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Artist: Leonard Cohen
Author: Leonard Cohen
Label: CBS
Year: 1984
On Various Positions. There's a film about this song: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song (Sony '22).
Covers:
Jeff Buckley [and in '95 in medley with I Know It's Over (see there); n°2 UK in the slipstream of the Alexandra Burke hype]
Rufus Wainwright [on soundtrack film Shrek]
Alexandra Burke [n°1 UK; X Factor winner]
Wasis Diop [as l'Ange Djibril]
Il Divo [as Aleluya]
Nynke Laverman [Fries version]
Lisa [X Factor NL]
Frank van Etten [in Dutch]
Gabriel Rios & Natalia [charity single for Haiti earthquake victims]
André van Duin [as Alle Koeien]
Sarah McLachlan [on yet another Cohen tribute]
Continuous covering levitated this song in no time into what Cohen calls the Tower of Song. Obviously too fast for some: A warning on the mixing desk of the Hotel Café in L.A. reads: "Please do not sing Hallelujah".
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)