Montreal bard Leonard Cohen has written and recorded many great songs, and influenced many times that number of peers and followers with his spiritual, morose and occasionally carnal poetry and music.Fifteen years may seem like a long time, but Cohen is a patient man. 'Hallelujah' reportedly took two years to write and once allegedly spanned 80 verses before he found a way to whittle them down.
'Hallelujah,' it should be noted, isn't some gem from Cohen's late 60s and 70s heyday. It's a track from his relatively unsung later years (1984 to be exact) and is found on an album initially deemed so uncommercial it didn't even warrant an American release.
He performed Thursday at New York City's Beacon Theatre and is scheduled to perform May 5 at the Chicago Theatre.
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