The song “Hallelujah” achieved overwhelming global success, and dozens of copies were made in many languages… But this famous work by Leonard Cohen was ignored in the United States when it was released nearly 4 decades ago… An unusual track narrated by a new documentary in American cinemas.
In the minds of many, the song is still associated with the version presented by rock singer Jeff Buckley, who died in 1997 at the age of 30.
But from Bob Dylan to Bon Jovi, to Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli, a host of superstars have put their voices to it.
In 2008, with the rerun of the song “Gospel” by Alexandra Burke on the British talent show “The X Factor”, the song “Hallelujah” took the top three places in the English Song Race, respectively for Burke and Jeff Buckley and then for the original song by Leonard Cohen.
“I don’t see any other song that has had a similar track,” music journalist Alan Light, author of a book regarding the song “Hallelujah” released in 2012, told AFP.
On the sidelines of his participation as a consultant and producer during a presentation in New York of the documentary “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a journey, a song,” Light said, “It took 10 or 20 years with all these different versions for the song to make its debut and grow into a snowball.”
But Columbia Music Productions refused to release the “Ferious Positions” disc, which included the song, in the United States in 1984.
A few years later, Bob Dylan brought the song out of oblivion and presented it with a remake of the blues rock format. Then John Kyle, one of the founders of the band The Velvet Underground, brought it back with a more exciting version in 1991, before it was released with a new, more suggestive version with the voice of Jeff Buckley on the album “Grace” (1994).
The documentary shows how the song “Hallelujah”, discovered by later generations in the 2001 animated film Shrek and then in the 2016 movie “Sing”, became a staple of popular culture.
And in 2010, Canadian K. Dr.. Lange presented her strong voice during the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. After 11 years, the song also attended a ceremony honoring the victims of “Covid-19” in Washington, in the presence of US President Joe Biden.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) — Britney Spears dazzled at her wedding to personal trainer and model Sam Asgari, in an elegant Versace dress. The wedding ceremony was held outside Los Angeles on Thursday.
The pop princess wore a beautiful satin veil and a white collar, during her wedding ceremony at her home in Thousand Oaks, California.
After months of speculation regarding who would design Spears’ wedding dress, the singer mistakenly posted on Instagram a year ago that “Versace designs my dress as we speak,” then deleted the post.
The brand’s creative director, Donatella Versace, confirmed this Friday, revealing on social media that her brand has also designed Asgari’s tuxedo.
The Italian designer attached the photo, which she posted to the newlyweds on Instagram, with the words that Spears occupies a “very special place in my heart.”
“It was natural for me to design Britney Wissam’s wedding outfit,” she wrote in the accompanying photo, noting that the team “put a tremendous amount of love into every detail. Together with our professionals, we created a dress and tuxedo that exudes elegance and sophistication. They look perfect. together”.
Versace joined the guest list, which included Lady Gaga, Madonna and Selena Gomez.
With a classic dress and a three-meter veil, the design features an open neckline that extends to the shoulders, dropping slightly revealing. His chest was distinguished by front pleats, while his lower part had a long V-shaped leg opening.
A Versace representative told CNN that Spears also wore tulle gloves embroidered with pearls and white satin shoes. It took more than 700 hours of the fashion house’s tailors to craft the dress.
According to Vogue, Spears wore a neck-size necklace with a 62-carat diamond, a bracelet, and teardrop-shaped earrings. As for her bridal makeup, British makeup artists Charlotte and Sophia Tilbury, who previously told the fashion magazine they were “happy and proud” to work with Spears on her bridal look.
According to Vogue, this evening Spears wore three outfits. She later appeared in a short red dress, then a short black dress, and a two-tone outfit, all designed by Versace.
Asghari, who met Spears on the set of the 2016 “Sleepper Party” music video, wore a black tuxedo to the party. His delicate Versace jacket features silk satin detailing, layered over a white shirt, black shoes, and a black silk tie.
Spears’ wedding dress is similar to the one she wore when she married Kevin Federline in 2004. On that day, she chose a classic strapless satin wedding dress by Filipino-American wedding dress designer Monique Lhuillier, which later turned into a white lace minidress. It was a dress with a high neck and an open back.
Speaking to CNN last year, Lhuillier said she was given just three weeks to design and produce wedding and reception dresses, as well as bridal gowns. She remembers, “I told them, OK, we’ll get it done. Don’t worry, but I was dying on the inside.”
Spears’ first husband, Jason Alexander, whom she was married to for just 55 hours before they broke up with him in 2004, tried to break into the star’s wedding Thursday. Police said he was arrested and charged with trespassing and battery.
The wedding takes place nearly seven months following Spears won a court battle once morest her long-term guardianship, a legally binding agreement that she said prevents her from marrying or having children. In April, she and Asghari announced that they were expecting a baby, although they later published a joint statement revealing their loss.
Johnny Depp wins, Heard is shocked, the love fades between Shakira and Pique, and Queen Elizabeth celebrates her platinum jubilee and I don’t care… Here are the highlights of the past week.
Last week was the week of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard par excellence, as a state of anticipation prevailed around the world, awaiting the final verdict in their mutual defamation case.
Over the past weeks, the trial enjoyed a wide interaction on the communication sites, and it topped the headlines of international news, and as soon as the verdict was pronounced, the interaction came in favor of Deeb, who had clear sympathy from the beginning compared to his rival Heard.
The interaction with Heard and Deeb’s trial did not subside, until another couple topped the scene, where the Colombian-Lebanese singer Shakira and her partner, Spanish football star Gerard Pique, announced their separation.
Last week, the pioneers of networking sites around the world were busy with Queen Elizabeth II’s platinum jubilee celebrations, and photos of her appearance with the royal family, on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of her accession to the throne of the United Kingdom, were topped by international media.
And the last station of the most prominent for this week, from Saudi Arabia and Egypt, where the Egyptian singer Angham performed a concert, in the Jeddah season, for the first time following she underwent a precise shoulder surgery recently, while the Egyptian star Yasmine Abdel Aziz worried her fans regarding her health once more with a picture she published through the story feature in her Instagram account.
“Only a woman defeats a woman.” Johnny Depp’s lawyer in the Amber Heard case provokes an interaction
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – Activists continue to interact on social media over the verdict in the case of American actor Johnny Reeb and his ex-wife Amber Heard.
Dear #JohnnyDepp, can I have your lawyers’ numbers, please? And Iden (God will cover them) protect them ????
The comments varied between sarcastic comments asking him for his lawyer’s number because “many people need her,” while others cited sayings such as “no woman can be defeated but a woman,” and others argued that if Deeb spoke Arabic, it would have been “the tongue of a state: O nation laughed at its ignorance of nations.” “.
Johnny Depp has played a psychopathic pirate, an eccentric chocolatier, and a young man with scissors instead of arms in his films, but Johnny himself did not imagine that he would become Youssef Al-Siddiq in his fight once morest Zulekha Heard for Arab men in 2022…Johnny Lou’s mouth Pronunciation in Arabic: O nation laughed out of ignorance of nations
According to CNN legal analyst Joey Jackson, the ruling in the case is a “massive” legal victory for Depp and a rejection of Heard.
They said in the old days: If you want to defeat a woman, use a woman. “Johnny Depp” believed in this theory, “Camel Vasquez” proved correct! . #JohnnyDepp #AmberHeard https://t.co/1fpPQacBtA
“What[Johnny Depp]had to overcome was a matter of the First Amendment, which is that we all have a right to express our thoughts and opinions,” Jackson explained. “What they[the jury]said is that, yes, you have a right to the amendment.” The first is unless you say something untrue that discredits and harms someone in their professional sector.”
Amber Heard’s spokesman, David Sheen, said the latter plans to appeal the ruling.
In the last trial, we saw Johnny Depp’s novel, and we discovered that it was blurred by a certain “activist ideologist,” who exploits the right idea of believing survivors to program us that in one story we must hear it in order to be “advocates of abused women.” no. If mutual violence, Halshi must be conveyed clearly, sympathetically, in particular, to the victims of violence and their stories.
It is reported that the jury awarded Depp $10 million in damages and $5 million in punitive damages. The agency awarded Amber Heard $2 million in damages and non-punitive damages.