Triumphs and tragedies – pop ephemera: a hit, to oblivion!

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Hit and gone: some bands are lucky – or are they unlucky? – become famous overnight with a single song. What’s behind the ‘one-hit wonder’ phenomenon? Krone+ looked for clues and discovered how close triumph and tragedy are to each other.

“Live Is Life”, “Tainted Love”, “Ice Ice Baby”, “Eye Of The Tiger”, “Tubthumping”, “Mambo No. 5” or “Gangnam Style” – sometimes a single catchy tune, a single hit is enough to catapult an artist’s career to unimaginable heights and leave a cultural imprint.

Too often, singers and bands fail to repeat their sensational success and are labeled ‘one-hit wonders’. But this does not mean that his or her creative influence is forgotten. Countless pop music classics have been written by songwriters who had just one super hit and then quickly faded into oblivion.

Source: Krone

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