No song exists strictly within the milieu that the songwriter imagined for it. The magic of music is in the silent, but very real, interaction between the artist and the audience members, who are free ...

Then it was the 2001 animated film Shrek that really brought a new wave of popularity to “Hallelujah,” with two different recordings. Neither of them was Buckley’s, although it was his that music fans ...

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 ...

Grant Gershon conducts the Los Angeles Master Chorale in Rachmaninoff's "All Night Vigil," in which Hallelujah takes on an intimate, mystical quality. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) It ...

Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is one of the most-covered songs in the world, but it took a few different people to make it that way. Do you remember the first time you heard “Hallelujah?” Was it in ...

How an unlikely standard by a Jewish Buddhist got cast as a Christmas song. By Alan Light Since the business of Christmas music is growing so fast – it occupies six of the top 10 places on the ...

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.

Bob Dylan has written his fair share of universally beloved tracks, so his reverence for “Hallelujah” means that much more. Dylan tried this ballad on for size in a live setting. Dylan delivered these ...

Leonard Cohen, who has died aged 82, is known to most people through his epic song Hallelujah, external. It took him years to get it right and he later described the process as "banging his head on ...

We ranked the top 50 cover versions of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah for you! “Hallelujah is a Hebrew word which means, ‘Glory to the Lord,’” the late Leonard Cohen once noted when asked about ...