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Prisoner in Disguise
I just noticed that today is Linda Ronstadt’s birthday. Hope it’s a happy one. I spent an afternoon with her a few months back and really enjoyed her company. She’s a very warm woman, forthright and...
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Leader of the pack
Motorcycles ran in my family. My dad didn’t have a car, he drove a motorbike and sidecar – mum riding pillion, kids in the sidecar, heads poked out of the soft plastic window, which was too...
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The silence between two thoughts
“Do you want to know what the ambition of our generation is, Wanda? We all want to be Chinese mystics living in thatched huts, but getting laid frequently.” – Leonard Cohen, The Favourite Game, 1963....
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Happy birthday Woodstock. I was a kid in London when you were busy being stardust and golden. I’d never been to America – never been anywhere farther than Boulogne on the ferry – but as soon as I got...
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It was two and a quarter years ago, with the first edition of I’m Your Man The Life of Leonard Cohen about to come out, when I had the crazy dream of going on the road with my book and a ukulele,...
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From the Secret Alley
On a dark street in San Francisco’s Mission District, just a few steps from the fancy restaurants and bars yet light years away, a locked, unmarked door leads across a jigsaw-puzzle floor and up...
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New Year’s News
Hi, Sylvie here. Happy new year! Hope it’s a good one for you. So far mine’s been a whirlwind – just as it was at the end of 2014, nonstop shows, interviews and radio sessions. In fact just this...
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Confessions from Colombia
Here I am, in Cartagena, Colombia, being interviewed for a local TV news show. I’m sitting with Manuela, the host of the show, in a confession box in the old Santa Clara nunnery. Tell the truth or...
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My last day in Cartagena, I woke up to a very nice mention in the newspaper describing my performance of Leonard Cohen’s songs as “magisterial”. It was a beautiful morning, already 80 degrees and the...
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Solomon Burke and the dollar bill
I can’t remember how the subject came up – I guess a friend must have posted something on Facebook about having found themselves alone in an elevator with a celebrity and I was reminded of an incident...
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