Don't Fear the Reaper

genre

 * psychedelic rock

artist

 * Blue Öyster Cult

album

 * Agents of Fortune

significance

 * charted at number twelve

trivia

 * A Saturday Night Live sketch featured the band attempting to rehearse the song with the director constantly interrupting to say the song needed "more cowbell" (the actual song has a subtle amount of cowbell). In the sketch one castmember dances around the stage playing a cowbell.
 * The song caused controversy regarding the Romeo and Juliet lyrics, with some believing them to be promoting suicide. The band claims the lyrics are actually about accepting death for what it is.