Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen: Cohen's New Skin

Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, March 1975

LOS ANGELES: "For a while, I didn't think there was going to be another album. I pretty well felt that I was washed up as ...

Leonard Cohen: The Future

Review by Cliff Jones, Rock CD, December 1992

THE CRITICAL REHABILITATION of the man they used to call Captain Mandrax is one of rock's more unexpected twists in recent years. ...

Leonard Cohen part 1 (1988)

Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages Audio, February 1988

Laughing Lennie talks to Mat Snow about songwriting, meditiation and religion, the collapse of literary culture, and the misperception of him as a Gloom Merchant.

File format: mp3 File size: 22.7mb Interview length: 24 minute 48 seconds Sound quality: ***

Leonard Cohen part 2 (1988)

Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages Audio, February 1988

In this part of Mat Snow's interview, Lennie talks about music as therapy, ambiguity, songwriting and 'My Way': Sinatra vs Vicious

File format: mp3 File size: 28.1mb Interview length: 30 minutes 42 seconds Sound quality: ***

Leonard Cohen - part 3 (1988)

Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages Audio, February 1988

Lennie talks to Mat Snow about his relationship with the press, Montreal, the idealism of '68, and the rise of the post-punk Cult of Cohen.

File format: mp3 File size: 27.3mb Interview length: 29 minutes 48 seconds Sound quality: ***

Leonard Cohen...The Man

Profile by Ellen Sander, Sing Out!, August 1967

LEONARD COHEN, Canadian born author, poet, songwriter, singer, the subject of a film. Leonard Cohen, incredibly handsome, immensely articulate tough-tender young man of our times. ...

Leonard Cohen: Songwriter Who Got Into Folk By Accident

Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, February 1968

WHEN THE new album by the uncrowned queen of the non-folk, Judy Collins, is issued this month a lot of people will start talking again ...

Cohen, Cohen, Gone: Leonard Cohen

Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, February 1973

"LET'S sing a song, boys. . . . This one has grown old and bitter"– fragment from Songs of Love and Hate ...

Leonard Cohen: Rock Poetry Had A Lot Of Promise, Back Five And Six Years Ago.

Interview by Mike Jahn, New York Times Special Features Syndication, June 1973

DYLAN WAS at his peak, writing his brilliant "doomsday poems," and revolutionizing popular music. Colleges by the scores offered courses regarding pop song lyrics as ...

Depressing? Who? Me?

Profile and Interview by Steve Turner, NME, June 1974

Nervous? Tense? So’s Leonard Cohen. In fact, he’s so miserable he’s even given up suicide. Steve Turner attempts to pin down the Beautiful Loser himself, ...

Leonard Cohen: New Skin For The Old Ceremony; Carole King: Wrap Around Joy

Review by Bob Woffinden, NME, September 1974

THE LATEST saga in the Great American Singer/Songwriter Conspiracy, Jewish Division, in which Cohen and King are chief protagonists. ...

Leonard Cohen: The Romantic in a Ragpicker's Trade

Interview by Paul Williams, Crawdaddy!, March 1975

"I THINK MARRIAGE is the hottest furnace of the spirit today," Leonard Cohen said on the phone from Mexico. "Much more difficult than solitude, much ...

Leonard Cohen

Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, March 1976

LEONARD COHEN'S GREATEST Hits is an interesting album to contemplate when one remembers that Cohen was in his mid-thirties when he began to make records, ...

Leonard Cohen: Cohen Down the Road

Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, May 1976

GOD'S IN his heaven, all's right with the world. The words, surprisingly enough, came from Leonard Cohen, and he was making the first of several ...

The Return of Leonard Cohen

Profile and Interview by Mick Brown, Sounds, July 1976

THE POSTER outside the Colston Hall, Bristol announced the appearance that evening of "The Poet of Rock and Roll". ...

The Obscure Case of Leonard Cohen and The Mysterious Mr. M.

Interview by Bruce Pollock, After Dark, February 1977

AS I HUSTLED up Sixth Avenue toward the Algonquin Hotel for an interview with Columbia recording artist Leonard Cohen, writer of such heavyweight literary pop ...

Leonard Cohen: Death OF A Ladies Man

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, November 1977

'LEONARD COHEN meets Phil Spector' sounds more like a line from a Lester Bangs article than something you would ever expect to actually become manifest ...

What Happened When Phil Spector Met Leonard Cohen?

Report and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, LA Phonograph, January 1978

LEONARD COHEN – singer, songwriter, guitarist, poet, novelist, and sometime straight faced spokesman of the hilarious ironies of the human condition – walks into the ...

Haunted By Spector: Leonard Cohen

Interview by Chris Bohn, Melody Maker, January 1980

Leonard Cohen’s voyage to the bottom of his soul is over. He’s back on top and is finding rock’n’roll fun too... ...

Lenny and Jenny Sings Lenny

Interview by Biba Kopf, NME, March 1987

A LEONARD COHEN song is the dark disaster that brings on the light. A slow and irresistible force, the rich laval flow of his voice ...

Jennifer Warnes: Famous Blue Raincoat (RCA)

Review by Len Brown, NME, June 1987

THE TOTAL exhumation and resurrection of Leonard Cohen gathers alarming pace. Here Jennifer Warnes, one-time backer to ole grumble-guts, runs through nine of laff-a-lifetime-Len's golden ...

Jennifer Warnes: Famous Blue Raincoat (RCA)

Review by Len Brown, NME, June 1987

THE TOTAL exhumation and resurrection of Leonard Cohen gathers alarming pace. Here Jennifer Warnes, one-time backer to ole grumble guts, runs through nine of laff-a-lifetime-Len's ...

Leonard Cohen: Crocodile Tears

Interview by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, January 1988

LET'S TALK misconceptions. Like the one about Cleopatra being Egyptian (she was Greek), Christmas being a time for giving (take take take), Ben Elton and ...

Leonard Cohen: Cohen's Way

Profile and Interview by Mat Snow, Guardian, The, February 1988

WE LIVE IN THE days of the flood, says Leonard Cohen. "Most of my psychic landmarks have evaporated. I'm reluctant to apply the psychic realm ...

Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man

Review by Mark Cooper, Q, March 1988

LEONARD COHEN HAS spent 53 years perfecting the art of being Leonard Cohen, poet of romantic despair. A self-declared "ladies' man" in his songs, Cohen's ...

Leonard Cohen: The Profits Of Doom

Interview by Steve Turner, Q, April 1988

HIS SINGING VOICE is only slightly more tuneful than the low rumble of his speaking voice. His melancholy outlook attracts the special attention of the ...

Leonard Cohen's Impeccable Chop

Interview by Mark Dery, Frets, November 1988

FROM HIS 1967 debut, The Songs Of Leonard Cohen, to his tenth and latest release, I'm Your Man, Canadian singer-guitarist Leonard Cohen has traveled to ...

Leonard Cohen

Profile and Interview by Mark Dery, Keyboard, September 1989

"MOST MUSIC criticism," griped Leonard Cohen in a recent Musician interview, "is...so far behind, say, the criticism of painting. Nobody is identifying our popular singers ...

Leonard Cohen: Porridge? Lozenge? Syringe?

Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, 1991

He's been a poet and songwriter for more than 40 years, but Leonard Cohen still can't find a rhyme for 'orange'. "It drives you mad," ...

Leonard Cohen On Songwriting

Interview by Paul Zollo, from 'Songwriters On Songwriting', 1992

WE ARE SITTING Indian-style on the second floor of Leonard Cohen’s home in Los Angeles. On his bookshelf are many books that he’s written himself, ...

The Loneliness of the Long-Suffering Folkie: Leonard Cohen

Interview by Wayne Robins, Newsday, November 1992

ON HIS NEW ALBUM The Future (Columbia), Leonard Cohen views history's changing currents with more than a little bit of wariness. "Give me back the ...

Leonard Cohen: The Future

Review by Edwin Pouncey, NME, November 1992

THIS RECORD HAS taken its creator, poet/songwriter/musician Leonard Cohen, four years to complete. A collection of seven originals and two cover versions that Cohen and ...

Heavy Cohen

Interview by Cliff Jones, Rock CD, December 1992

WRINKLED, GREY, HUMOROUS and urbane, wearing a crumpled suit and a huge pair of coke bottle specs that magnify his lacquered brown eyeballs to an ...

Leonard Cohen: The Future (Columbia)

Review by Andy Gill, Q, January 1993

THE PROJECT bears a logo, or more accurately a sort of heraldic device, comprising hummingbird, heart and handcuffs: is this how Leonard Cohen views the ...

Leonard Cohen: Hello! I Must Be Cohen

Interview by Gavin Martin, NME, January 1993

THE SPLENDID LUNCHTIME repast lies before us, Leonard Cohen is gobsmacked by plenitude, overcome by abundance. ...

Leonard Cohen: Inside the Tower of Song

Profile and Interview by Paul Zollo, SongTalk, April 1993

I said to Hank Williams, "How lonely does it get?"Hank Williams hasn't answered yet.but I hear him coughing all night long,a hundred floors above me ...

When the Cohen Gets Tough: Leonard Cohen, the Existential Serenader, Is Still Glad to Be Glum

Live Review by Andy Gill, Independent, The, May 1993

Leonard Cohen: Royal Albert Hall, London ...

Leonard Cohen: Cohen Live

Review by Andy Gill, MOJO, August 1994

LEONARD COHEN'S LITTLE NICHE IN THE marketplace has expanded somewhat over the last decade – and mercifully so. Being the bedsit prophet of gloom is ...

Leonard Cohen: More Best Of (Columbia)

Review and Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, November 1997

A CATCH-UP collection of the best of the past couple of decades for those who fell in love with, or to, early Len and may ...

Field Commander Cohen: Tour of 1979 (Columbia)

Review by Martin Colyer, Rock's Backpages, March 2001

Coming off the extraordinary experience of making Death of a Ladies Man in 1977 with Phil Spector (being locked up in the studio, having a ...

Utah Saints: Sundance Music Festival

Interview by Steven R Rosen, Harp, May 2006

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Leonard Cohen

Overview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, February 2008

FOR DECADES, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Leonard Cohen has been a global poetic force and influential songwriter. ...

Leonard Cohen: Opera House, Manchester

Live Review by Stephen Dalton, Times, The, June 2008

MORE THAN 15 YEARS have passed since Leonard Cohen last graced a British stage, but the 73-year-old poet-turned-crooner was on suave form at the start ...

Hallelujah, We Love Him So: Leonard Cohen's Comeback

Report by Johnny Black, Audience, September 2008

How the world's pre-eminent septuagenarian Jewish Buddhist singer-poet staged 2008's most remarkable comeback. ...

Leonard Cohen: Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Colorado

Live Review by Steven R Rosen, Denver Post, June 2009

IF LEONARD COHEN, now 74, intends to retire from performing after his current tour, he couldn't have picked a better venue for his final North ...

"Hello, Cleveland!"

Comment by Phil Sutcliffe, Yahoo Music, June 2009

COMMUNICATION WITH a large audience is a tricky business. ...