The Holy or the Broken
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The Holy or the Broken by Alan Light
Today, Hallelujah is one of the most-performed rock songs in history. It has become a staple of movies and television shows as diverse as Shrek and The West Wing, of tribute videos and telethons. It has been covered by hundreds of artists, including Bob Dylan, U2, Justin Timberlake, and k.d. lang, and it is played every year at countless events-both sacred and secular-around the world. Yet when music legend Leonard Cohen first wrote and recorded Hallelujah, it was for an album rejected by his longtime record label. Ten years later, charismatic newcomer Jeff Buckley reimagined the song for his much-anticipated debut album, Grace. Three years after that, Buckley would be dead, his album largely unknown, and Hallelujah still unreleased as a single. After two such commercially disappointing outings, how did one obscure song become an international anthem for human triumph and tragedy, a song each successive generation seems to feel they have discovered and claimed as uniquely their own?
Light, Alan: - Alan Light has been one of America's leading music journalists for the past twenty years. He was a writer at Rolling Stone, founding music editor and editor-in-chief of Vibe, and editor-in-chief of Spin magazine. He has been a contributor to The New Yorker, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, and Mother Jones. He is the author of The Skills to Pay the Bills, an oral history of the Beastie Boys; The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of Hallelujah; and cowriter of the New York Times bestselling memoir by Gregg Allman, My Cross to Bear.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781451657845 |
| ISBN 10 | 1451657846 |
| Titel | The Holy or the Broken |
| Autor | Alan Light |
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| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Simon & Schuster |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2012-12-04 |
| Seitenanzahl | 254 |
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