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Auf Wiedersehen

Certain Songs #190: Cheap Trick – “Auf Wiedersehen”

May 12, 2015 by Jim Connelly

Cheap_Trick_Heaven_Tonight

Album: Heaven Tonight.

Year: 1978.

One of the greatest songs about suicide ever written – along with The Replacements “The Ledge” and Big Fun’s “Teenage Suicide (Don’t Do It)” – “Auf Wiedersehen” gets across on sheer power and conviction. As big-sounding as Cheap Trick ever got, the verses are Robin Zander singing various phrases for “goodbye” and then describing the consequences of death.
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Filed Under: Certain Songs, Music Tagged With: Auf Wiedersehen, Cheap Trick, Heaven Tonight

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