Leonard Cohen’s signature song, “Hallelujah,” had its journey to music immortality stopped almost at birth by a record executive. The chief of Cohen’s label, Columbia, vetoed the finished album ...

Above : The documentary “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song” is scheduled to open Friday at the Magic Lantern Theatre. (Photo/Sony Pictures Classics) Many music-minded documentary features ...

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 ...

“Hallelujah” is unusual. The man who wrote it, Leonard Cohen, opined that it is “a good song, but too many people sing it.” Its most famous version features not Cohen’s gravelly voice but Jeff Buckley ...

It’s the singer, not the song; or is it the other way around? My answer: depends on the song. The 2021 documentary Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song explores the Canadian singer-songwriter ...

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 says that he is happy his song was used on The X Factor but also thinks it is oversung. Leonard Cohen has said that too many people choose to sing his 1984 song 'Hallelujah'. The ...

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. He’d toiled on the ...

There is no song with a story quite like that of “Hallelujah.” Leonard Cohen’s beautiful, enigmatic 1984 composition that, over the course of a couple decades, rose from obscurity to global anthem, ...

Get ready to hear the Leonard Cohen classic “Hallelujah” sung a lot of times by a lot of people in the deep-dive documentary “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song.” “Rolling Stone” writer ...

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. He’d toiled on the ...