Singing The Praises Of ‘Hallelujah’ With A Film About Leonard Cohen’s Classic Song DeadlineContenders
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a SongPairing archival footage of Cohen himself with interviewees including Brandi Carlisle, Eric Church and Judy Collins, “So it’s both an exposition of the unbelievably bizarre and dramatic arc that that song took out into the world,” she said, “and also a look at Leonard Cohen the man, the spiritual seeker and the artist.”
A poet and novelist before he took up songwriting in the 1960s, with folk singer Collins as one of his early champions, Montreal native Cohen worked on “Hallelujah” for years before recording it. As a writer interviewed in the film found out, Cohen also penned dozens of new verses for it afterward as he reconsidered — or rued — some of the original recorded lyrics.
“So of all the songs, it feels like the one where, in a way, he distilled so much of his essence into the song,” Geller said. “And that’s probably why it took about seven years for him to write the first version that’s recorded. And then … he went back and started writing these other verses as he, as he said, began to choke on some of the meaning of what he had written before.”
In the meantime, Dylan was championing “Hallelujah” by playing it on tour before it had an official U.S. release. Cohen’s accompanying nine-song album, , found an outlet at a small record label in 1984, and is today considered among the singer-songwriter’s best, with a handful of signature Cohen songs. Various PositionsColumbia Records eventually endorsed it, too, re-releasing the album on CD in 1990. The compact-disc era is when “Hallelujah” went viral.
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