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- Written by Cohen — a Jewish Buddhist — the song was first associated with Christmas in 2010, when Britain’s Got Talent sensation Susan Boyle included it on her 2010 holiday album, The Gift, which hit No. 1 on both the Billboard 200 and on the Official U.K. Albums Chart.
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"Hallelujah" is a song written by Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, originally released on his album Various Positions (1984). Achieving little initial success, the song found greater popular acclaim through a new version recorded by John Cale in 1991.
Dec 5, 2023 · Leonard Cohen ’s “ Hallelujah ,” with its ambiguous, imagistic lyrics about sex and spirituality, was once described by Jeff Buckley, perhaps the song’s most famous interpreter, as “the...
Dec 4, 2012 · The song and the album went largely unnoticed until 1997—when both took on a new, haunting significance after Jeff Buckley drowned in the Wolf River in Tennessee.
- Ashley Fetters
Apr 22, 2024 · Despite the song never having been released as a single, Rolling Stones magazine was sufficiently impressed to vote it as the 259th greatest song of all time in 2004. Buoyed by the album’s popularity, and five years later, in 2007, Jeff Buckley’s version of “Hallelujah” was released as a single. Sales were phenomenal.
- Amber Mullins
At the bar, an executive from Columbia Records happened to be in the audience, heard the song, signed the singer, and had Buckley record his version of Hallelujah for a 1994 studio album. That's...
May 30, 2022 · If Leonard Cohen built a tower of just one song, it was “Hallelujah” — the subject of a film that hits theaters in July, “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song.”
Jul 15, 2022 · From weddings and funerals, to popular TV shows like The O.C. and movies like Shrek, the late Canadian musician Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah” is one of the most popular pieces of...
