The German-speaking world was in mourning Monday for Austrian crooner and composer Udo Juergens who died suddenly in his adopted Swiss homeland -- in the middle of a tour -- aged 80. The "schlager" superstar's death from heart failure was the top item on the television news on Sunday evening in Germany, Austria and in German-speaking Switzerland, and his photo was splashed across front pages on Monday. Fellow tabloid Oesterreich went so far as to call him "Austria's second Mozart". Germany's Bild Zeitung's front page said "Merci, Genie!" ("Thank you genius!"), while several others went with "Merci, Udo" in a nod to his first hit, "Merci, Cherie" ("Thank you, darling"), which won him the Eurovision Song Contest in 1966.
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