Leonard Cohen, Pt 2

One of Leonard Cohens most famous songs, is one, which in fact, is famous through it being covered by a young, gifted, american singer/songwriter called Jeff Buckley. Who recorded only one album, before tragically dying in a drowning accident in the late nineties at a young age. The album called, Grace, is now widely seen in top albums of all time charts, as is quite frankly a gem of a piece and one I was quite late discovering for myself and now cannot even remember what initially highlighted him. On this album is his cover of the Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah. This song has eclipsed the original recorded version and has appeared many times in many different tv programs/films. It seems a great combination of a great songwriter who can just express delicate beauty and a young man, who was blessed with a delicately beautiful voice, which soars above this song and brings such wonderful emotion to it, he really does bring this song to life. It is rightly seen as an all time classic and arguably, one of the best cover versions of all time, in my opinion. It always makes me think of what this lad could have achieved in the ten years of so since his death.