Something peculiar is happening in popular music this week, and it is all thanks to the power of one quite extraordinary song. Hallelujah is a deceptively simple track, with lyrics which are a ...

When Leonard Cohen died on November 7, 2016, he’d recently declared that Bob Dylan’s receipt of the Nobel Prize for literature was like “pinning a medal on Mount Everest” – but it could just as easily ...

THREE versions of Hallelujah are vying for the Christmas No1 spot. X Factor winner Alexandra Burke's single will have to fend off Jeff Buckley's version and Leonard Cohen's original. Now all three are ...

In the late 1970s, Leonard Cohen sat down to write a song about god, sex, love, and other mysteries of human existence that bring us to our knees for one reason or another. The legendary ...

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen has asked for a brief respite from new versions of his classic “Hallelujah,” arguing the large number of artists covering the song and its ...

TORONTO — A casual conversation about music on Thursday’s episode of Global’s The Morning Show sparked a debate about who recorded the best version of “Hallelujah.” Montreal-born Leonard Cohen wrote ...