From: Kelley Lynch <kelley.lynch.2010@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 6:48 PM
Subject: Leonard Cohen & Another Version Of The Phil Spector Gun Story
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Date: Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 6:48 PM
Subject: Leonard Cohen & Another Version Of The Phil Spector Gun Story
To: Dennis <Dennis@riordan-horgan.com>, "*irs. commissioner" <*IRS.Commissioner@irs.gov>, Washington Field <washington.field@ic.fbi.gov>, ASKDOJ <ASKDOJ@usdoj.gov>, "Kelly.Sopko" <Kelly.Sopko@tigta.treas.gov>, "Doug.Davis" <Doug.Davis@ftb.ca.gov>, rbyucaipa <rbyucaipa@yahoo.com>, Robert MacMillan <robert.macmillan@gmail.com>, moseszzz <moseszzz@mztv.com>, a <anderson.cooper@cnn.com>, wennermedia <wennermedia@gmail.com>, "Hoffman, Rand" <rand.hoffman@umusic.com>, Mick Brown <mick.brown@telegraph.co.uk>, woodwardb <woodwardb@washpost.com>, "glenn.greenwald" <glenn.greenwald@guardiannews.com>, lrohter <lrohter@nytimes.com>, "Francisco.A.Suarez" <Francisco.A.Suarez@verizon.net>
Mr. Riordan,
I'm looking, at my attorney's request, for examples of Cohen's vile and obscene work. I would like you to look at this interiew. This is very serious. Cohen gives very specific details here. The gun incident evidently did not happen in the studio - although that's inconceivably bizarre. Apparently, at 3 AM Phil spector went to Leonard Cohen's PLACE with a bottle of wine.
This is just beyond outrageous.
Love,
Kelley
Going back to Death Of A Ladies' Man, you said at that time, "Sometimes the heart must roast on the fire like a shish kebab." That seems to have been a messy time for you. The making of the LP now seems dominated by all that surrounded it. There's that story that it was virtually recorded at gunpoint.
"Well, Phil (Spector) had a lot of guns all over the place. You'd always be tripping over bullets that had fallen out of guns. Once I challenged one of Phil's bodyguards to draw on me. It got that tense. My state of mind was only slightly less demented that Spector's at the time."
Wasn't this a time of great personal tragedy for you?
"I don't know if I'd dignify my condition by the use of the word tragedy. When I was writing the album with Phil, it was all very agreeable. He is a very charming and hospitable man. Though he did lock the doors when you visited him so you couldn't leave without his permission. Outside of that, he was a very sweet guy. As far as the actual record went, it was definitely the most painful to make because I lost control of it. Phil would confiscate the tapes every night under armed guard. There was a lot of love in the air though, curiously enough. Phil is a very affectionate person if you manage to penetrate the extremities of his expression. At one time, at three o'clock in the morning, he came over to my place with a bottle of red wine in one hand and a .45 in the other. He put his arm around my shoulder, shoved the .45 into my neck and said, 'Leonard, I love you.' I said, 'Phil, I sincerely hope you do!' I had the notion of hiring my own private army and fighting it out with them on Sunset Boulevard but I was a coward in those days."
