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Killing Me Softly with His Song
Roberta Flack

Killing Me Softly with His Song wasn't written about a lover - it was written about the terror of being seen.
Lori Lieberman always said she watched a young Don McLean sing at the Troubadour one night in 1971, went home, and scribbled a poem. Songwriters Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox turned it into a song. Fifty years later, they still disagree about whose story it really is.
Roberta Flack heard it playing on an airplane and made it immortal.
Have you ever heard a song that felt like it was written just for you?
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