LEONARD COHEN CONTINUES
April 16, 2019
The first time I met Leonard was in a hotel room in midtown Manhattan. It was late November of 1974. I was a fledgling reporter for Rolling Stone. He was a poet and a songwriter whose early albums had garnered him a vast audience in Europe but not so vast in the States. And he was pissed. His fourth album, New Skin for the Old Ceremony was about to be…