This Day In History: In 1986 a lawsuit was filed against Judas Priest after two fans shot themselves after listening to the band's music. The suit was dismissed in 1990. The song at the center of this "subliminal message trial" was the song "Better by You, Better than Me" written by Gary Wright (the same person that wrote Dream Weaver). The oldest song that I know of that was said to have encouraged suicides was Gloomy Sunday, otherwise known as the Hungarian Suicide Song. Written in 1932, this song is said to be linked to 18 deaths. The composer, Rezso Seress, eventually committed suicide himself.
One of the more recent deaths attributed to music was in 2012 in Florida where a 47 year old man shot a boy for playing rap music. While extreme...I completely understand.
Here is an excerpt of Gloomy Sunday:
Sunday is gloomy, My hours are slumberless. Dearest, the shadows I live with are numberless. Little white flowers Will never awaken you. Not where the black coach Of sorrow has taken you. Angels have no thought Of ever returning you.
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