Buckley's promising career was cut short when he died in 1997, at age 30. His music lives on through posthumous releases, including Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk. Jeff Buckley remains one of ...

Then it was the 2001 animated film Shrek that really brought a new wave of popularity to “Hallelujah,” with two different recordings. Neither of them was Buckley’s, although it was his that music fans ...

Alan Light’s The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley and the Unlikely Ascent of “Hallelujah” explores how a random album track on Jeff Buckley’s commercial flop Grace— written by an old ...

“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 Various Positions album was released in 1984 and with it came the song "Hallelujah." The song, though, initially went unnoticed until years later, when it was popularized by ...

In 1984 — the same year that Bruce Springsteen, Prince and Madonna ruled the pop charts with “Born in the U.S.A.,” “Purple Rain” and “Like a Virgin,” respectively — there was another classic that ...

When it comes to Leonard Cohen’s 1984 song “Hallelujah,” most people fall into two camps: You’ve heard it via Jeff Buckley or via Shrek. If you’re part of that very small minority that my husband, a ...

It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley is a new HBO documentary exploring the singer-songwriter's life, music, and tragic death. Buckley's promising career was cut short when he died in 1997, at age 30. His ...

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 ...