{"id":26884,"date":"2023-03-25T20:40:49","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T18:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/?p=26884"},"modified":"2023-03-26T13:04:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T11:04:03","slug":"kw-12-2023-unanswered_questions_about_leonard_cohen-12-who-held-a-gun-to-leonard-cohens-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/?p=26884","title":{"rendered":"KW-12-2023: #unanswered_questions_about_Leonard_Cohen (12): Who held a gun to Leonard Cohen&#8217;s head? &#8211; Phil Spector ? Yes !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His album Death of a Ladies&#8216; Man was produced by Phil Spector, the reclusive genius of girl-group pop. &#8222;I was flipped out at the time,&#8220; Cohen said later, &#8222;and he certainly was flipped out. For me, the expression was withdrawal and melancholy, and for him, megalomania and insanity and a devotion to armaments that was really intolerable. In the state that he found himself, which was post-Wagnerian, I would say Hitlerian, the atmosphere was one of guns &#8211; the music was a subsidiary enterprise &#8230; At a certain point Phil approached me with a bottle of kosher red wine in one hand and a .45 in the other, put his arm around my shoulder and shoved the revolver into my neck and said, &#8218;Leonard, I love you.&#8216; I said, &#8218;I hope you do, Phil.'&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His album Death of a Ladies&#8216; Man was produced by Phil Spector, the reclusive genius of girl-group pop. &#8222;I was flipped out at the time,&#8220; Cohen said later, &#8222;and he certainly was flipped out. For me, the expression was withdrawal and melancholy, and for him, megalomania and insanity and a devotion to armaments that was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26884"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26924,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26884\/revisions\/26924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}