Leonard Cohen struggled to unlock the potential of "Hallelujah"—it was John Cale who held the key Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” was a complex, nearly indecipherable musical riddle that flummoxed even ...

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 ...

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 ...

The late Leonard Cohen's best known song, "Hallelujah," took more than a decade to find its audience. Alan Light, author of the "The Holy or the Broken," talks about the unlikely ascent of the song.

John Cale smashes a miniature piano with an axe and lets insects crawl over his face in his creepy “Hallelujah” video. The forlorn track, a cover of Leonard Cohen‘s 1984 classic, appears on an ...

Leonard Cohen was deep in his career when he finally finished “Hallelujah.” Well, the first version of “Hallelujah” — there would be many, many versions when all was said and done. He’d toiled on the ...

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 ...