By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-11-07 08:35:04 | Updated at 2024-11-07 10:37:11
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For the past 17 years a worldwide army of online sleuths obsessively tried to figure out the title of what has been dubbed “the most mysterious song on the internet”.
Now they have the answer after a chance discovery by one intrepid researcher, who triumphantly reported his breakthrough on online forum Reddit: it is called “Subways of Your Mind” and was recorded by a little-known 1980s German band called FEX.
The former band members are “absolutely overwhelmed” by the news, 68-year-old Michael Haedrich, who played keyboard and guitar and sang backup vocals for FEX, told Der Spiegel magazine.
The band had been oblivious to the online phenomenon, he admitted.
The mystery began in 2007, when a German brother and sister uploaded a track online that they had digitised after originally recording it as teenagers on a cassette from the radio.
