Leonard Cohen said in October that he would have a new album in 2012. Now the record company has announced a date. There is a preview track up online.

http://wehavenofriends.ca/2011/11/listen-to-leonard-cohens-new-album-old-ideas.html

Thought I post it here since I know there are lot of Cohen fans around WC.

Mendalla

I am a longtime fan of Canadian singer-songwriter-poet-author Leonard Cohen. That much is probably apparent from the number of times I've joined in discussions about him or mentioned him in other threads. But the latest discussion over in Social got me thinking about where and when I first found Leonard Cohen given that, while I like his eighties material and first encountered him in that decade, I ultimately prefer his sixties and seventies material.

This is for discussion of the Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah" as sung in the 2010 Olympics as a thread-spawn from the Olympic Fever thread in Social.

I will note that there are more than one version of the song (with different lyrics).  So it may behoove one of you to state which lyrics were used.  And then on with the discussion! :3