There was a little of the Cale version (from 1991’s I’m Your Fan) here, but whereas the Velvet Underground man had led with the piano, Buckley elevated the song with a showcase of solo electric guitar, starting out rich, sad and slow, then blossoming into a shimmering instrumental passage that stopped all the clocks. “Whoever listens closely to Hallelujah will discover that it is a song about sex, about love, about life on earth,” Buckley once said. And in late 1993, when Grace was recorded, he hammered home that sensual treatment (the track even begins with an audible sigh). In early days, the singer-songwriter had made New York’s Sin-e club shiver with a reading that he said nodded to “the hallelujah of the orgasm”.
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