entertainment.timesonline.co.uk - 12/21/2008
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Hallelujah poll: Vote for your favourite version The versions: Kermit the frog | Mark Viduka tribute | Chris Moyles' lamb bhuna | My Halloumia | Jeff Buckley | Bob Dylan | k.d. lang | Sheryl Crowe | Rufus Wainwright | U2 | Bon Jovi | John Cale | Imogen Heap | JLS | Alexandra Burke By the ...
guardian.co.uk - 12/17/2008
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guardian.co.uk —
The man himself may insist, in his customary
rasp, that he feels quite at home tending to
his craft in a room 100 floors beneath Hank Williams in the Tower of Song. The music-buying public, however, appears to have decided that Leonard Cohen - poet, ...
Hallelujah set to be a Christmas No 1 and 2 ...
telegraph.co.uk - 12/19/2008
facebook.com - 12/17/2008
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IN THE LINKS BELOW---!! Following the rather depressing news that this year's X factor finalist will be covering Leonard Cohen's beautiful ...
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Sweeping The Nation —
... And then there's the parodies. The Now Show's was awkward, Moyles' 'Lamb Bhuna' inevitable but no less terrible for that, but all sorts of cake is taken by Rowland White in the Sunday Times, who poses a crucial critical theory issue - what if, instead of this spiritual paen to blessed holy grace, Cohen had, shortly after being overtaken by the spirit of William McGonagall, written it about the credit crunch?
Idol Headlines for 12/22/08
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... a decidedly muted affair. Friday night’s internet-organised “flash mob” in central London attracted only about a dozen people.
To be fair, one had travelled all the way from Bristol to be there; it was a cold night just before Christmas; and, anyway, just how often has the square seen a protest in favour of a mere pop song?
In the eyes of the group this was, of course, no mere pop song – it was a classic and this was the “definitive version, sung by a god”
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