John Hammond was particularly generous in the way that he read a newspaper continuously while you were struggling in the studio. A lot of people felt that this was an expression of indifference or even boredom with the whole affair, but I cherished it because he gave you the feeling that you…
On the sleeve of I’m Your Man stands Leonard Cohen, unsmiling in his traditional raiment of anthracite hue, stern beak protruding from beneath dark glasses, the black-out curtains of the soul. All that spoils this picture of judgmental dread is a solemnly clasped banana, a joke worthy of Steve…