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 dkzn rated 17 months ago - leonard and bob over coffee
leonard cohen interview
chelsea hotel#2? ... I came to New York and I was living at other hotels and I had heard about the Chelsea Hotel as being a place where I might meet people of my own kind. And I did. [Laughs] It was a grand, mad place. Much has been written ...
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- dkzn rated 17 months ago
- leonard and bob over coffee
leonard cohen interview
chelsea hotel#2? ... I came to New York and I was living at other hotels and I had heard about the Chelsea Hotel as being a place where I might meet people of my own kind. And I did. [Laughs] It was a grand, mad place. Much has been written about it.
that song was written for janis joplin? ... It was very indiscreet of me to let that news out. I don't know when I did. Looking back I'm sorry I did because there are some lines in it that are extremely intimate. And since I let the cat out of the bag, yes, it was written for her.
hallelujah? ... That was a song that took me a long time to write. Dylan and I were having coffee the day after his concert in Paris a few years ago and he was doing that song in concert. And he asked me how long it took to write it. And I told him a couple of years. I lied actually. It was more than a couple of years. Then I praised his "I and I" and asked him how long it had taken and he said, "Fifteen minutes." [Laughter]
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