The hit track transformed a little-known song into one of the most covered tracks in music history, inspiring hundreds of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Then it was the 2001 animated film Shrek that really brought a new wave of popularity to “Hallelujah,” with two different ...

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 ...

In Alan Light's newly expanded book about the strange, growing legacy of 'Hallelujah,' he explores how the sexy song became a country favorite and then unlikely holiday hymn. If Leonard Cohen built a ...

The late Leonard Cohen's best known song, "Hallelujah," took more than a decade to find its audience. Alan Light, author of the "The Holy or the Broken," talks about the unlikely ascent of the song.

In 1994, alternative icon Jeff Buckley recorded a soul-stirring take of “Hallelujah” that would go on to define the song for generations. Decades later, his haunting version has inspired hundreds of ...