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".
First Love (Emmy the Great song) First Love (Emmy the Great song) "First Love" is a song by Emmy the Great, written by Emma-Lee Moss and released as a single in 2009 and on her debut album "First Love". It samples Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, while the song's story makes reference to the song as the lyrics read, "...from the first time you did rewind that line from "Hallelujah", the original Leonard Cohen version". Referring to the Leonard Cohen sample, she stated, "That just happened because I had rhymed the word pet with cassette - so I wondered what they'd [the couple in the song] be