The Holy or the Broken

Autorentext

Emmy Award–winning music journalist Alan Light is the author of numerous books including The Holy or the Broken: Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, and the Unlikely Ascent of “Hallelujah” (which was adapted into an acclaimed documentary), as well as Let’s Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain and biographies of Johnny Cash, Nina Simone, and the Beastie Boys. He was the cowriter of bestselling memoirs by Gregg Allman and Peter Frampton. Alan was a senior writer at Rolling Stone and the editor-in-chief of Vibe and Spin. He contributes frequently to The New York Times, Esquire, and The Wall Street Journal, among many publications, and cohosts the podcast Sound Up! With Mark Goodman and Alan Light. 

Klappentext

Reissuing with all new material to coincide with a Leonard Cohen documentary coming fall 2020 featuring the author, Alan Light--a fascinating, terrifically-reviewed account of the making, remaking and unlikely popularizing of one of the most played and recorded rock songs in history - Leonard Cohen's beautiful and heartrending "Hallelujah."