On April 26, 1972, I was at Saarland University, where classes on the history of Eastern European "people's democracies," post-Napoleonic Germany and international socialism before WWI were keeping me busy. Nonetheless, I was able to listen to the radio. This was one of the big hits of the time--a song about a young man who dies of a drug overdose:
On the Day Conny Kramer Died--Juliane Werding