![]() It opens with the sardonically gorgeous “Dance Me to the End of Love” and fades out on “If It Be Your Will,” which Cohen described as “an old prayer” that he was moved to rewrite. until 1990, features a handful of Cohen’s greatest songs. The album, which Columbia didn’t put out in the U.S. “But we don’t know if you’re any good.” Or as cartoonish execs say in the movies: I don’t hear a single. ![]() “Leonard, we know you’re great,” he said. That’s because it was included on Various Positions, Cohen’s seventh studio album for Columbia, which the head of the music division, Walter Yetnikoff, chose not to release in the U.S. ![]() “Hallelujah” would eventually join the pantheon of contemporary popular music at the time, though, the Canadian singer-songwriter may as well have dropped it off the end of a pier. In June 1984, at New York’s Quadrasonic Sound studios, Leonard Cohen laid down a song he’d spent years writing. ![]()
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