Foreword | Suzanne Vega
PART I: THE SIXTIES AND SEVENTIES
Cohen draws attention with his poetry and fiction, then picks up a guitar and delivers classics like “Suzanne,” “Sisters of Mercy,” “Bird on the Wire,” and “Famous Blue Raincoat.”
TV Interview | ADRIENNE CLARKSON
May 23, 1966, Take 30, CBC (Canada)
After the Wipeout, a Renewal | SANDRA DJWA
February 3, 1967, The Ubyssey (Vancouver, Canada)
Ladies & Gents, Leonard Cohen | JACK HAFFERKAMP
Late 1970, interview; February 4, 1971, Rolling Stone (US)
Famous Last Words from Leonard Cohen (The Poet’s Final Interview, He Hopes) | PAUL SALTZMAN
June 1972, Maclean’s (Canada)
Cohen Regrets | ALASTAIR PIRRIE
March 1973, interview; March 10, 1973, New Musical Express (UK)
Leonard Cohen | PAT HARBRON
Summer 1973, interview; December 1973, Beetle (Canada)
Depressing? Who? Me? | STEVE TURNER
June 29, 1974, New Musical Express (UK)
Interview | ROBIN PIKE
September 15, 1974, interview; October 1974, ZigZag (UK)
Interview | JORDI SIERRA I. FABRA
October 12–14, 1974, interview; 2005, Leonard Cohen (book, Spain)
Leonard Cohen: The Romantic in a Ragpicker’s Trade | PAUL WILLIAMS
March 1975, Crawdaddy! (US)
Suffering for Fan and Profit: The Return of Leonard Cohen | MICK BROWN
May 24, 1976, interview; July 3, 1976, Sounds (UK)
Leonard Lately: A Leonard Cohen Interview | BILL CONRAD
Fall 1976, interview; May 7, 2012, nodepression.com
The Obscure Case of Leonard Cohen and the Mysterious Mr. M. | BRUCE POLLOCK
Late 1976, interview; February 1977, After Dark (US)
What Happened When Phil Spector Met Leonard Cohen? | HARVEY KUBERNIK
January 1978, The Los Angeles Phonograph (Los Angeles)
PART II: THE EIGHTIES
Cohen offers only two studio albums, but they feature such monumental works as “Hallelujah,” “I Can’t Forget,” and “Tower of Song.”
TV Interview | PATRICK WATSON
February 1 and 8, 1980, Authors, CBC (Canada)
Encountering Cohen | STEVE VENRIGHT
May 1983, interview; August 1983, Shades (Toronto)
Radio Interview | VICKI GABEREAU
May 1984, interview; September 6, 1984, Variety Tonight, CBC (Canada)
Interview | ROBERT SWARD
December 1984, interview; December 1986, Malahat Review (Canada)
Interview | KRISTINE McKENNA
January 1985, interview; 2001, Book of Changes (US)
TV Interview | RAY MARTIN
May 24, 1985, The Midday Show with Ray Martin, Nine Network
(Sydney, Australia)
Songs and Thoughts of Leonard Cohen | ROBERT O’BRIAN
January 1987, interview; September 1987, RockBill (US)
Len | JON WILDE
December 1987, interview; February 1988, Blitz (UK)
Interview | KRISTINE McKENNA
March 1988, interview; May 6, 1988, L.A. Weekly (Los Angeles)
Leonard Cohen: The Profits of Doom | STEVE TURNER
April 1988, Q (UK)
I’m Your Man | ALBERTO MANZANO
May 1988, Rockdelux (Spain)
Dinner with Leonard | ELIZABETH BOLEMAN-HERRING
June 18, 1988, interview; September 1988, The Athenian (Greece)
Radio Interview | TOM SCHNABEL
July 13, 1988, Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW-FM (Santa Monica,
California)
Radio Interview | KRISTINE McKENNA
October 1988, Eight Hours to Harry, KCRW-FM (Santa Monica,
California)
PART III: THE NINETIES
Cohen issues The Future and a book of poems and songs, then climbs Mount Baldy to try out the life of a monk.
Leonard Cohen and the Death of Cool | DEBORAH SPRAGUE
November 1991, interview; spring 1992, Your Flesh (US)
The Smoky Life | JENNIE PUNTER
January 1992, Music Express (North America)
Leonard Cohen: Inside the Tower of Song | PAUL ZOLLO
February 1992, interview; April 1993, SongTalk (US)
TV Interview | BARBARA GOWDY
November 19, 1992, OTV (Ontario, Canada)
The Loneliness of the Long-Suffering Folkie | WAYNE ROBINS
November 22, 1992, Newsday (New York)
Growing Old Passionately | ALAN JACKSON
November 22, 1992, The Observer (London)
Leonard Cohen: The Lord Byron of Rock and Roll | KAREN SCHOEMER
November 29, 1992, The New York Times (New York)
The Future | ALBERTO MANZANO
May 1993, interview; spring 1993, El Europeo (Spain)
Radio Interview | VIN SCELSA
June 13, 1993, Idiot’s Delight, WXRK-FM (New York)
The Prophet of Love Looks into the Abyss: A Conversation with Leonard Cohen | THOM JUREK
August 18, 1993, Metro Times (Detroit)
“I Am the Little Jew Who Wrote the Bible” | ARTHUR KURZWEIL
November 23, 1993, interview; January 1994, The Jewish Book News (US)
Radio Interview | CHRIS DOURIDAS
December 1993, Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW-FM (Santa Monica, California)
Interview | RICHARD GUILLIATT
December 12, 1993, The Sunday Times Magazine (London)
TV Interview | STINA LUNDBERG DABROWSKI
September 1997, Swedish National Television (Scandinavia)
TV Interview | VALERIE PRINGLE
October 28, 1997, W5, CTV (Canada)
PART IV: THE NEW MILLENNIUM
Down from the mountain, Cohen enjoys a fresh outlook on life—and the biggest successes of his half-century career.
TV Interview | STINA LUNDBERG DABROWSKI
Early 2001, Swedish National Television (Scandinavia)
Happy at Last: The Poet Returns from his Zen Retreat with a New Album and a Sunnier Disposition | J. POET
November 2001, Pulse! (US)
Exile on Main Street | BRETT GRAINGER
November 2001, Elm Street (Canada)
The Prince of Prurience and Loss | JOHN LELAND
November 2001, GQ (US)
Brother of Mercy | MIKAL GILMORE
Late 2001, interview; March 2002, Spin (US)
Radio Interview | SHELAGH ROGERS
February 7, 2006, Sounds Like Canada, CBC (Canada)
Life of a Ladies’ Man | SARAH HAMPSON
May 26, 2007, The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
He’s Your Man | GILLIAN G. GAAR
June 2007, Harp (US)
Cohen Wore Earplugs to a Dylan Show? | BRIAN D. JOHNSON
June 4, 2008, interview; June 12, 2008, macleans.ca (Canada)
TV and Radio Interview | JIAN GHOMESHI
April 16, 2009, Q with Jian Ghomeshi, QTV (Quebec), CBC Radio One (Canada)
“All I’ve Got to Put in a Song Is My Own Experience” | DORIAN LYNSKEY
January 19, 2012, The Guardian (London)
The Works of Leonard Cohen
About the Contributors
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