![]() ![]() Most memorably, Jeff Buckley’s rendition on his 1994 masterpiece Grace. Right now somebody is performing it in Yiddish. ![]() Right now somebody is mourning and listening to it. Right now somebody is getting married and listening to it. The song is played at funerals and weddings everywhere. Celine Dion, Justin Timberlake, Alicia Keys, Bono, Boni Jovi, Willie Nelson, André Rieu, Susan Boyle are among countless artists with runs on the Hallelujah cover board.Įvery second episode of The Voice and Whatever Country’s Now Got Talent contains a rendition. ![]() Eventually the song went everywhere the music world’s equivalent of a sleeper hit. It’s one of the most covered songs in history and almost certainly one of the most widely misunderstood.Īfter arriving on Cohen’s 1984 album Various Positions, Bob Dylan was one of the first musicians to embrace it. In the middle of the happy-go-lucky 2001 kids movie about a blabbermouth green ogre, accompanied on frolicsome adventures by an ensemble of adorable fairy tale creatures, suddenly we heard the late poet’s profoundly complicated pop culture canticle, Hallelujah. Leonard Cohen meet Shrek, Shrek meet Leonard Cohen. ![]()
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