“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Hope you’re still getting submissions. I just wanted to plug another ...
PARK CITY, Utah — Ben Harper first met Jeff Buckley — the revered singer whose haunting cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is arguably the best rendition of that song ever made — at a 1995 rock ...
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 ...
Despite what its title suggests, Daniel Algrant's new drama, Greetings From Tim Buckley, concerns itself less with salutations than pointed farewells, the singer/songwriter not so much present as ...
The difficulty that Buckley faced was in producing a second LP that would have been superior to Grace. Judging by the collection of offcuts and demos that were eventually released, Sketches for My ...
Like the blind men of lore groping to understand an elephant by focusing on a tail or a tusk or an ear, filmmakers have tended to approach the late singer, songwriter, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen ...
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 ...
The spirit of Jeff Buckley lives on… as an NFT. Guitar World reports that Muse frontman Matt Bellamy recently purchased the 1983 blonde USA Fender Telecaster that Buckley played on his 1994 album ...