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BookLovers: Simmons pens definitive biography of rock poet Leonard Cohen. BookLovers October 13, 2012 12:00 AM Sex, God and Depression. This is the Holy Trinity of Leonard Cohen. I've always had this image of Cohen as a holy man coming to his senses after a night of Greek bacchanalia. Sylvie Simmons only confirmed my notion after I read her new biography, "I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen" (2012). You cannot write about Cohen, one of the great poet/singer/philosophers and Lotharios of our time, she says, without untangling these three topics: Sex: Berlin, 1972. The next night in Frankfurt, the concert ended with "Leonard laying on the floor and people laying on top of him, writhing like a pile of worms. But while other rock stars may have done something equally outrageous and felt no shame, Cohen — like the holy man stumbling home after the party — told filmmaker Tony Palmer backstage solemnly: "I've disgraced myself.

" Krishna, lived in a Buddhist monastery for five years in his '60s, studied Hinduism with a guru in India. Daley: I did see that! M83 » Official website, ticket and merch store. The Flaming Lips. Music « Joey Fehrenbach. Joey Fehrenbach. My Animal Home. APPARAT. Spiritualized. HOLY OTHER's sounds.

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