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, 348n
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, 499n, 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), 195n, 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
Bonds of the Past, 254
Bono, 410, 457, 469
“Boogie Street,” 435–36, 490
Book of Longing (book), 409, 412n, 418n, 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, 348n, 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, 147n, 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, 271n, 307, 310–12
“Death to This Book,” 271n, 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, 2
87–88, 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, 49n, 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, 160n, 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, 257n
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
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