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Who the hallelujah is Alexandra Burke?
How can it be that some girl who no-one has ever heard can perform an entirely ordinary cover of one of the great songs from a certain old Buddhist master and it gets to be the UK No 1 Christmas song? And then a campaign for another cover of the same song gets that one to be No 2? Why is it that Leonard Cohen languishes behind them in spot number 36; although I suppose it is the first time the original of his 1984 Hallelujah has ever charted in the UK top 40? And why is it that he is playing in New Zealand while we are at the opposite end of the earth?