I am extremely strongly in favour of this provided it means I don’t have to listen to anyone other than Leonard Cohen sing “Hallelujah” ever again
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Dan Davies
listening to an Ibiza-style remix of "Ain't No Sunshine" in this coffee shop and once more reflecting that there ought to be some equivalent of listed building protection for songs of sufficient cultural artistic and historical importance.
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Note Bene: he himself preferred John Cage's arrangement, as sung by KD Lang.
Cohen himself never sang his own original arrangement again after Cage produced his version. Before Cage the song had had zero traction anywhere; hardly anyone knew of it.
Personally I think Cage is one of the great unsung heros of modern popular music, but YMMV.
The unhelpful ambiguity in my earlier post is because Cale ends verses 3 and 5 with cold-and-broken. So Cale and Burke both end with that line, just in different verses.
It's almost impossible to tell with manufactured pop stars just what "they" know and what their management know. Not uncommon for a singer to perform or record a song without a clue who wrote, who arranged, and who owned the rights.