Achieving little initial success, the song found greater popular acclaim through a recording by John Cale , which inspired a recording by Jeff Buckley. It has been viewed as a "baseline" for secular hymns. Following its increased popularity after being featured in the film Shrek , [2] [3] many other arrangements have been performed in recordings and in concert, with over versions known. Written in the key of C major , the chord progression matches lyrics from the song: "goes like this, the fourth , the fifth , the minor fall , and the major lift": C, F, G, A minor, F.

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Leonard Cohen's song Hallelujah is one of the best examples of a slow-burning hit. It took years of work, multiple revisions and a slew of voices to cement it as one of the most powerful and hauntingly beautiful songs in contemporary music. Buckley's version is perhaps the most well-known, and has been credited with giving the song the final shove into the American consciousness. It was a live performance of Hallelujah that caught the attention of an executive at Columbia records who then signed Buckley, or so the story goes. Though it was on Buckley's only full studio album, Grace , which debuted in , it didn't catch on until his tragic death in Buckley's version would have never come to pass had it not been for John Cale. A founding member of the Velvet Underground, Cale heard Cohen perform the song, and adapted it as his own. He recorded it for a tribute album called I'm Your Fan , which eventually landed in Buckley's hands.
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