"Seven Tears" is a popular song by the

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, released in 1981. It was released as the only single from their third studio album, ''Holiday in Paradise'', and was subsequently featured on the UK-only compilation ''Seven Tears''. Written by Wolff-Ekkehardt Stein and Wolfgang Jass, and produced by Jochen Peterson, "Seven Tears" was a major hit across Europe in the winter and spring of 1982. The song spent three weeks at number one on the

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, being the fourth time a German act had topped the UK chart, six weeks after

Kraftwerk Kraftwerk (, "power station") is a German band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. Widely considered innovators and pioneers of electronic music, Kraftwerk were among the first successful acts to popularize the ...

had achieved that feat with "

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" in 1982 and

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with "

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" and "

Mary's Boy Child "Mary's Boy Child", also known as "Mary's Little Boy Child", is a 1956 Christmas song, written by Jester Hairston. It is widely performed as a Christmas carol. History The song had its genesis when Hairston was sharing a room with a friend. The ...

" in 1978.

Track listings

;7" vinyl single ;12" vinyl single

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Cover versions

*French singer Séverine recorded a German version in 1981 named "Sieben Tränen". *Dutch singer

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recorded a Dutch version, named "Zeven brieven", which was a charting hit in 1982. *The song was covered by

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n pop singer

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as "Sedam suza" in 1982. *The Swedish dansband

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recorded a Swedish version of the song in 1982, named "Hundra tårar". *Croatian singer

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also covered the song as "Sedam suza" in 1997.

References

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