When Leonard Cohen died on November 7, 2016, he’d recently declared that Bob Dylan’s receipt of the Nobel Prize for literature was like “pinning a medal on Mount Everest” – but it could just as easily ...

Portland Baroque Orchestra performs "Messiah" Dec. 12-15. AP Photo There are as many versions of Messiah as there are people to hear them. The "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's "Messiah" is one of ...

Something peculiar is happening in popular music this week, and it is all thanks to the power of one quite extraordinary song. Hallelujah is a deceptively simple track, with lyrics which are a ...

Of all the incarnations of Leonard Cohen's song "Hallelujah" – and there have been many – the X Factor winner's version will raise the most eyebrows. One of the greatest songs of all time, it has a ...

It's been covered by Jeff Buckley, Rufus Wainwright, k.d. lang and countless others (mostly 'X Factor' contestants). And now, there's another rendition of Leonard Cohen's beautiful song 'Hallelujah' ...

THREE versions of Hallelujah are vying for the Christmas No1 spot. X Factor winner Alexandra Burke's single will have to fend off Jeff Buckley's version and Leonard Cohen's original. Now all three are ...

TORONTO — A casual conversation about music on Thursday’s episode of Global’s The Morning Show sparked a debate about who recorded the best version of “Hallelujah.” Montreal-born Leonard Cohen wrote ...