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The song was the subject of a 2012 book, The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley & the Unlikely Ascent of 'Hallelujah'; author Alan Light said that Cohen's "approach to language and craft feel unlike the work of anybody else. They sound rooted in poetry and literature because he studied as a poet and a novelist first."
Various Positions is the seventh studio album by Leonard Cohen, released in December 1984 (and February 1985).It marked not only his turn to a modern sound and use of synthesizers (particularly on the opening track), but also, after the harmonies and backing vocals from Jennifer Warnes on the previous Recent Songs (1979), an even greater contribution from Warnes, who is credited with Cohen as ...
Leonard Cohen performs at England's Manchester Opera House in 2008. His 1984 song "Hallelujah" has been covered innumerable times by a wide variety of artists. (Shirlaine Forrest / WireImage)
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song, from filmmakers Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine stresses that many artist cover the poplar tune, like Jeff Buckley, ultimately the Canadian artist is ...
A deep dive into the origin story of the singer's best-known song — and its unlikely ascension into the pop canon — doubles as a portrait of an artist as an accidental genius
Captain Underpants is an illustrated children's novel series by American author and illustrator Dav Pilkey.The series revolves around two fourth graders, George Beard and Harold Hutchins, living in Piqua, Ohio, and Captain Underpants, an aptly named superhero from one of the boys' homemade comic books, who accidentally becomes real when George and Harold hypnotize their cruel, bossy, and ill ...
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.”
I'm Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen is a tribute album to Leonard Cohen, released in 1991, produced by the French music magazine Les Inrockuptibles. [7] The album features Cohen's songs interpreted by some of the most respected rock acts of the time. [8] Its name is a play on the title of Cohen's album I'm Your Man.