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| Length = (Album version) (Single/Radio edit) (Full version) | Label = Columbia | Writer = Buck Dharma | Producer = David Lucas, Murray Krugman, Sandy Pearlman | Last single = "Born to be Wild" (1975) | This single = "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" (1976) | Next single = "Goin' Through the Motions" / "Searchin' for Celine" (1977) }} "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" is a song by the American rock band Blue Öyster Cult from their 1976 album, ''Agents of Fortune''. It was written and sung by the band's lead guitarist, Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser and was produced by David Lucas, Murray Krugman, and Sandy Pearlman. The song is built around Dharma's opening, repetitive guitar riff, while the lyrics deal with eternal love and the inevitability of death. Dharma wrote the song while picturing an early death for himself. Released as an edited single, the song was Blue Öyster Cult's biggest chart success, reaching #7 in Cash Box and #12 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in late 1976. Additionally, critical reception was mainly positive and, in 2004, "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" was listed at number 397 on the ''Rolling Stone'' list of the top 500 songs of all time. == Background == The song is about the inevitability of death and the foolishness of fearing it, and was written when Dharma was thinking about what would happen if he died at a young age. Lyrics such as "Romeo and Juliet are together in eternity" have led many listeners to interpret the song to be about a murder-suicide pact, but Dharma says the song is about eternal love, rather than suicide. He used Romeo and Juliet as motifs to describe a couple believing they would meet again in the afterlife. He guessed that "40,000 men and women" died each day, and the figure was used several times in the lyrics. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「(Don't Fear) The Reaper」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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