Leonard Norman Cohen CC GOQ pursued a career as a poet and novelist during the 1950s and early 1960s and did not begin a music career until 1967. His first album, Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967), was followed by three more albums of folk music: Songs from a Room (1969), Songs of Love and Hate (1971), and New Skin for the Old Ceremony (1974). His 1977 record Death of a Ladies’ Man, co-written and produced by Phil Spector, was a move away from Cohen’s previous minimalist sound.
What is the meaning behind Leonard Cohen’s song Hallelujah?
Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah song had people wondering if it were a religious piece or not. In fact, the song has a whole different meaning to it.
The Hallelujah song tells a story of a broken love, true love remembered and mourned, guilt, penance, and of finding peace. The song’s content is strange for its history and its constant refrain, “hallelujah,” takes the listener through a journey of pain, joy, suffering, and celebration
According to the singer and poet, there is nothing spiritual about it, and is purely hedonistic. He decided on the Hallelujah word to gain instant fame, thereby throwing a few biblical characters to create sensation and attention. It is not spiritual in view of Judaism or Christianity and honestly rather blasphemous.
