I'm Your Man

Cohen gets the music biography he truly deserves * Mojo *Simmons’ clear affection for her subject helps to illuminate Cohen’s motivations and working methods and gives an intriguing insight into his singular mind * Sunday Times *The year’s most meticulous, elegant and satisfying rock book * Independent *Simmons loves language, hates cliché and takes her time… [she] recreates long-gone incidents with such vigour that you’d swear Simmons was there at the time, sitting in the corner and taking notes * Guardian *A well-rounded portrait of the poet-singer…his dry wit finds an echo in Simmons’s phrase-making * Financial Times *Magnificently detailed and affectionate * Daily Telegraph *Enthralling, meticulously researched…definitive volume on the guy right at the top of the tower of song * Observer *Simmons’ stunning biography leaves you wanting more: more on Cohen, more from Cohen an more music biographis as meticulously researched and engagingly written as this…there is no shortage of Cohen studies out there, now there’s no need for any more * Record Collector *An absorbing and well-rounded biography of the downbeat Canadian troubadour * Sunday Telegraph *Simmons – a music journalist of impeccable pedigree – triumphantly rises to all challenges * Spectator *

Sylvie Simmons is a renowned music journalist and award-winning writer. A Londoner, she moved to LA in the late seventies where she began writing about rock music for Sounds, Creem and Kerrang!, then Rolling Stone, the Guardian and MOJO. She is the author of fiction and non-fiction books, including the acclaimed Serge Gainsbourg- A Fistful of Gitanes, Neil Young- Reflections in Broken Glass and the short story collection Too Weird for Ziggy. She currently lives in San Francisco, where she plays ukulele and still writes for MOJO.

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