Adiós Amor | |
Cover: | Adiós_Amor_(Andy_Borg_song).jpg |
Type: | single |
Artist: | Andy Borg |
Released: | 1982 |
Label: | Papagayo |
Composer: | Tex Shultzieg |
"Adios Amor" is a 1982 hit German-language song by Andy Borg on Papagayo/EMI Electrola. It was Borg's debut single, and was No. 1 in Germany for five weeks 27 August–24 September, remaining in the charts for a total 39 weeks.[1] The single was also No. 1 in Austria, where it spent 30 weeks in the charts,[2] and No. 2 in Switzerland.[3] The album Adiós Amor in the same year also went to the top of the album charts in both Germany and Austria.[4] [5] It remains Borg's signature song. The lyrics by Kurt Feltz to music by Tex Shultzieg (b.1948) arranged by Alexander Gietz. The song begins "Ich sah dir in's Gesicht, du sagtest: Frag mich nicht".[6]
Kurt Feltz died hours before the song has been aired first time in the German Hitparade on a heart attack while he was swimming in the sea.