Leonard Cohen struggled to unlock the potential of "Hallelujah"—it was John Cale who held the key Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” was a complex, nearly indecipherable musical riddle that flummoxed even ...

John Cale smashes a miniature piano with an axe and lets insects crawl over his face in his creepy “Hallelujah” video. The forlorn track, a cover of Leonard Cohen‘s 1984 classic, appears on an ...

Here are two widely known facts about John Cale: He was a founding member of the Velvet Underground, and infused the group with its astringent avant-garde sensibility; and he once decapitated a ...

It may be easier to name artists who haven’t covered Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” than to list those who have. But finding those who’ve done it with sensitivity, insight or invention is another thing ...

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 ...

Like the blind men of lore groping to understand an elephant by focusing on a tail or a tusk or an ear, filmmakers have tended to approach the late singer, songwriter, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen ...

Leonard Cohen has written many excellent songs: “Suzanne,” “Bird on the Wire” and “Dance Me to the End of Love” to name a few. But “Hallelujah” has achieved escape velocity. As Alan Light chronicles ...