Jeff Buckley’s inspired, haunting cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is one of the 25 new audio recordings chosen for preservation by the Library of Congress. The late singer-songwriter’s 1994 ...

“Hallelujah” was written by Leonard Cohen, but Jeff Buckley made it magnificent. It is the sixth track of his only complete studio album, “Grace.” At the beginning of “Hallelujah,” right before he ...

Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” has been performed and recorded by hundreds of artists from U2, Justine Timberlake, and Celine Dion to Renee Fleming and Willie Nelson, and Rolling Stone named it one of ...

“Hallelujah,” the Leonard Cohen classic, is one of those tunes sure to summon an avalanche of tears from everyone in the room if it’s sung with the right gusto. The song wasn’t a hit upon its 1984 ...

In Alan Light's newly expanded book about the strange, growing legacy of 'Hallelujah,' he explores how the sexy song became a country favorite and then unlikely holiday hymn. If Leonard Cohen built a ...

In HateSong, we ask our favorite musicians, writers, comedians, actors, and so forth to expound on the one song they hate most in the world. The hater: Dean Reid plays bass in Cheatahs, representing ...

Tragic troubadour Jeff Buckley, who died at age 30, influenced a whole generation of new artists, including Adele (top right) and Coldplay (with Chris Martin). Buckley's posthumous album "You and I" ...