The Untold Truth Of Leonard Cohen

At 222 West twenty third Road in New York Metropolis lies the notorious Resort Chelsea, which is the place numerous artists, writers, rock stars, and starlets have lived, created, liked, and even died. “I got here to New York and I used to be dwelling at different inns and I had heard in regards to the Chelsea Resort as being a spot the place I would meet individuals of my very own type,” Leonard Cohen informed SongTalk in 1993 (through Rolling Stone). “And I did. It was a grand, mad place.”

One night time within the spring of 1968, Cohen discovered himself within the resort elevator with none apart from Janis Joplin. “My lungs gathered my braveness,” he recalled in 1988 (through Rolling Stone). “I stated to her, ‘Are you searching for somebody?’ She stated ‘Sure, I’m searching for Kris Kristofferson.’ I stated, ‘Little woman, you’re in luck, I’m Kris Kristofferson.’ … We fell into one another’s arms via some means of elimination.”

The artists’ fling solely lasted that one night time, they solely bumped into one another a couple of occasions thereafter, and Joplin died of an overdose two years later, in 1970. In 1971, Cohen started immortalizing that night time by writing a couple of lyrics on a cocktail serviette, which might grow to be one among his most notable songs, “Chelsea Resort #2.” He revealed that the music was about Joplin throughout a 1976 live performance, however grew to remorse it. “There was the only real indiscretion, in my skilled life, that I deeply remorse,” he informed the BBC in 1994 (through Rolling Stone).