Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah
December 18th, 2008 by sparky
Photograph by Mark Bennett
It’s a song that took over a year to write, for which Leonard Cohen is said to have penned over 80 verses (many of which were discarded), and has since been recorded over 170 times by artists such as Bob Dylan, John Cale, Rufus Wainwright and Allison Crowe.
With X Factor’s Alexandra Burke and the late Jeff Buckley currently competing to see who will take this legendary song to the highly coveted position of UK Christmas number 1, we thought you might like to relive an amazing Big Chill moment from 2008′s festival, when we were treated to an epic performance of this powerful ballad, by the legendary man himself…
