“He was feeding…a little bird that he’d found that had fallen out of the nest” Rufus Wainwright Meets Leonard Cohen For First Time

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I constantly feel that [starstruck] around Leonard Cohen. I’m quite good friends with his daughter [Lorca]. Every time I see him, I’m always nervous. He has an incredible magnetism, his whole aura and persona. The first time I met him, he was in his underwear. Not skimpy underwear, but he had a shirt on and his boxer shorts. He was feeding a little bird, a little bird that he’d found that had fallen out of the nest, and he was giving it little sausages. Biting up the little pieces of sausage, and, like, regurgitating it, like a mother bird would.1

 

Rufus Wainwright

 

Note: Rufus Wainwright & Lorca Cohen would, of course, become the parents of Viva Katherine Wainwright Cohen on February 2, 2011.

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“Oh my god, it’s Leonard Cohen”

In Lian Lunson’s documentary, Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man, Rufus Wainwright describes this same event, adding to the above account that he then lost sight of Mr Cohen, who reappeared later clad in “full Armani dress,” causing him to “literally jump out of my seat. I was, like, ‘Oh my god, it’s Leonard Cohen.'”

 

Credit Due Department: Photo by Ben Coombs – Rufus Wainwright live At Rock Werchter, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikipedia Commons

I am republishing selected posts from my former Leonard Cohen site, Cohencentric, here on AllanShowalter.com (these posts can be found at Leonard Cohen). This entry was originally posted Apr 17, 2016.
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  1. Rufus On Top by Shelly Ridenour (Nylon: May 2001). []

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