Falco: Die Biografie (German Edition)
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He was even called "a new Mozart". His parents separated early, and he remained with his mum and grandmother. He left school at 16, and after trying a couple of jobs, he decided that music would be the right thing for him after all. He enrolled at the Music Conservatory in Vienna and started playing in different bands, in Vienna as well as in West Berlin. It was in that he decided to change his name to Falco , after an East German skier, Falko Weisspflog.
This was the beginning of an extraordinary career. He felt that playing in bands like Drahdiwaberl and Spinning Wheel or the Hallucination Company could not entirely satisfy him; even though his song "Ganz Wien" about the local drug scene was a huge hit at the Drahdiwaberl gigs, he was mainly acting in the background, playing the bass guitar. So when marcus Spiegel from GIG records offered him a solo contract, he accepted. His first single, " Der Kommissar ", became an international hit.
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Der Kommissar sold over 7 million copies including cover versions. It was too refined, too far ahead of its time, to be a hit with the masses.
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Once Falco was signed as a solo artist, he continued composing his own music and hired songwriter Robert Ponger. Falco brought his intended first single "Helden Von Heute" to manager Horst Bork, but received a lukewarm reception. Bork felt that the b-side, " Der Kommissar " was much stronger. Falco was hesitant, since the track is a German-language song about drug consumption that combines rap verses with a sung chorus. Though beginning to break through in America, rap was still quite rare in Western Europe at the time.
Bork insisted and the song became a number-one success in Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Japan, while charting high in several other nations. Though "Der Kommissar" failed to break through in the U. This version charted at number five on the Billboard Hot in the U. The album on which "Der Kommissar" appeared, Einzelhaft , also topped the charts in Austria and the Netherlands. It was a difficult project, as the two artists felt immense pressure to match their previous success and the recording process was plagued by delays. Even though the music video for the single "Hoch wie nie" Higher Than Ever was aired on prime time TV in Austria, it failed to ignite interest internationally.
As a reaction, Falco began to experiment with English lyrics in an effort to broaden his appeal. Falco recorded " Rock Me Amadeus " inspired in part by the Oscar -winning film Amadeus , and the song became a worldwide hit in This time, his record reached No. The song remained in the top spot of the Billboard Hot for three weeks and his album, Falco 3 peaked at the number three position on the Billboard album charts.
Ultimately, "Rock Me Amadeus" went to the No. Follow-up single "Vienna Calling" was another international pop hit, peaking at No.
A double A-side 12" single featuring remixes of those two hits peaked at No. Highly controversial when it was released in Germany and the Netherlands, the story of "Jeanny" was told from the point of view of a possible rapist and murderer.
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Several DJs and radio stations refused to play the ballad, which was ignored in the US, though it became a huge hit in many European countries, and inspired a sequel on his next album. After the success of "Rock Me Amadeus," there were talks of crossing over more permanently into the U.
These possibilities fell through, in part, due to Falco's personal problems. At this point in his career, he was dangerously addicted to alcohol and drugs. In he went on the Emotional world tour ending in Japan. The album Wiener Blut Viennese Blood was released in but it did not get much publicity outside Germany and Austria. His comeback attempt, the album Nachtflug Night Flight including the song " Titanic ", was successful in Austria only.
Starting in the early s, Falco lived in the Dominican Republic, where he worked on his last album from to It charted at number one in Austria for 21 weeks.