Written by: Donald Roeser
Produced by: Murray Krugman, Sandy Pearlman, David Lucas
Released: July '76 on Columbia
Charts: 14 weeks
Top spot: No. 12
This Long Island metal band's death trip was picked by ROLLING STONE critics as the best rock single of 1976. With its ghostly guitars and cowbell, "Reaper" has added chills to horror flicks from Halloween to The Stand. Bonus points for the crackpot theology about how "40,000 men and women every day" join Romeo and Juliet in eternity.
Appears on: Agents of Fortune (Columbia)