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A tribute by Canadian Musician Dale Burton.Just for fun ☮❤With some little known facts
No replacing this truly one of a kind Artist.Absolute Legend.
"Hallelujah" is a song written by Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, originally released on his album Various Positions (1984). Achieving little initial success,[1] the song found greater popular acclaim through a new version recorded by John Cale in 1991. Cale's version inspired a 1994 recording by Jeff Buckley that in 2004 was ranked number 259 on Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
1. After college, he considered becoming a lawyer.

2. His brilliant album, Various Positions, which includes the classic “Hallelujah,” was deemed not good enough for U.S. release by Columbia Records.

3. He named his daughter Lorca for Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca.

4. He spent almost two years living in a cabin in Tennessee that had been the home of Boudleaux Bryant, author of “Bye Bye Love.” For a long time, he lived on the Greek island of Hydra on less than a thousand dollars a year. Later he lived in a little trailer in the south of France.

5. He went to Cuba just before the Bay of Pigs invasion — as a “foot solider,” he says.

6. Phil Spector once showed up at his door at 4 a.m. with a bottle of wine and a .45, which he cocked and shoved into Cohen’s neck.

7. He regrets having revealed that “Chelsea Hotel No. 2” concerned his sexual encounter with Janis Joplin.

8. He considers caviar his sole extravagance.

9. His grandfather “helped found many of the institutions that defined Jewish life in Canada.”

10. The first time he went to his Zen monastery near L.A, he dropped out of line at breakfast, sneaked down to the parking lot, got in his car and drove to Mexico.

11. He invented a cocktail called Red Needle.

12. His favorite song is “Blueberry Hill” by Fats Domino.

13. He considers Jennifer Warnes the most underrated pop singer.

14. He once tried to type underwater in the bathtub, then flung his typewriter across the room and broke it.
The song achieved widespread popularity after Cale's version of it was featured in the 2001 film Shrek.[3][4] Many other arrangements have been performed in recordings and in concert, with more than 300 versions known as of 2008.[5] The song has been used in film and television soundtracks and televised talent contests. "Hallelujah" experienced renewed interest following Cohen's death in November 2016 and reappeared on international singles charts, including entering the American Billboard Hot 100 for the first time.[6]
Single by Leonard Cohen
from the album Various Positions
Released December 1984
Recorded June 1984[1][2]
Genre Folk rock
Length 4:39
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s) Leonard Cohen
Producer(s) John Lissauer