A song about Sunday was banned for 66 years by the BBC
Gloomy Sunday is the name of a popular song composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezso Seress and published in 1933. Also known as ‘The Hungarian Suicide Song’, this song has been the center of many urban myths linking it to the suicide of several people who had listened to the song. In the early ‘40s, the BBC deemed the song “too upsetting” for the public, then later said that only instrumental versions could be played on the radio. Over the years, the song has been recorded by such artists as Billie Holiday, Elvis Costello, Sarah McLachlan and Portishead.
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