Phil Lynott (song) moment for Irish pop" in 2008, with the same publication later calling it the best Irish song of that year. Jape fans launched an online petition to establish the song as the Christmas number one in the Irish Singles Chart. However, it lost out to a cover of the Leonard Cohen song "Hallelujah", performed by Alexandra Burke, that year's winner of British television talent show "The X Factor". The song is often covered by Irish indie musician Rob Smith. Phil Lynott (song) "Phil Lynott" is a 2008 single by the Irish band Jape, taken from their third studio album, "Ritual".
Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen song) episode "Death Penalty, Final Appeal". Jeff Buckley, inspired by Cale's earlier cover, recorded one of the most acclaimed versions of "Hallelujah" for his only complete album, "Grace", in 1994. It was posthumously released as a single in 2007, ten years after Buckley's death. In 2004, Buckley's version was ranked number 259 on "Rolling Stone"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The same year "Time" called Buckley's version "exquisitely sung," observing "Cohen murmured the original like a dirge, but ... Buckley treated the ... song like a tiny capsule of humanity, using his voice to careen between glory and sadness,