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Falco, stage name of Johann (Hans) Hölzel was an Austrian rock musician, who scored a few big hits in the eighties. More

Falco , stage name of Johann Hans Hölzel was an Austrian rock musician, who scored a few big hits in the 1980s.

Falco studied in Vienna at the conservatory. After the conservatory he became bassist in the hard rock group Drahdiwaberl . His breakthrough came in 1981 as a solo artist with the international hit Der Kommissar . The follow-up to that success only came after he started working with the Dutch producer duo Bolland & Bolland in 1985. The collaboration did not always go smoothly as Falco was sometimes drunk or stoned or did not show up at all for an appointment.

Following on from the success of the feature film "Amadeus" (1984), Bolland & Bolland wrote the song Rock Me Amadeus for him. It became a worldwide hit. It was the first German-language song since World War II to reach number one in the United States. Jeanny was also successful and at the same time controversial because it told about the kidnapping of a girl, from the point of view of the kidnapper, apparently driven by sexual motives. After that, Falco was no longer able to achieve great success outside the German language area.

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