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".
Leonard Cohen book contains 50 prose-poems, influenced by the Hebrew Bible and Zen writings. Cohen himself referred to the pieces as "prayers". In 1993 Cohen published "Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs", and in 2006, after 10 years of delays, additions, and rewritings, "Book of Longing". "The Book of Longing" is dedicated to the poet Irving Layton. Also, during the late 1990s and 2000s, many of Cohen's new poems and lyrics were first published on the fan website The Leonard Cohen Files, including the original version of the poem "A Thousand Kisses Deep" (which Cohen later adapted for a song). Cohen's writing