Killing Me Softly with His Song

Killing Me Softly with His Song is a song from 1972; it was written by Norman Gimbel ( lyrics ) and Charles Fox.

Originally the song under the title Killing Me Softly with His Blues was written for the American singer Lori Lieberman. She gave the initial impetus, after hearing a concert of Don McLean and was deeply impressed.

1973, this song was an international hit with Roberta Flack, who was covered in the same year in Germany by Manuela. In the U.S., the song spent three weeks at number 1

Another hit parade in 1996, the hip- hop group The Fugees singer Lauryn Hill with the. Your version of Killing Me Softly reached the top chart, place 2 in the U.S. To date, the song was very often gecovert in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the UK.

In the play tells the lyrical I of a singer who has sung of his life, although he did not know it: " I felt he found my letters and read each one out loud ." It feels ashamed because his life is revealed before all.

Also in the film About a Boy: The Day of the Dead Duck Song plays a role: the young protagonist Marcus carries him before in a competition of his school and is ridiculed by his classmates, but his (replacement) father, played by Hugh Grant, it stands at.