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Leonard Cohen wrote more than 80 verses for Hallelujah before deciding which made the final cut for the song.
Leonard Cohen wrote as many as 80 verses to his famously covered song "Hallelujah", and that during the composition was reduced to banging his head on his hotel floor out of emotional frustration.
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Leonard Cohen didn't release his first album until he was 33 and didn't release his most famous song Hallelujah until he was 50
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Over 300 versions of the Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah" have been recorded. The song achieved little success when released in 1984 but became popular when John Cale's version was featured on the Shrek soundtrack.
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Jeff Buckley - known for his cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" - drowned during a spontaneous evening swim, fully clothed and singing the chorus of the song "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin, in the Mississippi River.
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It took Leonard Cohen 5 years to write his song "Hallelujah," the song that Rufus Wainright/John Cale did a cover of for Shrek
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Leonard Cohen, who wrote "Hallelujah" also had a song in Natural Born Killers. It mentions crack and anal sex.
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It took Leonard Cohen two years to write the famous song “Hallelujah” and originally wrote 80 verses for it. The full released song features only 15 verses.
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While learning to play Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah on the guitar, I also learned that the harmonic progression of the verse: "It goes like this: the fourth, the fifth / the minor fall, the major lift." Is actually an explanation of the song's chord structure.
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The artist behind the new theme song for True Detective is also the writer of the original version of "Hallelujah", popularised by Jeff Buckley
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The lyrics in the first verse of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is him describing the cord progression of the song itself.
