'Gloomy Sunday,' the So-Called 'Suicide Song'

Bélinda Ibrahim, 12/09 19:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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It is rare for a song to inspire as much fascination, dread and myth as “Gloomy Sunday.” Written in the depths of the Great Depression by Hungarian musician Rezső Seress, this melancholy waltz has carried with it for nearly a century a trail of persistent rumors: branded the “suicide song,” it was allegedly banned from airwaves and ...