Published to coincide with Leonard Cohen's exclusive show at London's The O2 on Friday 21 June 2013. This book contains exclusive material and interviews making it THE biography to buy on Leonard Cohen - singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist.
Sylvie Simmons is a renowned music journalist and award-winning writer. A Londoner, she moved to LA in the late seventies where she began writing about rock music for Sounds, Creem and Kerrang!, then Rolling Stone, the Guardian and MOJO. She is the author of fiction and non-fiction books, including the acclaimed Serge Gainsbourg- A Fistful of Gitanes, Neil Young- Reflections in Broken Glass and the short story collection Too Weird for Ziggy. She currently lives in San Francisco, where she plays ukulele and still writes for MOJO.
Cohen gets the music biography he truly deserves
*Mojo*
Simmons’ clear affection for her subject helps to illuminate
Cohen’s motivations and working methods and gives an intriguing
insight into his singular mind
*Sunday Times*
The year’s most meticulous, elegant and satisfying rock book
*Independent*
Simmons loves language, hates cliché and takes her time... [she]
recreates long-gone incidents with such vigour that you’d swear
Simmons was there at the time, sitting in the corner and taking
notes
*Guardian*
A well-rounded portrait of the poet-singer…his dry wit finds an
echo in Simmons’s phrase-making
*Financial Times*
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