Don T Fear The Reaper

Don t fear the reaper is a song by american rock band blue öyster cult from the band s 1976 album agents of fortune.

Don t fear the reaper. One it raised young american s awareness of the umlaut that double dot over the o in öyster and it provided the basis for one of will ferrell s most memorable saturday night live sketches from 2000 with christopher walken insisting don t fear the reaper needs more cowbell. That was the first tune that i had created once i got a teac four track recorder. When affordable multi track recorders became available in. We can all be grateful to blue öyster cult for a couple of things.

Blue oyster cult don t fear the reaper follow us. The song written and sung by lead guitarist donald buck dharma roeser deals with eternal love and the inevitability of death dharma wrote the song while picturing an early death for himself.