pWhen iI'm Your Fan The Songs of Leonard Cohen ihit 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 iVarious Positionsi--including the song Hallelujah--in the United States. Luckily, Velvet Underground founder John Cale was one of the few who ididi hear Hallelujah, and he covered it for iI'm Your Fani, 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. pIn 2016, iStereogumi labeled the tribute album possibly the most universally derided format in pop music. However, without a tribute album, you wouldn't know the song Hallelujah. Through Buckley through Cale, Hallelujah is now one of the most often-performed songs in the world--and it wouldn't be without this tribute album. iI'm Your Fan ithus offers a particularly notable example of a much broader truth Des