Jeff Buckley has handed his first number one in the US Top 100 Charts after 32 years, thanks to a recent boost on TikTok.
The song in question is, ‘Lover, You Should’ve Come Over', which featured on the singer's 1994 album, 'Grace'. This is the only full studio album from the late singer/songwriter before his tragic death from accidental drowning in 1997 when he was 30 years old.
‘Lover, You Should’ve Come Over', was not released as a single from the record.
However, the song has now returned to the charts in a big way after it got a new lease of life online, 32 years after it was shared. It also sits at number on the Billboard Hot 100 this week.
It is hard to know when this newly found fame began, but it did seem to begin following the appearance on the documentary, 'Its Never Over, Jeff Buckley' last year, which following the late singer's life, career and huge legacy that he left behind.
On that album, it was another song which put Jeff Buckley on the map, a beautiful cover of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah', which reached number one in the Top Billboard Hot Digital Songs in 2008.
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Jeff Buckley's 'Grace' is one of several albums to return to the charts, along side Oasis' 'What's The Story (Morning Glory?)' thanks to a rise in the sale of physical music formats last year.
More on this from Nova here.
Back in 2022, it was announced that a previously unpublished novel which was written by Leonard Cohen was to be released, despite being previously rejected by two publishers.
This novel, was called A Ballet of Lepers was a poetry collection written by Cohen in Montreal in 1956. A press release states that the book, “toxic relationships and the lengths one will go to maintain them”.
It was written by Ira B Nadel, who added that the collection “tells the story of a 35-year-old sales clerk who takes in his elderly grandfather” to live together in a cramped boarding house. The grandfather is given to fits of violence, and the narrator (who remains unnamed) finds an awakening violence within himself".
It has also been described as exploring themes “from shame and unworthiness to sexual desire in all its sacred and profane dimensions to longing, whether for love, family, freedom, or transcendence”.
It will also “probe the inner demons of his characters, many of whom could function as stand-ins for the author himself".
Nadel also said that the book shows “a growing sense of Jewish history and tragedy”. It also explores “difficulties that Cohen faced with his own senile grandfather, although without the degree of violence”. More on this from Nova here.
