Reading through this thread and coming up against so many wonderful song titles, I truly - as a fan of some 40 years -- can't understand why anyone wouldn't like him. I suppose I can get that his voice can be difficult to appreciate (but I like it) but his lyrics.......

Great line in The Tower of Song - 'I ache in the places where I used to play.......' - such a good line. Whoever referenced the background music in McCabe and Mrs. Miller, if memory serves me right many of the songs on his first album were in that movie -- they made it special.....

He's my hero. One of my Christmas gifts from my husband was a dvd of a tribute concert to Leonard Cohen performed by various Canadian artists -- highly recommended. And surely k. d. lang deserves a mention for her marvellous version of Hallelujah on her Hymns of the North cd?