert, 175

Furey, Lewis, 276, 278, 328–29, 346

Furgo, Bob, 364–67, 394–96

Future, The
(album), 341, 378–79, 386–92, 394–96, 397, 402–4, 437, 478–79

“Future, The” (song), 390, 392, 492, 500

Gabriel, Peter, 366, 410

Gainsbourg, Serge, 156, 383, 443

Gallagher, Bill, 164–65

Gayol, Rafael, 483

George, Wally, 375

Gesser, Sam, 54

Getman, Ron, 336, 344–45

Ghomeshi, Jian, 504–5

“Gift, The,” 64–65

Gill, Andy, 523

Gingras, Philippe, 126

Ginn, Bill, 322–24, 387, 394–96, 404

Ginsberg, Allen, 55, 56, 85, 100, 185, 286, 302, 397, 437, 473–74

Glass, Philip, 473–76

Glastonbury Festival, 493–94

Glover, Dana, 520

Godfrey, Arthur, 168, 190

“Going Home,” 522

Goldstein, Richard, 131

“Go No More A-Roving,” 441–42

Goren, Yoav, 387–88

Gould, Glenn, 515

Governor General's Awards, 102, 223–24, 396–97

Grace,
348

“Graveyard, The,” 458

Grazia, Alfred de, 253

Greatest Hits,
151, 352, 414, 498

Gréco, Juliette, 156, 383

Greenberg, Neal, 451, 509–11

“Greensleeves,” 282

Grossman, Albert, 146, 157

Groves, Lani, 340

“Guerrero,” 287, 298

“Guests, The,” 318, 320, 329

Guthrie, Woody, 164, 192

Guttman, Freda, 39–40, 51, 115

“Gypsy's Wife, The,” 318, 320–21, 329

Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas, Nikos, 80

Hair,
257

Hakopian, Raffi, 318–19, 322–24, 357–58, 433