"It Doesn't Matter Which You Heard": the Curious Cultural Journey of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"

Nathan — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:22:02 -0500

For the Cohenites (both Leonard and Seth) out there, I give you Michael Barthel’s smart and entertaining research paper on the weird history of one Leonard Cohen song with many incarnations. His motivation for undertaking this research of what exactly happened to that song began after hearing the Fallout Boy song, "Hum Hallelujah."