Home / Music / Leonard Cohen wanted sparse; John Simon added strings anywayMusic linernotes album music leonard-cohenLeonard Cohen wanted sparse; John Simon added strings anywayThe main creative disagreement on Songs of Leonard Cohen was over arrangement — Cohen wanted a sparse sound, but producer John Simon added strings, horns, and drums anyway. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesSongs of Leonard Cohen spent a year and a half on the UK Albums ChartThe back cover of Songs of Leonard Cohen features a Mexican religious image found in a botánicaLeonard Cohen banned drums from his first albumA Casio keyboard inspired Leonard Cohen's synth-pop turnI'm Your Man was recorded across two cities in four monthsExploreBROCKHAMPTON recorded Saturation III at their own factory.Lee Morgan recorded Search for the New Land at Van Gelder Studio.Kaija Saariaho's Six Japanese Gardens premiered in Tokyo in 1995.Joni Mitchell recorded Song to a Seagull at Sunset Sound in 1968.Tim Buckley recorded Starsailor at Whitney Studios in 1970.Previous Leonard Cohen's Songs of Leonard Cohen arrived at the end of 1967 on ColumbiaNext Leonard Cohen recorded his debut at Columbia Studio A in New York.