Jul 05 2008
Leonard Cohen – 1966 – This Hour Has Seven Days
I believe it was in the late 1970s when I was part of a team of journalists as a photographer to interview Canadian born singer, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen. He was not in a very talkative mood and he had a hard time with cameras being pointed at him. Actually his Dutch record distributor had made up a list of so many restrictions that I just looked over the shoulder of a colleague for a minute or two to head home again without taking one single picture. I was more than disappointed. I knew most of his lyrics by heart and for some reason I had thought he would read that off my face, allowing me to come closer with my camera. Instead a security guard pushed me to the back row. When I found this early interview on YouTube I realized how Cohen had become the demanding artist he was by the time I first saw him many years later.