6/6/2023 0 Comments I'm Your Man by Sylvie Simmons![]() ![]() ![]() But she brings to this book so much of herself, not least her own formidable wit and writing skills, her own mischievousness – a match for Leonard’s no doubt – her own love of language and then the stripes she earned covering so much music across almost every popular genre for the last 30+ years. Simmons of course had the benefit of seeing some of the mistakes in print from those that tried before her, so that helped her in knowing to avoid/correct them. This is the best book that will ever be written about Leonard Cohen. Sylvie Simmons is not the first Cohen biographer – but she is the best. Which must of course mean there are a fair few lies in there. And everything he says is totally believable in that voice. With Cohen, mostly, you can tell he’s doing that on purpose, as the voice has deepened over the years there’s even a bit of extra tongue for the cheek, the sardonic lines all but drip from the page – or, if reinterpreted for song, the stage. We only know so much about Leonard Cohen from his poems and songs – he is both diarist and then in the truest sense of autobiography he is the unreliable narrator. ![]()
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