“Hallelujah” was written by Leonard Cohen, but Jeff Buckley made it magnificent. It is the sixth track of his only complete studio album, “Grace.” At the beginning of “Hallelujah,” right before he ...

Alan Light’s The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley and the Unlikely Ascent of “Hallelujah” explores how a random album track on Jeff Buckley’s commercial flop Grace— written by an old ...

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 ...

The music of singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley will always contain an undercurrent of hypothetical, what-if energy. As frequently highlighted in the new documentary about his life, so much of Buckley's ...

When it comes to Leonard Cohen’s 1984 song “Hallelujah,” most people fall into two camps: You’ve heard it via Jeff Buckley or via Shrek. If you’re part of that very small minority that my husband, a ...

“Hallelujah” continued making inroads into other genres of music. Country stars LeAnn Rimes, Brett Young, and Wynonna all performed the song. The night after Leonard Cohen’s death was announced, Keith ...

Both these musicians have a cult following. Even longtime music aficionados may never have heard about either of them. Amy Berg’s fine documentary “It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley,” is a tribute to ...

This review of “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song” first appeared when the film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2021. Like the blind men of lore groping to understand an elephant ...

Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” has been performed and recorded by hundreds of artists from U2, Justine Timberlake, and Celine Dion to Renee Fleming and Willie Nelson, and Rolling Stone named it one of ...