Leonard Cohen’s “Various Positions” album, featuring “Hallelujah,” was rejected by Columbia Records in 1984. Legacy. Today, it’s a song that adds grace, grandeur and gravitas to any ...

McLachlan takes on Cohen’s most beloved, oft-covered track, the haunting meditation “Hallelujah,” which, like Taylor’s cover, comes from 1984’s beloved Various Positions album.

In June 1984, at New York’s Quadrasonic Sound studios, Leonard Cohen laid down a song he’d spent years writing. “Hallelujah” would eventually join the pantheon of contemporary popular ...

Filmmaker Dayna Goldfine sings the praises of ‘Hallelujah’ with pic about Leonard Cohen’s classic song in an interview for Deadline's Contenders Documentary.

In the new documentary "Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song," filmmakers Dayna Goldfine and Dan Gellar examine how despite the odds, the song managed to take on a life of its own after ...

How Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ Became a Christmas Hit Decades After Its Release. ... which originally appeared on Cohen’s 1984 album, Various Positions.

“Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song” is smart enough to embrace that mystery and that beauty, and to know that there’s far more to Cohen than can be summed up in four, or seven, or ...

How did “Hallelujah,” Leonard Cohen’s anthem to the sacred and profane, wind up going from a deep cut on an album Cohen’s label considered un-releasable to one of the most ubiquitous songs ...

Leonard’s Cohen’s song “Hallelujah” is an anthem for people who are spiritual, secular, skeptical, romantic, and heartbroken. Now it’s one of the most recognizable songs, but it was a flop upon ...

Cohen published four poetry collections and two novels between 1956 and 1966, before his first album, “Songs of Leonard Cohen,” came out in 1967. While you can’t really answer the question of why ...