I'm Your Man (68 page)

Roshi Joshu Sasaki, 84, 186, 222–23, 266, 275, 279–80, 288, 292, 305–6, 315–16, 323, 324, 332, 351, 354, 370, 385–86, 400, 401–2, 405–7, 411–12, 416–19, 423, 425–26, 449, 463, 472, 476, 502, 514, 524–25

Ross, Stan, 304

Rothschild, Jacob, 79–80

Rovina, Ilana, 272–73

Royal Winnipeg Ballet, 231–32

Ruff, Willie, 170

Rushdie, Salman, 423
n,
524

Sainte-Marie, Buffy, 167, 183, 205, 274

Saltzman, Paul, 254, 258

Sanborn, David, 370

Sanders, Ed, 468, 520

Sanfield, Steve, 83–85, 86, 103, 184, 185–86, 222–23, 264, 265–66, 316, 411, 463

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 121–22

Schmidt, Arthur, 195

Scobie, Stephen, 99, 255, 433

Scott, Frank “F. R.,” 41–42, 47, 54, 71, 141–42, 423

Seay, Johnny, 220

Sedgwick, Edie, 155, 180–81, 183

Seeger, Pete, 54, 75, 165

“Seems So Long Ago, Nancy,” 218, 239, 456

Selected Poems 1956–1968,
198, 205, 223–24, 393

“Shaving Ritual,” 57

Shining People of Leonard Cohen,
231–32

Showalter, Allan, 127, 127
n,
133

“Show Me the Place,” 521

Shuchat, Wilfred, 14, 21, 46

Simon, Andrew, 144–45

Simon, John, 184–88, 191–92, 199

Simon, Paul, 184

Sincerely, L. Cohen,
351

“Sing Another Song, Boys,” 247, 248

“Singer Must Die, A,” 282

Sisters of Mercy (band), 351–52

Sisters of Mercy
(musical), 271

“Sisters of Mercy” (song), 151, 187, 191, 192, 194, 197, 252, 410

Six Montreal Poets,
54–55

Sloman, Larry “Ratso,” 285, 289–90, 322, 338–39, 342, 346, 497

Smith, A. J. M., 54

Smith, Harry, 207–9, 217, 285

Smith, Patti, 162, 208

Smokey Life, The
(album). See
Recent Songs

“Smokey Life, The” (song), 317, 321

Snow, Mat, 356

Soldo, Dino, 483, 520

Solidarity movement, 345, 346

“So Long, Marianne,” 169, 186, 187, 191, 192, 194, 204, 264, 465, 499–500, 519

Some Kind of Record
(event), 433–34

“Song of Bernadette,” 323, 350

Song of Leonard Cohen,
324, 325–26

Songs for Rebecca,
287, 288–89, 298, 321, 335

Songs from a Room,
87, 202, 211, 213–19, 240, 245, 248, 309, 484, 499, 520

Songs from the Life of Leonard Cohen,
366

Songs from the Road,
505–6, 516

Songs of Leonard Cohen,
167–71, 186–97, 193, 204, 251

Songs of Love and Hate,
213, 243, 245–49, 382

“Sparrows, The,” 45, 55

Spector, Phil, 285, 292–93, 294–308, 438–39, 453, 455, 466, 470

Spice-Box of Earth, The,
60, 64
n,
76–77, 90, 92, 96–102, 442

Springsteen, Bruce, 376, 484

Steinberg, Arnold, 33–36, 40, 41, 61–62, 74

Stills, Stephen, 147

Stina Möter Leonard Cohen,
413–14

Stone, Oliver, 392

“Store Room,” 186, 291, 498–99

Stormy Clovers, 142, 143, 146, 152

“Story of Isaac,” 176, 218–19

Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs,
320
n,
393–94, 396

“Stranger Song,” 143, 149, 164, 166, 168, 177, 191, 192, 194–95, 252, 337, 469, 486

Straub, Dick, 497

Strip-Tease,
156

“Summertime,” 326

Sutherland, Betty, 47, 65, 68–69

Suzanne.
See
Elrod, Suzanne

“Suzanne” (poem), 126–28

“Suzanne” (song), 126–30, 149–50, 152, 153, 154, 159, 160–61, 163, 166, 168, 170, 172–74, 176, 179, 186, 187, 188, 192, 194, 201, 238, 415, 448–49, 490

“Tacoma Trailer,” 378–79, 438

“Take This Longing,” 162, 274

Take This Waltz
(book), 397

“Take This Waltz” (song), 352–53, 357–58

“Teachers,” 191, 194

Tekakwitha, Catherine “Kateri,” 134, 138, 152

“Tennessee Waltz,” 441

Ten New Songs,
427–32, 434–36, 441, 444, 465–66, 468, 482

“Terez and Deanne,” 208

Terry, Ian, 357

Tétrault, Philip, 452

“Thanks for the Dance,” 466–67, 468

“That Don't Make It Junk,” 432

“There Are Some Men,” 473

“There for You,” 442

“There Is a War,” 272, 277, 287

Thomas, Anjani, 423, 429–30, 459–60, 462, 463–69, 501;
Blue Alert,
454, 465–69, 514;
Dear Heather,
442–43, 444;
The Future,
387;
Old Ideas,
520;
Ten New Songs,
429–30, 432; touring, 340, 344–47, 483;
Various Positions,
340, 343–47, 357

Thomas, Dylan, 229, 497

“Thousand Kisses Deep” (poem), 461–62

“Thousand Kisses Deep, A” (song), 384, 413, 435, 461–62, 492

Three Songs for Chorus a Cappella,
473–74

Tiger, Lionel, 67

Timberlake, Justin, 348, 503

Tiny Tim, 172, 189, 190, 457

“Titles,” 462–63

“To a Teacher,” 442

“To I.P.L.,” 54

“Tonight Will Be Fine,” 218, 238, 252

Tower of Song
(album), 410–11

“Tower of Song” (song), 358, 359, 360, 371, 382, 457, 470, 484, 507

“Traitor, The,” 318, 321

Trocchi, Alexander, 100–102, 119

Trudeau, Pierre, 115, 244, 397, 433

“True Love Leaves No Traces,” 99, 300, 466

Tunström, Göran, 85

Turner, Steve, 236

“Un Canadien Errant,” 319–20

“Undertow,” 443

Ungar, Leanne, 278, 340, 341, 372, 387–89, 395, 426, 427–28, 430–33, 441, 443, 482

Vaillancourt, Armand, 115, 124, 125, 126, 129

Valenti, Dino, 214

Van Ronk, Dave, 225

Various Positions,
333–49, 356, 361, 370, 388

Vaughan, Stevie Ray, 349–50

Vega, Suzanne, 351, 410

Velikovsky, Immanuel, 252–54

Velvet Underground, 155, 157

Verdal, Suzanne, 124–30

Vicious, Sid, 162, 205

Vick, Richard, 103–4, 104–5, 292

Vidal, Gore, 205

“Villanelle for our Time,” 423, 430

Vincent, Warren, 188

Vizinczey, Stephen, 112

Wainwright, Martha, 438

Wainwright, Rufus, 348, 438, 456–57, 459, 514–15

“Waiting for the Miracle,” 358, 377, 389, 392, 429

Waits, Tom, 285, 376, 505

Walesa, Lech, 345

Walter, Nicolas, 140
n

Warhol, Andy, 155, 157–58, 162, 180–83, 189, 392

Warnes, Jennifer, 316, 326, 376, 483;
Famous Blue Raincoat,
349–51, 357, 361;
The Future,
387;
I'm Your Man,
357–58, 360–61;
Old Ideas,
521;
Recent Songs,
318–19, 322–24; touring, 257, 260, 262, 322–24;
Various Positions,
340, 343

Washburn, Donna, 257

Watkins, Mitch, 322–24, 344–45

Weaver, Robert, 99

Webb Sisters, 485–86, 491–94, 500, 519, 520

Weisbrodt, Jörn, 514–15

Weisz, Sharon, 360–62, 367

Westmount High, 10, 20, 21, 24, 32–33, 37, 497

“Who by Fire,” 283, 371

“Why Don't You Try,” 277, 282

Wieseltier, Leon, 188, 435, 444

Wilburn, Neil, 213

Wildflowers,
151, 179

Williams, Hank, 217, 506

Willner, Hal, 370–71, 383, 437–40, 455–58, 469, 470

Wilson, Milton, 53, 122

“Window, The,” 318, 320, 320
n,
325

“Winter Lady,” 174, 186, 191

Wirberg, Agreta, 413

Wisse, Ruth, 38, 53

“Wizard of Is,” 174

Woolf, Virginia, 110

Wright, Edna, 387

Yetnikoff, Walter, 342

York, Willie, 220, 226

You Do Not Have to Love Me
, 353
n

“You Know Who I Am,” 186, 201–2, 210, 237–38, 268, 499

Young, Neil, 173

“Your Father Has Fallen,” 164

Zach, Natan, 80

Zappa, Frank, 189, 258, 303, 353

Zeffirelli, Franco, 225

Zembaty, Maciej, 344–45

Zemel, Carol, 183

Zemel, Henry, 63–64, 142–43, 183, 211–12, 215, 217, 229–30, 252–54, 270, 506

Zirkel, Steve, 364–67

About the Author

SYLVIE SIMMONS is an award-winning writer and one of the foremost music journalists working today. Born in London, she moved to Los Angeles in the late seventies and started writing about rock music for magazines such as
Sounds, Creem, Kerrang!
and
Q
. She is the author of acclaimed fiction and nonfiction books, including the biography
Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful of Gitanes
and the short-story collection
Too Weird for Ziggy
. She has lived at various times in England, the United States and France, and she currently lives in San Francisco, California, where she writes for
MOJO
magazine and plays the ukulele.

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Photo of Leonard Cohen backstage at Joni Mitchell concert. Copyright © 1969 by Joel Bernstein.

Photo of Leonard Cohen backstage on the Leonard Cohen 1970 tour. Copyright © 1970 by Joel Bernstein

Excerpts from
Let Us Compare Mythologies
by Leonard Cohen. Copyright © 1956 by Leonard Cohen. Reprinted by permission of Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

Excerpts from
The Favorite Game
by Leonard Cohen. Copyright © 1964 by Leonard Cohen. Reprinted by permission of Viking.

Excerpts from
The Spice-Box of Earth
by Leonard Cohen. Copyright © 1961 by Leonard Cohen. Reprinted by permission of McClelland & Stewart.

Excerpt from
Beautiful Losers
by Leonard Cohen. Copyright © 1966 by Leonard Cohen. Reprinted by permission of Random House.

Excerpts from
Flowers for Hitler
by Leonard Cohen. Copyright © 1964 by Leonard Cohen. Reprinted by permission of McClelland & Stewart.

Excerpts from
The Energy of Slaves
by Leonard Cohen. Copyright © 1972 by Leonard Cohen. Reprinted by permission of McClelland & Stewart.

Excerpts from
Death of a Lady's Man
, by Leonard Cohen. Copyright © 1978 by Leonard Cohen. Reprinted by permission of McClelland & Stewart.

“Lover Lover Lover,” written by Leonard Cohen, used by permission of Sony/ATV Music Publishing.

Excerpt from
Book of Mercy
by Leonard Cohen. Copyright © 1984 by Leonard Cohen. Reprinted by permission of McClelland & Stewart.

Excerpts from
Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
by Leonard Cohen. Copyright © 1993 by Leonard Cohen. Reprinted by permission of McClelland & Stewart.

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Book of Longing
, by Leonard Cohen. Copyright © 2006 by Leonard Cohen. Reprinted by permission of Ecco, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

Excerpts from unpublished works of Leonard Cohen. Copyright © Leonard Cohen, used by permission of the author.

“Comme un Guerrier.” Copyright © Christian Fevret,
Les Inrockuptibles
, August 21, 1991, reproduced in
Throat Culture
, 1992, trans. Sophie Miller, used by permission,
Throat Culture
.

Prophet of the Heart
. Copyright © L. S. Dorman and C. L. Rawlins, Omnibus, 1990, used by permission, Omnibus.

“A Conversation with Leonard Cohen.” Copyright © Arthur Kurzweil Jewish Book Club, 1994, by permission of the author.

“My Life Without Leonard Cohen.” Copyright © Ruth Wisse,
Commentary
, October 1995, used by permission of the author.

So Long, Marianne: Ei Kjaerleikshistorie
. Copyright © Kari Hesthamar, Spartacus, 2008, used by permission of the author.

Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters of Jack McClelland
, ed. Sam Solecki, Key Porter Books, 1998, used by permission of the author.

Leonard Cohen
. Copyright © Michael Ondaatje, McClelland & Stewart, 1970, used by permission of McClelland and Stewart.

Interview with Leonard Cohen,
ZigZag
, October 1974. Copyright © Robin Pike, used by permission of the author.

Interview with Leonard Cohen,
Soho Weekly News
, December 1974. Copyright © Danny Fields, used by permission of the author.

Leonard Cohen: Tower of Song
. Copyright © Kevin Howlett, BBC Radio One, August 7, 1994, by permission of producer/interviewer Kevin Howlett.

Songwriters on Songwriting
. Copyright © Paul Zollo, 1992, revised edition, Da Capo, 2003, used by permission of the author.

John Hammond and Irving Townsend, On Record
, Ridge Press/Penguin US & UK, 1981, reprinted courtesy of the Estate of John Hammond.

Interviews with Leonard Cohen,
Melody Maker
, 1975 and
LA Phonograph
. Copyright © Harvey Kubernik, 1977, used by permission of author.

Bird on a Wire
. Copyright © Tony Palmer, 1974/2011, used by permission of filmmaker

Leonard Cohen Under Review 1934–1977
. Copyright © Chrome Dreams, used by permission of Chrome Dreams.

Interview with Leonard Cohen,
High Times
, February 1980. Copyright © Larry “Ratso” Sloman, used by permission of the author.

Conversation in Montreal 1984
. Copyright © Robert Sward, used by permission of the author.

Famous Last Words from Leonard Cohen
. Copyright © Paul Saltzman, 1972, used by permission of the author.

Yakety Yak
. Copyright © Scott Cohen, Simon & Schuster, 1994. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster.

Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan
. Copyright © Howard Sounes, Grove, 2001. Reprinted by Permission of Grove/Atlantic.

Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen
. Copyright © Ira B. Nadel, Bloomsbury, 1996, Reprinted by permission of Bloomsbury US, a division of Bloomsbury Publishing.