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Needless to say, the song ["Hallelujah"] was now a climax in every show [of the 2009 Leonard Cohen tour], received like holy scripture. It belonged in a category with seeing Bob Dylan sing "Like a Rolling Stone" or watching Bruce Springsteen perform "Born to Run"--it was an event that people simply wanted to witness, to say they had seen. It took on a power that had to do with the song's history first, its feeling second, and its details ha..
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2012
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Though most cultural observers hadn't noticed it yet, everything was now in place for "Hallelujah" to sweep through the pop landscape. It was a song that had multiple strong, emotional connections with millions of listeners. Its mood was both fixed and malleable, universal and specific. It was familiar enough to resonate, obscure enough to remain cool. Though its most celebrated performer was gone forever, its mysterious creator had come ba..
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2012
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hallelujah
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leonard-cohen
pop-music
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It's a rather joyous song," Cohen said when Various Positions was released. "I like very much the last verse--'And even though it all went wrong, / I'll stand before the Lord of Song / with nothing on my lips but Hallelujah!"
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Trained as a classical pianist, she was often called a jazz singer, but it was a label she deeply resented, seeing in it only a racial classification. She grudgingly accepted the popular nickname "the High Priestess of Soul" but gave it little significance. If anything, she claimed, she was a folk singer, and her dazzling, unpredictable repertoire--Israeli folk tunes, compositions by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, songs by the Bee Gees and ..
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