| Agents of Fortune is the 1976 release by Blue Öyster Cult, originally released in a gatefold sleeve.
The platinum selling album peaked at #29 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart, while the single "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" peaked at #12 on the Pop Singles chart, making it Blue Öyster Cult's biggest hit. The album was also the band's greatest critical success, voted one of the ten best rock albums of 1976 in the annual Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics' poll.
Upon the success of the single, "(Don't Fear) The Reaper", Blue Öyster Cult became the center of a controversy surrounding the supposed pro-suicide lyrics of the song, which is actually a love ballad concerning love that lasts beyond death, and a call to seize the day. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply. |
