But it is also true that allowing for moment-to-moment tempo changes adds a new expressive parameter to the music. Jeff Buckley’s time feel is highly elastic even over a typical rock beat; you can see ...

Hallelujah is one of Buckley’s most iconic and enduring tracks and has become a classic song in its own right. For many, it is the definitive version of Cohen’s bitter lament about love and loss.

Before Jeff Buckley’s career was tragically cut short in 1997, the singer-songwriter cut deep with his satin vocals and heart-piercing lyrics. From his poignant rendition of Leonard Cohen’s ...

Countless artists from Jeff Buckley, who immortalised it, to Willie Nelson, Brandi Carlile and even opera singer Andrea Bocelli, have recorded a version of the song, shape-shifting its lyrics and ...

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 ...

Jeff Buckley’s full-throated rendition injected “Hallelujah” into the ’90s pop mainstream. “Shrek,” the DreamWorks animated blockbuster about a lovelorn green ogre, repurposed Cale’s ...

Years after its initial release, “Hallelujah” was covered prominently by Cale, Buckley, Wainwright, and more (see below). And after Cohen’s death in November 2016, the song experienced ...

Alter Bridge played the Olympia in Paris Monday night (Dec. 9), and they gave the crowd a special treat. Frontman Myles Kennedy performed the tear-jerker "Hallelujah" on Jeff Buckley's guitar ...

BUCKLEY: (Singing) Hallelujah. LIGHT: September 11 comes and Jeff Buckley's recording of "Hallelujah" really became sort of an anthem in the aftermath, emotional shorthand for melancholy and for ...

Fans of Leonard Cohen (and of the late Jeff Buckley, whose 1994 version is treated as sacrosanct) are predictably outraged at the big-arms, eyebrow-raised bombast, with the now traditional online ...