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In the US, it peaked at No. 15 on the Adult Top 40 chart. A slightly different version of the title track "Lost Highway" was used in the movie Wild Hogs alongside another Bon Jovi song "Wanted Dead or Alive". The song "Hallelujah" was the B-side track to the single and charted in its own right in the UK at number 177 from sales of music downloads.
In Handel’s great chorus, the word is joyous, victorious, accompanied by trumpets and drums. In Sergei Rachmaninoff’s "All Night Vigil," however, hallelujah reflects a more quiet devotion ...
Bon Jovi was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2009. [1] [2] In 2012, he ranked number 50 on the list of Billboard magazine's "Power 100", a ranking of "The Most Powerful and Influential People in the Music Business". [3] Bon Jovi is a founder and former majority owner of an Arena Football League team, the Philadelphia Soul.
Bon Jovi has covered the song several times in concert, including on their 2008 Live at Madison Square Garden DVD. [182] In 2006, the Norwegian quartet of Espen Lind, Kurt Nilsen, Alejandro Fuentes and Askil Holm released a cover of the song. After debuting at number 8 on the Norwegian VG-lista, the single reached number one in January 2007. [183]
Handel's first biographer, John Mainwaring, wrote in 1760 that this conclusion revealed the composer "rising still higher" than in "that vast effort of genius, the Hallelujah chorus". [129] Young writes that the "Amen" should, in the manner of Palestrina , "be delivered as though through the aisles and ambulatories of some great church".
"Hallelujah!" is a 1992 song from Handel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration, a Grammy award winning Reprise Records concept album. The song is a soulful re-interpretation of the "Hallelujah" chorus from Messiah , George Frideric Handel 's well-known oratorio from 1741.
The 2024 MusiCares Person of the Year is Jon Bon Jovi. Many Nashville artists including Marcus King, Lainey Wilson, Jelly Roll and The War and Treaty played Bon Jovi songs to celebrate his career.
Messiah is not a typical Handel oratorio; there are no named characters, as are usually found in Handel's setting of the Old Testament stories, possibly to avoid charges of blasphemy. It is a meditation rather than a drama of personalities, lyrical in method; the narration of the story is carried on by implication, and there is no dialogue.