Leonard Cohen

Ahhh, gone at 82.

Here's a little bit about his writing of Hallelujah, maybe his most famous song –

Even before three hundred other performers made Hallelujah famous with their cover versions … Dylan recognized the beauty of its marriage of the sacred and the profane. He asked Cohen how long it took him to write.

“Two years,” Cohen lied.

Actually, Hallelujah had taken him five years. He drafted dozens of verses and then it was years more before he settled on a final version. In several writing sessions, he found himself in his underwear, banging his head against a hotel-room floor.

 Here he is – although I think others have done his song better …