@charlesandkeef I thought something about this photo seemed familiar (not in the sense that I’d seen it before exactly but something similar) and then I realized the Voodoo Lounge bed photo is just a redux of this in a different environment/with a slightly different band configuration:
“I met him [Leonard Cohen] once, when I presented an award to him on behalf of PEN. He was such a sweet man. I even have a photograph of myself being kissed by him. One of my most prized possessions.”-Salman Rushdie (Montreal Gazette, 2017)
"Leonard Cohen kissed me. Actually, this may be the most remarkable photograph I’ve ever been in."-Salman Rushdie (2021)