Sylvie Simmons
Author of I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen
About the Author
Sylvie Simmons is an award-winning writer and one of the foremost music journalists working today. Born in London, she moved to Los Angeles in the late seventies and started writing about rock music for magazines such as Sounds, Creem, Kerrang!, and Q. She is the author of acclaimed fiction and show more nonfiction books, including the biography Serge Gainshourg: A Fistful of Gitanes and the short-story collection Too Weird for Ziggy. She has lived at various times in England, the United States, and France, and she currently lives in San Francisco, where she writes for MOJO magazine and plays the ukulele. show less
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- UK
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- London, England, UK
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
France
San Francisco, California, USA
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- music journalist
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- Sounds
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- 13
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- Popularity
- #34,104
- Rating
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- 54
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Partway through the book I listened to one of the famous old Leonard Cohen songs, and then put on an album of his hits to understand better what the book was describing. I can't say that it did anything for me, but the book was still enjoyable through to the very last page.… (more)