![]() ![]() He’s spoken in interviews, Light writes, about being drunk in his underwear on a hotel room floor with papers scattered around him. ![]() It took Cohen years to write and finally record the song – he put 80 verses together before finally getting it together in the studio in 1984, and when he finally did, his record company said the album he put it on was awful and refused to release it.Ĭohen is one of the tortured writer set. Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” is one of those beautiful songs I want no part of after reading Alan Light’s book about it, The Holy or the Broken.Ĭohen’s been so tortured by the song throughout his career that he had his agent send the author an email giving his blessing to the project, but the artist himself wasn’t going to be part of it. How many times have you heard a song and said, “I wish I’d written that”? With me it doesn’t happen very often sure, the royalties on “Call Me Maybe” must be off the charts, but I rarely hear a song I think is clever and moving enough to wonder what was in the writer to create it.
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