Hallelujah! Currently two covers on the British top 50 chart.Hallelujah! was written (and also sung) by Leonard Cohen. (See below) So much response to my previous blog. Leonard Cohen: Virgo.
According to wiki:
On the 21st of December 2008, "Hallelujah" became the first song in 51 years to
occupy the first and second positions on the UK Singles Chart; ...Alexandra Burke's and American singer Jeff Buckley's covers were the two highest-selling songs in the week beginning 15 December 2008
This song has been covered by more people than you can name, all over the world. It made #1 in Norway. The lyrics change; one speculation is that cover-singers are choosing among the originally 80 verses Cohen wrote.
The man? According to my Canadian source, "Apparently none of his ex-women friends have ANYTHING bad to say about him." Are you thinking "Virgo" here?
Leonard, CC GOQ, still alive, says he doesn't know how many verses there are because everyone who sings it adds their own. Alernatively, he has said he has added verses himself. It's true, one is tempted to add one's own, this touches such a universal (David) chord. (see below)
And yes, he's a Virgo, born September 21, 1934 in Westmount Quebec. Leave it to a Virgo to touch every chord, every David's chord, you ever had ... in a totally understated way. As he says in his lyrics "I couldn't feel so I tried to touch." IMO, no one can comfort the way a Virgo male can.
This song touches us all, at the chord of David level. I think because he goes to the core - sex, religion, and the complexity of relationships .... "Dance me to the end of Love,".
A poet first, Leonard Cohen published his first poetry in 1956. Then an album in 1967, with songs rooted in European folk music. Around 1980, his high baritone became the bass or bass baritone you hear in the video below, accompanied by electronic synthesizers and female backup. With smashing results.
I think it is a song whose time has come.
From wik:
He was never as popular in the US, where his work was considered "too dark."Over a thousand renditions of Cohen's songs have been recorded and his work has been cited as an influence on a wide range of singer-songwriters around the world. He has been inducted into both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian
Songwriters Hall of Fame and is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour. Whilst giving the speech at his induction into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on 10 March 2008, Lou Reed described Cohen as being up amongst the "highest and most influential echelon of songwriters".[1].10 March 2008, Lou Reed described Cohen as being up amongst the "highest and most influential echelon of songwriters".
Mistake!!
Lyrics listed elsewhere not in this video.
Baby I have been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
and
There was a time you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
Yet another appears in the videos of K. D. Lang and Alexandra Burke:
Maybe there's a god above
But all I've ever learned from love
Is how to shoot somebpdy
Who outdrew you
It's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not someone that's seen the light
It's a cold and it's broken Hallelujah
Photo a gift from LOOK magazine (wik).
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