How we made Blue Öyster Cult's Don't Fear the Reaper
‘I sang about Romeo and Juliet being together in eternity, but I got a lot of grief for it. Everyone said I was promoting suicide’
Donald ‘Buck Dharma’ Roeser, singer/guitarist/songwriter
were a cult band. We wrote romantic songs with historically based themes. We were happy in our niche and certainly never thought of ourselves as a pop group. At first, I thought Don’t Fear the Reaper would be played on album-oriented radio, like all our other songs. I never dreamed it would become such a famous song, or that the riff would be
