Sylvie Simmons: 3 books

Singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen is one of the most important and influential musical artists of the past fifty years—and one of the most elusive. In I’m Your Man, journalist Sylvie Simmons, one of the foremost chroniclers of the world of rock ’n’ roll and popular music, explores the extraordinary...

Quand Serge Gainsbourg a été trouvé mort dans son lit en mars 1991, la France est entrée en deuil. Il était « notre Baudelaire, notre Apollinaire » a déclaré le chef de l’État français. « Il a élevé la chanson au rang d’art. » Les drapeaux flottaient à mi-mât un symbole moins approprié...

In “Pussy,” the girl singer of the eponymous band cracks up after her lover and the band’s creative center dies. When her manager tracks her down she is living anonymously in an East Village tenement, rarely going outdoors, and hoarding her own discarded hair, dead skin and other physical castoffs.In...