http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQxjBuGYCiQ
Any distraction would bother Cohen.
The album was treated harshly by critics. Leonard Cohen was the "poet" and "artist."
If Leonard Cohen didn't have access to the masters (owned by Phil Spector) how did he recently sell them to Sony? Why did he have a master tape signed, by Phil, for Larry Levine?