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".
The Future (Leonard Cohen album) The Future (Leonard Cohen album) The Future is the ninth studio album by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, released in 1992. After touring successfully in support of his "comeback" album "I'm Your Man" (1988), Cohen took a year off to help his son Adam convalesce after a serious car accident in the West Indies left the young man in a coma for four months. Cohen also began a romantic relationship with the actress Rebecca De Mornay. Anthony Reynolds notes in his book "Leonard Cohen: A Remarkable Life" that work on Cohen's ninth studio album "was not forged in one concentrated effort.