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Leonard Cohen in 1976
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The door leading to the control room opened and down the steps came Phil Spector, wearing a blazer decorated with a marijuana leaf pattern. He walked into the recording suite where Leonard Cohen was laying down his vocals and grabbed the singer by the neck. Pressing a gun to the startled Cohen’s skin, the world’s most famous producer said, “Leonard I love you.” “I hope you do,” Cohen shot back.
It was the early hours of the morning at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles. And, not for the first time, Cohen wondered why he had agreed to work with Spector on what would become the Death of a Ladies’ Man album. The 1977 record is today regarded by Cohen fans as a curio. It was certainly a curious experience to make. At least for Cohen, who was confronted throughout by increasingly bizarre behaviour by Spector, the super-producer and convicted murderer who has passed away in prison aged 81.
Died: January 16, 2021. WRITING in his Bob Dylan Encyclopedia some 14 years ago, author Michael Gray, observing that Phil Spector was very young when his father took his own life, says that that event, more than any other, “explains” Spector’s lifetime “of disturbed behaviour. Mad, inspired record producer; seven-stone weakling; gun-toting paranoiac; teen tantrum king; abusive husband and father: this is Phil Spector on a good day”. A few years later, in 2009, after a retrial (the first one, in 2007, had ended in a hung jury), Spector was found guilty of the second-degree murder, in 2003, of Lana Clarkson, an actress he had met the previous evening, at his turreted mansion in a Los Angeles suburb. Clarkson had died of a gunshot wound to the mouth. Spector was sentenced to between 19 years and life. In 2014, in view of his declining health, he was moved from the California State Prison to a healthcare facility; he died at the weekend, aged 81, from complications of C