Adios Cupid

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Adios Cupid
Rockefeller's Fantastic Sound
publication 1981
length 1:35 (first version), 3:30 (Andy Borg)
Genre (s) Bat
Author (s) Tex Shultzieg , Kurt Feltz
album Please music
Cover version
1982 Andy Borg

Adios Amor is a German-language hit , the most famous version of which was sung by Andy Borg and reached number one in the German and Austrian charts. The song became a breakthrough for Borg and is considered his most famous song.

Emergence

The song was written by Tex Shultzieg (alias Hans Schulz-Clahsen) and Kurt Feltz for Feltz's project Rockefellers Fantastic Sound and first appeared in 1981 in a 1:35 minute version on the album Please Music , in 1982 in a 3:28 minute long Version on the record Zärtliche Lieder , both on Karussell .

The protagonist of the ballad says goodbye to the loved one who cheated on him with his best friend, causing him to lose both and feel "abandoned".

Version by Andy Borg

After Feltz had signed the then 21-year-old Andy Borg and gave him the stage name based on the popular tennis player Björn Borg , he let him sing Adios Amor, among other things . Feltz also produced the song. Reinhard Besser played guitar, Tissy Thiers bass and Hartmut Pfannmüller played drums.

Publication and reception

Adios Amor was published on Papagayo / EMI in 1982 . The song became the number one hit in Germany and Austria in 1982 - when the German-language hit came under increasing pressure from the Neue Deutsche Welle . In Germany he was in the top position for five weeks, from August 27th to September 24th. In total, the song was in the German charts for 39 weeks, from June 14, 1982 (number 36) to March 7, 1983 (number 62). In Austria the single stayed in the hit list for 30 weeks. In Switzerland , Adios Amor came in second (twelve chart weeks); in the Netherlands the single reached number eleven and in the Flemish part of Belgium number two in the local charts. An English-language version by Andy Borg was also published in September 1982.

Back then in Germany it was certified with the golden record for more than 250,000 units, and to date it has sold more than 14 million copies internationally. The album of the same name also reached the top position in the Austrian charts, in Germany it came in second.

In the ZDF hit parade , Adios Amor was voted second by TED on August 2, 1982 ; Borg sang the song again in the following broadcast on September 6, 1982. The author Kurt Feltz died on August 2nd, the day that Borg first presented the song in the hit parade, in Pollença / Mallorca from heart failure while swimming in the sea.

Andy Borg also sang the song on his farewell in the Musikantenstadl in 2015; He also recorded a farewell album called 33 Years Adios Amor .

Chart placements

Charts Top ranking Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK) Germany (GfK) 1 (39 weeks) 39
Austria (Ö3) Austria (Ö3) 1 (30 weeks) 30th
Switzerland (IFPI) Switzerland (IFPI) 2 (12 weeks) 12

Awards for music sales

Country / Region Award Sales
Awards for music sales
(country / region, Award, Sales)
Germany (BVMI) Germany (BVMI) Gold record icon.svg gold 250,000
All in all Gold record icon.svg 1 × gold
250,000

More cover versions

At least 16 other cover versions are known:

Individual evidence

  1. Tex Shultzieg at Discogs (English)
  2. a b https://hitparade.ch/song/Rockefellers-Fantastic-Sound/Adios-amor-884772
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rRIJLhHeT0
  4. With "Adios Amor" straight into the hit sky. In: Stadlpost. November 2, 2015, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  5. Andy Borg - Adios Amor at Discogs
  6. https://www.offiziellecharts.de/titel-details-869
  7. https://hitparade.ch/song/Andy-Borg/Adios-amor-869
  8. https://hitparade.ch/song/Andy-Borg/Adios-amor- [english] -850274
  9. ^ Claudia Fromme: Adiós Amor. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. February 25, 2015, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  10. Died: Kurt Feltz . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32 , 1982, pp. 160 ( online - Aug. 9, 1982 ).
  11. Leslie Brook: Interview with Andy Borg: "As a farewell I sing 'Adios Amor'". In: RP Online. June 27, 2015, accessed April 26, 2019 .
  12. a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH
  13. Gold / platinum database. musikindustrie.de, accessed on April 15, 2019 .
  14. https://cover.info/de/song/Rockefellers-Fantastic-Sound-Adios-Amor