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Wednesday Dec 22, 2021
Episode 82: ”Leonard Cohen and ‘Hallelujah.‘”
Wednesday Dec 22, 2021
Wednesday Dec 22, 2021
Leonard Cohen's “Hallelujah” has been covered by more than 300 other artists in virtually every genre, including Willie Nelson, k.d. lang, Justin Timberlake, Bono, Brandi Carlile, and Bon Jovi, to name a few. Hell...the song was even in “Shrek”! But the song was originally stuck on side two of 1984’s Various Positions, an album that Cohen’s record label deemed unfit for release. In fact, Walter Yetnikoff, the head honcho at CBS Records told Cohen “Leonard, we know you’re great but we don’t know if you’re any good.”
“Hallelujah” is arguably Cohen’s biggest and most beloved song, as well as one of the most covered songs in history.
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