Leonard Cohen spent years struggling with his song "Hallelujah." He recalls being in a New York hotel room in his underwear, "banging my head on the floor and saying, 'I can't finish this song.' " He ...
An autistic girl from Ireland has grabbed a lot of attention with a hauntingly beautiful Christmas rendition of Leonard Cohen’s classic “Hallelujah” a little over a month after the late singer’s death ...
NEW YORK — It's hard to think of any song that has taken a stranger journey through popular culture than Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah." Recorded in 1984, it was on the only Cohen album rejected by his ...
Leonard Cohen’s masterpiece has become the closest thing pop music has to a sacred text Leonard Cohen spent almost two years writing Hallelujah, blackening two notebooks with some 80 verses before ...
NEW YORK — It’s hard to think of any song that has taken a stranger journey through popular culture than Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” Recorded in 1984, it was on the only Cohen album rejected by his ...
When the late Leonard Cohen delivered “Various Positions,” the album that included “Hallelujah,” which in time would become his most famous song, the record label executives recoiled in distaste and ...
Leonard Cohen has written many excellent songs: “Suzanne,” “Bird on the Wire” and “Dance Me to the End of Love” to name a few. But “Hallelujah” has achieved escape velocity. As Alan Light chronicles ...