Excuse me, is the song {Black Sunday} you said sung by Lulans Charles? ...

More than fifty years ago, there was a famous "international music mystery" in the history of music: people committed suicide in order to listen to a piece of music.

Then, one day, in a bar in Belgium, people were drinking and listening to music. When the band just finished playing Black Sunday composed by French composer Rourance Charles, they heard a hysterical cry: "I can't stand it!" I saw a Hungarian youth with his neck upturned, drank the wine in the cup, pulled out a pistol and pulled the trigger at his temple, and fell in a pool of blood with a bang. A policewoman investigated the case, but with great efforts, she couldn't find out the reason why the young man committed suicide. Finally, she bought a record of Black Sunday played by the band that day, thinking that she might find some clues to solve the case from here. After playing a record once, she also committed suicide. Her last words to the police chief were found on her desk: "Sir, I don't need to continue investigating the case I accepted. The murderer is the music "Black Sunday". When I was listening to this song, I couldn't stand the stimulation of its sad melody and had to decline. " Coincidentally. When chatting with people, a cheerful and lively female typist in new york, USA, heard how "Black Sunday" makes people sad, so she curiously borrowed this music record and listened to it at home. The next day, she did not go to work. She was found to have committed suicide in her room. The record player is playing Black Sunday. She said in her suicide note: "I can't stand its melody. This song is my funeral repertoire. In Washington, a newly famous piano player was invited to a salon party and played for the guests. During dinner, a guest suddenly received a long-distance call from her mother, who died in a car accident. Because it happened to be Sunday, she asked the pianist to play Black Sunday for her mother to express her condolences. The pianist reluctantly played this piece of music, but just after playing it, he threw himself on the piano because of excessive sadness and never got up again.

Black Sunday was called "the invitation of the devil" at that time, and at least 100 people committed suicide because of listening to it, so it was banned for 13 years. Even psychoanalysts and psychologists can't give a satisfactory explanation about the composer's own motivation to create music. Dare to listen? ^^

After the love affair between Hungarian pianist Rezso Seress and his girlfriend broke down, he wrote a sad song called "szo moru vasárnap" at 1933. The English translation of this song is Gloomy Sunday. At first, the author had some trouble trying to publish this song. A publisher once said: "(refusing to publish) is not because it is a sad tone, but because of the soul-stirring despair in the song, which I don't think is good for any audience." This song is not sad, but has a terrible sense of competition despair. I don't think it's good for anyone to hear about Song Like. However, after several twists and turns, Melancholy Sunday was finally released in Budapest and became the best-selling song in two or three years. Unexpectedly, after this song entered this world, it caused many tragic and bizarre accidents (the local newspapers have reported a lot about it), just as the ancient myth described that once Pandora's box was opened, countless demons and disasters were released into this world. However, the last thing in Pandora's box is "hope", which makes this very unclear.

The perfect world can go on; But "Melancholy Sunday" brings people a voice of despair.

This song describes an unfortunate man who can't bring back the people he loves. On a melancholy Sunday, he frequently has desperate thoughts of double suicide, which is hard to get rid of his extreme thoughts about the people he loves.

Melancholy spread to America around Sunday 1936. Its first English version was recorded by jazz artist Paul Robeson in 1940. On August 7th, 194 1, the black female singer Billie Holiday reinterpreted this song in her own unique and exquisite way, making it a household name in the United States.

Over the years, some incredible reports and rumors have made the melancholy Sunday extremely mysterious. According to MacDonald's article in the inaugural issue of Cincinnati Journal of Ritual Magic, Budapest police investigated the suicide of local shoemaker Joseph Keller in February 1936. They found that Keller left a suicide note, which copied the lyrics of the song that had just become popular at that time. It may not be strange to copy a lyric from a suicide note, but people think that this song is directly responsible for the death of more than 100 people (such exaggerated words as "Hungarians killed them under the influence of a song" once appeared in the headlines of The New York Times). Many people who commit suicide will always accompany this song in one way or another before they die.

Contact. In Hungary, two suicides shot themselves while listening to music played by gypsies. In addition, quite a few people always take the music score of "Melancholy Sunday" when they go to the Danube to throw themselves into the river, including a girl of 14 years old. An 80-year-old man whimpered and hummed this song and jumped off the seventh floor to commit suicide. It is reported that a gentleman who walked out of a nightclub opened his head with a bullet. He had just asked the nightclub band to play Blue Sunday for him. There is even a widely circulated report involving composer Rezso Seress himself. It is said that when this song became a best-selling song, Seress contacted her ex-girlfriend and put forward the idea of getting back together. Unexpectedly, the girl committed suicide by taking poison the next day. There are two words written on a piece of paper next to her: "gloomy Sunday". Budapest police are convinced that this "suicide song" has a disastrous impact on people and think it is best to ban it.

In addition to Hungary, other European countries and the United States also reported that "melancholy Sunday" triggered suicide. A young clerk in Berlin hanged himself, and a copy of the song was falling at his feet. In Rome, when a newsboy heard a beggar humming the tune "Melancholy Sunday" in the street, he stopped his bike and approached the beggar, gave him all his money, and then jumped into the river from a nearby bridge to commit suicide. In new york, a beautiful female typist committed suicide by gas poisoning, and left a suicide note, demanding that Melancholy Sunday be shown at her funeral. Because of these terrible suicides, the British BBC radio once banned this song, and the American broadcasting network immediately followed suit; Washington Senator Stephen Carr calls for melancholy.

Sunday is listed as a forbidden song. In France, even a radio station specially invited a spiritualist to discuss the influence of this song, but the broadcast of these programs did not seem to have any inhibitory effect on the increasing number of suicide cases at that time. Times have changed. When the public's panic about a series of suicides gradually subsided, the BBC agreed to replay Melancholy Sunday, but only for the instrumental version of the song. This version was quickly recorded. One day, a policeman in London heard this kind of instrumental music coming from a nearby apartment, and the music repeated endlessly over and over again, so he thought it was a strange thing and worth investigating. After entering the apartment, he found a jukebox playing the song repeatedly, next to which was a woman who had taken too much barbital hydrochloride (a sedative).

Rezso Seress, the author of this song, finally failed to escape the curse of bad luck. 1968 On a cold winter day, he committed suicide by jumping off a building in his seventies. It is reported that Ceres is a short, humorous Jewish man who plays the piano poorly and has always regretted not receiving a good music education. Apart from being imprisoned in a concentration camp for a period of time during World War II, he mainly spent his life in the Kispipa Hotel in Budapest (the English literal translation of Kispipa is "little pipe"), where he played the piano for guests. Because of his short stature, he was blocked by a brown piano when playing. Whenever a new guest comes in, especially a familiar friend, he will raise his left hand (wearing a striking gold ring on his stubby ring finger), lean out his head and show a funny smile to welcome him. This greeting is a trick he plays to hide that he can only play music with his right hand. It is said that just to show off, he often puts some music on the piano stand and puts his nose in front of the piano stand to pretend to play according to the music, but in fact he can't read the music skillfully. After the song Melancholy Sunday became famous, many famous musicians, artists and celebrities visited him (or made a pilgrimage to the hotel after his death), which made his visitor record look like a Who's Who in the 20th century.