Es gibt den Film und es gibt das Buch:

The Song Of Leonard Cohen von Filmemacher Harry Rasky aus den 70er Jashren 2001 gab es eine erweiterte Fasung, ergänzt um Tagebücher, die sich um Bob Dylan handeln.

The Song of Leonard Cohen: Portrait of a Poet, a Friendship and a Film — Including the Unpublished Bob Dylan Diaries (Englisch) Taschenbuch – April 2001

von Harry Rasky (Autor)

In the late seventies, filmmaker Harry Rasky was on one wild trip! He soaked in a Jacuzzi at the Four Seasons with Leonard Cohen…he drank wine and talked about the meaning of life with Leonard and Irving Layton at Leonard’s place in Montreal …Harry and Leonard were mistaken for Bader-Meinhof terrorists by soldiers with machine guns while dining at a German Burger King…Harry was also part of the 1979 Field Commander Cohen tour …but best of all, he got everything on film! From the footage of these adventures, Harry Rasky created the acclaimed 1981 documentary film „The Song of Leonard Cohen“. Leonard Cohen called Harry Rasky recently to express his appreciation and admiration for the film.Inspired by that conversation, Rasky has delved into his personal archives and diaries upon which the film is based and has woven them into this moving and powerful text – „The Song of Leonard Cohen“. This book also contains Harry Rasky’s never before published „Bob Dylan Diaries“, based on his notes and observations during the filming of a documentary project that was never completed.

Recently, Leonard Cohen, was in touch with award-winning filmmaker Harry Rasky and expressed to Mr. Rasky his admiration and great delight in the 1982 documentary. Inspired by that conversation, Harry Rasky had now recreated the text of that film, the diaries and interviews upon which the film is based and has woven all the elements into a moving and powerful text on Leonard Cohen. Musician? Poet? Songwriter? Novelist? Entertainer? In „The Song of Leonard Cohen: Portrait of a Poet, a Friendship and a Film, we gain important new insight into the perplexing and critical period of the making of the artist – Leonard Cohen. In addition, the book also contains Harry Rasky’s never before published diaries on Bob Dylan. Harry Rasky was once at work preparing a documentary film on Bob Dylan which was never completed. „In The Song of Leonard Cohen: Portrait of a poet, a Friendship and a Film, we will find – for the first time – new materials on Bob Dylan and the peculiar interconnections between the two poets and songwriters who have altered the course of music history and defined the sensibility of two generations.