80 Verses, One Rejection, and a Slow Miracle

Leonard Cohen | Hallelujah The Floor of the Royalton Leonard Cohen spent five years writing Hallelujah, banging his head on a hotel floor in despair, and then his label rejected it. How it got from there to everywhere is one of popular music’s strangest accidents. Here’s the image. It’s sometime in the early 1980s, and […]

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