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14.
Sandra Djwa,
Ubyssey,
February 3, 1967.

15.
Ibid.

16.
Milton Wilson,
Toronto Quarterly,
July 1965.

17.
Paul Kennedy,
The Story of Suzanne,
CBC TV Canada, 2006.

18.
Ian Pearson,
Saturday Night,
March 1993.

19.
Interview with Kevin Howlett,
Leonard Cohen: Tower of Song,
BBC Radio One, August 7, 1994.

20.
Brian D. Johnson,
Maclean's,
June 11, 2008.

21.
Richard Goldstein,
Village Voice,
December 28, 1967.

22.
Susan Lumsden, “Leonard Cohen Wants the Unconditional Leadership of the World,” September 12, 1970, reproduced in Michael Gnarowski,
Leonard Cohen: The Artist and His Critics,
McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1976.

23.
Cohen, letter to editor at Yilin Press, China, regarding the foreword to a Chinese edition of
Beautiful Losers,
February 2000, Archive.

24.
Ibid.

25.
Cohen, letter to McClelland, March 20, 1965, Archive.

26.
Lumsden, “Leonard Cohen Wants.”

27.
Jon Ruddy,
Maclean's,
October 1, 1966.

28.
Goldstein,
Village Voice.

29.
Christian Fevret,
Les Inrockuptibles,
August 21, 1991, reproduced in
Throat Culture,
1992, trans. Sophie Miller.

30.
Cohen, letter to McClelland, August 1965, Archive.

Eight:
A Long Time Shaving

Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Bob Fass, Jac Holzman, Marianne Ihlen, Penny Lang, Tom Maschler, Henry Zemel

Books and films: Donald Brittain and Don Owen,
Ladies and Gentlemen . . . Mr. Leonard Cohen,
National Film Board of Canada, 1965. Leonard Cohen,
Beautiful Losers,
1966. Leonard Cohen,
Parasites of Heaven,
1966. Kari Hesthamar,
So Long, Marianne: Ei Kjaerleikshistorie,
Spartacus, 2008. Jack McClelland,
Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters of Jack McClelland,
ed. Sam Solecki, Key Porter Books, 1998. Ira B. Nadel,
Various Positions,
Bloomsbury, 1996. Michael Ondaatje,
Leonard Cohen,
McClelland & Stewart, 1970. Harry Rasky,
Song of Leonard Cohen,
documentary film, 1980.

Chapter heading: Leonard Cohen, in Brittain and Owen, 1965.

1.
Sandra Djwa,
Ubyssey,
February 3, 1967.

2.
Interview for CBC with Phyllis Webb, cited in Ondaatje, 1970.

3.
Jack McClelland, letter to Cohen, June 1965, reprinted in McClelland, 1988.

4.
Jack McClelland, letter to Cohen, May 1966, reprinted in McClelland, 1988.

5.
Nicolas Walter,
Times Literary Supplement
, April 23, 1970.

6.
Irving Layton, in
Chatelaine,
September 1983.

7.
Barbara Amiel,
Maclean's,
September 18, 1978.

8.
Paul Zollo,
Songwriters on Songwriting,
1992, revised edition, Da Capo, 2003.

9.
Nadel, 1996.

10.
Ondaatje, 1970.

11.
Cohen, interview with Adrienne Clarkson,
Take 30,
CBC TV, 1966.

12.
Robert Fulford,
Toronto Daily Star,
1966.

13.
Jon Ruddy,
Maclean's,
October 1, 1966.

14.
Interview on
The John Hammond Year
s
,
BBC, September 20, 1986.

15.
Leonard Cohen,
The Best of Leonard Cohen
liner notes, 1975.

16.
Zollo, 2003.

17.
Cohen, letter to Marianne Ihlen, December 4, 1966, reprinted in Hesthamar, 2008.

18.
Christian Fevret,
Les Inrockuptibles,
August 21, 1991, reproduced in
Throat Culture,
1992, trans. Sophie Miller.

19.
Harry Rasky,
The Song of Leonard Cohen: Portrait of a Poet, a Friendship and a Film,
Souvenir Press, 2001.

20.
Cohen, letter to Marianne Ihlen, December 1966, published in Hesthamar, 2008.

Nine:
How to Court a Lady

Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, David Crosby, Danny Fields, Lou Reed, Jackson Browne, Bob Johnston, John Simon, Jac Holzman, Aviva Layton, Thelma Blitz, Larry Cohen, Bob Fass, Marianne Ihlen, Juan Rodriguez, Joel Bernstein, Nancy Bacal, Erica Pomerance

Books, films and documents: Artist's cards, Columbia Records Archive. Patti Smith,
Just Kids,
Ecco, 2010. John Hammond and Irving Townsend,
On Record,
Ridge Press/Penguin US & UK, 1981. Kari Hesthamar,
So Long, Marianne: Ei Kjaerleikshistorie,
Spartacus, 2008. Mary Martin televised interview, Louise Scruggs Memorial Forum, Country Music Hall of Fame, November 17, 2009.

Chapter title: Leonard Cohen, at Henderson Hospital Concert, UK, August 1970.

1.
Leonard Cohen, Henderson Hospital concert, UK, August 1970, taped by Ian Milne.

2.
Reed, interview with the author, 2005.

3.
Browne, interview with the author, 2008.

4.
Ibid.

5.
Ibid.

6.
Ibid.

7.
Ibid.

8.
John Walsh,
MOJO,
September 1994.

9.
Prologue to live performance of “Joan of Arc,” Paris, October 20, 1974, leonardcohen-prologues.com.

10.
Ibid.

11.
Prologue at Henderson Hospital concert, UK, August 1970.

12.
Smith, 2010.

13.
Hammond and Townsend, 1981.

14.
Cohen, letter to Marianne Ihlen, February 23, 1967, Ihlen private collection.

15.
Cohen, letter to Marianne, April 9, 1967, Ihlen private collection.

16.
Ibid.

17.
Cohen, letter to Marianne, April 12, 1967, Ihlen private collection.

18.
John Hammond and Leonard Cohen, BBC radio interview, September 20, 1986.

19.
Ibid.

20.
Harry Rasky,
The Song of Leonard Cohen: Portrait of a Poet, a Friendship and a Film,
Souvenir Press, 2001.

21.
Layton, interview with the author.

22.
Robert Enright,
Border Crossings
7, February 2001.

23.
Mark Ellen,
Word,
July 2007.

24.
Enright,
Border Crossings,
2001.

25.
Robert Fulford,
This Was Expo,
McMaster Libraries, 1968.

26.
Leonard Cohen, liner notes to
Greatest Hits/The Best of Leonard Cohen,
1975.

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

28.
Hammond and Townsend, 1981.

29.
Susan Nunziata,
Billboard,
November 28, 1998.

Ten:
The Dust of a Long Sleepless Night

Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, John Simon, Marianne Ihlen, Danny Fields, Steve Sanfield, David Lindley, Chris Darrow, Chester Crill

Books, documents and films: Artist's cards, Columbia Records Archive. Armelle Brusq,
Mount Baldy, Spring '96,
documentary film, 1997. Kari Hesthamar,
So Long, Marianne: Ei Kjaerleikshistorie,
Spartacus, 2008.

Chapter heading: Leonard Cohen, “One of Us Cannot Be Wrong,”
Songs of Leonard Cohen,
1968.

1.
SS, 2001.

2.
Leonard Cohen, “This is for you,” later published in
Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
, 1993.

3.
Brusq, 1997.

4.
SS, 2001.

5.
Paul Grescoe,
Montreal Gazette,
February 10, 1968.

6.
John Hammond and Leonard Cohen, BBC radio interview, September 20, 1986.

7.
Prologue at concert in Antwerp, April 1988, leonardcohen-prologues.com.

8.
Arthur Schmidt,
Rolling Stone,
September 2, 1971.

9.
Donal Henahan,
New York Times,
January 29, 1968.

10.
Karl Dallas,
Melody Maker,
February 17, 1968.

11.
Ibid.

12.
Ibid.

13.
Jacoba Atlas,
Beat,
March 9, 1968.

14.
William Kloman,
New York Times,
January 28, 1968.

15.
Playboy,
November 1968.

Eleven:
The Tao of Cowboy

Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, David Crosby, Bob Johnston, Marianne Ihlen, Terese Coe, Liberty, Thelma Blitz, Danny Fields, Kris Kristofferson, Steve Sanfield, Richard Vick, Terry Oldfield, Henry Zemel, Bill Donovan, Ron Cornelius, Charlie Daniels

Books, films and documents: Artist's cards, Columbia Records Archive. Leonard Cohen,
Selected Poems 1956–1968,
Jonathan Cape, 1969. Bob Dylan,
Chronicles: Volume One,
Simon & Schuster, 2004. Lian Lunson,
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man,
documentary film, Lionsgate, 2005. Michael Ondaatje,
Leonard Cohen,
McClelland & Stewart, 1970.

Chapter heading: SS.

1.
Prologue at concert in Paris, June 6, 1976, leonardcohen-prologues.com.

2.
Prologue at concert in Nuremberg, May 10, 1988, leonardcohen-prologues.com.

3.
Lunson, 2005.

4.
Dylan, 2004.

5.
Rainer Blome, trans. Nick Townsend,
Sounds,
1969.

6.
Prologue at Henderson Hospital concert, UK, August 1970.

7.
Leonard Cohen,
Selected Poems 1956–1968,
dust jacket of U.S. first edition, Viking, 1968.

8.
Ondaatje, 1970.

9.
SS, 2001.

10.
Blome, 1969.

11.
Michael Harris,
Duel,
Winter 1969.

12.
Ibid.

13.
SS, 2001.

14.
Alec Dubro,
Rolling Stone,
May 17, 1969.

15.
William Kloman,
New York Times,
April 27, 1969.

Twelve:
O Make Me a Mask

Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Suzanne Elrod, David Cohen, Steve Sanfield, Danny Fields, Bob Johnston, Charlie Daniels, Ron Cornelius, Mort Rosengarten, Bill Donovan, Ian Milne, Kris Kristofferson, Jeff Dexter, Murray Lerner

Film and documents: Artist's cards, Columbia Records Archive. Murray Lerner,
Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970,
CD and documentary film, Columbia Legacy, 2009.

Chapter heading: Dylan Thomas, “O Make Me a Mask,” 1938.

1.
Paul Saltzman, “Famous Last Words from Leonard Cohen,”
Maclean's
, June 1972.

2.
Archive.

3.
Pamela Andriotakis and Richard Oulahan,
People,
January 14, 1980.

4.
Archive.

5.
SS, 2001.

6.
Gavin Martin,
NME,
October 19, 1991.

7.
Harvey Kubernik,
Melody Maker,
March 1, 1975.

8.
Robin Denselow
,
Guardian,
May 11, 1970.

9.
Archive.

10.
Nancy Erlich,
Billboard,
August 8, 1970.

11.
Steve Turner,
NME,
June 29, 1974.

12.
Lerner, 2009.

Thirteen:
The Veins Stand Out Like Highways

Author interviews with: Leonard Cohen, Suzanne Elrod, Charlie Daniels, Ron Cornelius, Joe Boyd, Chris Darrow, Chester Crill, David Lindley, Henry Zemel, Brian Cullman, Bob Johnston, Bill Donovan, Peter Marshall, Steven Machat, Liberty, Steve Sanfield, Tony Palmer

Books, films and documents: Artist's cards, Columbia Records Archive. Leonard Cohen,
The Energy of Slaves,
McClelland & Stewart, 1972. Tony Palmer,
Bird on a Wire,
documentary film, 1974. Henry Zemel,
Bonds of the Past,
documentary film, 1972.

Chapter heading: Leonard Cohen, “Dress Rehearsal Rag,”
Songs of Love and Hate,
Columbia, 1971.

1.
SS, 2001.

2.
Roy Shipston,
Disc & Music Echo,
November 14, 1970.

3.
John Walsh,
MOJO,
September 1994.

4.
Martin Walker,
Guardian,
November 8, 1972.

5.
SS, 2001.

6.
Karl Dallas,
Melody Maker,
May 22, 1976.

7.
Paul Saltzman, “Famous Last Words from Leonard Cohen,”
Maclean's,
June 1972.

8.
Leonard Cohen, “I have no talent left,”
The Energy of Slaves,
June 1972.

9.
Cohen, “The poems don't love us anymore,” Ibid.

10.
Cohen, “How we loved you,” Ibid.

11.
Cohen, “You are almost always with someone else,” Ibid.

12.
Cohen, “The 15-year-old girls,” Ibid.

13.
Times Literary Supplement,
January 5, 1973.

14.
Stephen Scobie,
Leonard Cohen,
Douglas & McIntyre, 1978.

15.
Saltzman, 1972.

16.
Palmer, 1974.

Fourteen:
A Shield Against the Enemy

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