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TIL Phil Spector repeatedly pointed loaded guns at Leonard Cohen while producing one of his albums. At one point Spector shoved a revolver into his neck while holding a bottle of kosher red wine and said, ‘Leonard, I love you.’ Leonard Cohen responded by saying ‘I hope you do, Phil.'

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