In London, another woman overdosed on barbiturates while listening to the song on repeat. In Vienna, a woman drowned herself clutching the sheet music. Hungary supposedly banned the song from being played, but the suicides didn't stop. Other stories say that lyricist and poet László Jávor was the heartbroken one, and asked Seress to compose the score for a poem he wrote about his ex. Not every version of the official story is in agreement: Some say Seress's fiancée left him for being a deadbeat musician, and he wrote the song for her. Inspired by this amazing urban legend, Stuff They Don't Want You to Know's very own Ben Bowlin wrote a radio play, originally for the Atlanta Fringe Audio Festival, called " See You Next Time." This eerie and unsettling tale explores what the world might look like if "Gloomy Sunday" really did inspire something dark inside every person.įor a little background, Rezső Seress was a Hungarian composer who was living in Paris in 1933 trying to make it as a songwriter. Written in 1933 and covered more than 70 times, Rezső Seress and László Jávor's " Gloomy Sunday" has allegedly been linked to more than 100 suicides since it hit the gramophones in 1935. But there's one song in a class of its own. Plenty of people have accused songs of spurring loved ones to commit suicide: Bands like Judas Priest and Marilyn Manson can attest to that. The Hungarian song 'Gloomy Sunday' is supposedly linked to more than 100 suicides.
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