Buckley's promising career was cut short when he died in 1997, at age 30. His music lives on through posthumous releases, including Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk. Jeff Buckley remains one of ...

Leonard Cohen's Various Positions album was released in 1984 and with it came the song "Hallelujah." The song, though, initially went unnoticed until years later, when it was popularized by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Interestingly, the head of Columbia Records at the time, Walter Yetnikoff, rejected Cohen's 1984 album "Various Positions," which ...

PARK CITY, Utah — Ben Harper first met Jeff Buckley — the revered singer whose haunting cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is arguably the best rendition of that song ever made — at a 1995 rock ...

Even if you've never heard of Leonard Cohen, you've almost certainly heard his song "Hallelujah." Maybe you've heard the version by Jeff Buckley, or John Cale, or Rufus Wainwright, or a contestant on ...

In 1984 — the same year that Bruce Springsteen, Prince and Madonna ruled the pop charts with “Born in the U.S.A.,” “Purple Rain” and “Like a Virgin,” respectively — there was another classic that ...

One of the world’s foremost session and rhythm players, Ella Feingold, explains what most people get wrong about Buckley as a ...

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 ...

Jeff Buckley remains one of music's most fascinating "what-might-have-been" stories. With just a single studio album released before his death at 30, the songwriter left behind a legacy that continues ...