Ray Padgett, "Various Artists' I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen "
English | ISBN: 1501355066 | 2020 | 168 pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 1501355066 | 2020 | 168 pages | PDF | 3 MB
When I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen hit stores in 1991, Leonard Cohen's career had plummeted from its revered 1960s high. Cohen's record label had refused to release his 1984 album Various Positions–including the song "Hallelujah"–in the United States. Luckily, Velvet Underground founder John Cale was one of the few who did hear "Hallelujah," and he covered it for I'm Your Fan, a collection of Cohen's songs produced by a French fanzine. Jeff Buckley adored the tribute album and covered Cale's cover in 1994, never having heard Cohen's still-obscure original version.
In 2016,
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