Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah! update. From BBC article, "Just whose Hallelujah is it anyway?"
Fans of Leonard Cohen (and of the late Jeff Buckley, whose 1994 version is treated as sacrosanct) are predictably outraged at [the new version] ... But maybe they need not worry so much.
For one thing, viewings of the other Hallelujahs on the global jukebox YouTube are rising every day, with comments underneath such as "Glad the song won X Factor - even with a rubbish version - otherwise I wouldn't have discovered this".
And for another, Cohen was last in the news when a court ruled that his manager had stolen £5.4m which he was unlikely to recover. So there may be another kind of joyous cry this Christmas - the kind that means "a beautiful woman has sung my song and restored my financial solvency". Hallelujah.
I'm so glad this has happened for Leonard Cohen.
Cohen's advice to young song writers, BTW, "if you stick with a song long enough, it will yield." He says he spent at least 5 years on Hallelujah. There were 80 verses. Hear interview HERE.
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