Gloomy Sunday?

Is "suicide song" a legend or a fact?

[Triple_H]

Recently I heard about many stories about "Gloomy Sunday."
The stories talk about people kill themselves after hearing
the song. I'm just wondering whether there is such thing.
I did a net search and I found out that all copies of
"Gloomy Sunday" were destroyed because so many people
committed suicide.

Anyone knows if this is for real?

[kevinpate]

For most "can it be?" Q's, having a look at snopes is helpful.

For your specific Q, see:
snopes.com/music/songs/gloomy.htm

[digitalghost]

>>I did a net search and I found out that all copies of
"Gloomy Sunday" were destroyed because so many people
committed suicide.

You can find Billie Holiday's rendition on any P2P MP3 software. It's definitely a sad tune but listening to it on a gloomy Saturday didn't inspire me to do anything rash.

[Fiver]

björk does a nice version too... but a little too sad to listen to.

[SlyGuy]

Apparently, many Yoko Ono songs can cause people to cover their ears and run away.

Far, far away.

[Mike12345]

Sounds like an audio version of the vid from "the ring" even though strictly speaking that wasnt sucicide, and was a really bad re-make of a great film, which makes it murder IMHO. :)

[troels nybo nielsen]

Music is magic. And lots of music is in some way associated with death. It is quite logical that some pieces of music in some instances may give exactly the sufficient push to trigger suicide or several other kinds of death.

Among classical composers one might mention quite a few in whose work death plays a major role. John Dowland, Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Schubert, Gustav Mahler etc.

And the russian composer whose name in English is unrussified to something like this: Tchaikovsky. I once read that his last symphony is associated with a number of deaths, beginnng with his own. Orchestral musicians have died during concerts etc. etc.