The words to leonard cohen's hallelujah5/12/2023 ![]() It’s an interestingly stitched together film that starts at the end - his final performance in 2013, singing “Hallelujah,” of course - and rewinds to the beginning of his songwriting career to trace how he got there. ![]() ![]() Now, four decades after its initial recording, it’s downright ubiquitous, a regular feature in movies, television shows, and singing competitions around the world. ![]() What would become Cohen’s seminal anthem was dead on arrival.īut in the new documentary “ Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song,” in theaters Friday, directors Dayna Goldfine and Dan Gellar examine how despite the odds, the song managed to take on a life of its own thanks, in varying degrees, to Bob Dylan, John Cale, Jeff Buckley and Shrek. Yet when he submitted the album, “Various Positions,” to his longtime record company Columbia Records in 1984, the company’s president Walter Yetnikoff decided not to release it in the U.S. ![]() He’d toiled on the lyrics for seven years. 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. ![]()
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