I'm Your Man (Leonard Cohen Album) - Song Covers

Song Covers

• On the soundtrack to Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man, there are two versions of "Tower of Song". One appears as a sparse live version by Martha Wainwright and the other a more elaborate studio recording by Leonard Cohen and U2. In the latter, Bono sings the second last verse while a deep-voiced Cohen does the rest.
• Aaron Neville, who had earlier recorded Cohen's "Bird on the Wire", contributed a cover of "Ain't No Cure for Love" for the tribute album Tower of Song.
• "Everybody Knows" was covered by Concrete Blonde on the soundtrack to the 1990 film Pump Up the Volume. The original version was the main theme played on the film, although only the cover by Concrete Blonde was released in the official soundtrack.
• "Everybody Knows" was covered by ex-Eagle Don Henley on Tower of Song.
• The 1991 indie rock tribute album I'm Your Fan takes its name from the pathos-filled love song title track "I'm Your Man".
• R.E.M. contributed "First We Take Manhattan" to I'm Your Fan. They also released it as an extra track on their 1992 CD single "Drive".
• Bill Pritchard performed the song for the same tribute.
• Pixies covered "I Can't Forget" for I'm Your Fan.
• In 1986, an early mix of "Take This Waltz" reached #1 in the Spanish charts (as a single off the Federico García Lorca tribute album Poets in New York). The words were translated by Cohen from García Lorca's poem "Pequeño vals vienés".
• "Take this Waltz" was also covered by Enrique Morente on his 1996 album Omega, performed with Lagartija Nick and other musicians. Morente used the original Lorca's poem "Pequeño vals vienés" and new musical arrangements.
• A very abstract cover of "Tower of Song" was recorded by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds for I'm Your Fan.
• "Tower of Song" has also been covered by Robert Forster, Marianne Faithfull, Tom Russell, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Tom Jones and Howe Gelb.
• Michael Bublé covered "I'm Your Man" in 2007 for his album Call Me Irresponsible. Joe Cocker also covered this song on his album One Night of Sin in 1989
• Dax Riggs has performed live cover versions of "I'm Your Man" and "Tower of Song".
• Native artist Florent Vollant covered "Everybody knows", which he translated in Innu, for his album, Katak.
• Norwegian gothic metal band Sirenia covered "First We Take Manhattan" on Sirenian Shores EP.
• Mohanlal sings "I'm Your Man" in the 2011 Malayalam movie Pranayam directed by Blessy.