Jeanny

Out of the dark

Der Kommissar

Rock me Amadeus

Discography

1982 - Einzelhaft, (Solitary Confinement or Incarcerated

1. "Zuviel Hitze" (Too Much Heat) - 4:31
2. "Der Kommissar" (The Commissioner) - 3:51
3. "Siebzehn Jahr" (Seventeen Years) - 3:54
4. "Auf der Flucht" (loosely "On The Run") - 4:13
5. "Ganz Wien" - (All Vienna) 5:06 (Falco)
6. "Maschine brennt" (Machine Is Burning) - 3:36
7. "Hinter uns die Sintflut" (After Us, The Deluge) - 3:16
8. "Nie mehr Schule" (No More School)- 4:36
9. "Helden von heute" (Heroes Of Today) - 4:07 (Falco)
10. "Einzelhaft" - (Solitary Confinement) - 4:01

1984. Junge Roemer (Young Romans)

1. "Junge Roemer" (Young Romans) - 4:33
2. "Tut-Ench-Amon (Tutankhamen)" - 4:33
3. "Brillantin' Brutal'" (Brutal Brilliantine) - 3:50
4. "Ihre Tochter" (Your Daughter) - 4:31
5. "No Answer (Hallo Deutschland)" - 3:39
6. "Nur mit dir" (Only With You) - 4:29
7. "Hoch wie nie" (Higher Than Ever) - 4:23
8. "Steuermann" (Taxman) - 3:47
9. "Kann es Liebe sein" (Can It Be Love) - 4:06

11.09.1985. Falco 3

1. "Rock Me Amadeus" (The Gold Mix) (U.S. version substitutes "The Salieri Version", spelled wrongly as "Solieri Version") (3:22/8:20)
2. "America" (The City Of Grinzing Version) (3:56)
3. "Tango the Night" (The Heart Mix) (2:28)
4. "Munich Girls" (Lookin' for Love) (Just Another Paid One) (4:17)
5. "Jeanny" (Sus-Mix-Spect Crime Version) (5:50)
6. "Vienna Calling" (Waiting For the Extended Mix) (U.S. version substitutes "The Metternich Arrival Mix") (4:02/7:38)
7. "Männer des Westens-Any Kind of Land" (Wilde Bube Version) (4:00)
8. "Nothing Sweeter Than Arabia" (The Relevant Madhouse Danceteria Jour-Fix-Mix) (4:46)
9. "Macho Macho" (Sensible Boy's Song) (4:56)
10. "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" (No Mix) (4:41)

1986. Emotional 

1. "Emotional"- 4:52
2. "Kamikaze Cappa" - 5:10
3. "Crime Time" - 4:24
4. "Cowboyz and Indianz" - 5:46
5. "Coming Home (Jeanny Part II, One Year Later)" - 5:32
6. "The Star of Moon and Sun" - 5:19
7. "Les Nouveaux Riches" - 4:31
8. "The Sound of Musik" - 4:56
9. "The Kiss of Kathleen Turner" - 7:32

1988. Wiener Blut

1. "Wiener Blut" [Viennese Blood] - 3:31
2. "Falco Rides Again" - 4:45
3. "Untouchable" - 3:18
4. "Tricks" - 3:55
5. "Garbo" - 3:52
6. "Satellite to Satellite" - 5:16
7. "Read a Book" - 3:57
8. "Walls of Silence" - 4:41
9. "Solid Booze" - 4:33
10. "Sand Am Himalaya" - 4:01
11. "Do It Again" - 5:15

1990. Data de Groove

1. Neo Nothing - Post Of All - 4:45
2. Expocityvisions - 4:08
3. Charisma Kommando - 4:47
4. Tanja P. nicht Cindy C. - 3:35
5. Pusher - 4:25
6. Data de Groove - 4:38
7. Alles im Liegen - 5:04
8. U.4.2.P.1. Club Dub - 3:41
9. Bar Minor 7/11 (Jeanny Dry) - 3:45
10. Anaconda 'mour - 0:57

1992. Nachtflug

1. "Titanic" - 3:35
2. "Monarchy Now" - 4:12
3. "Dance Mephisto" - 3:31
4. "Psychos" - 3:16
5. "Skandal" - 3:56
6. "Yah-Vibration" - 3:33
7. "Propaganda" - 3:36
8. "Time" - 4:07
9. "Cadillac Hotel" - 5:07
10. "Nachtflug" - 3:15

27.02.1998. Out of the Dark

1. "No time for Revolution" - 3:52
2. "Out of the Dark" - 3:37
3. "Shake" - 3:42
4. "Der Kommissar 2000" - 3:48
5. "Mutter, der Mann mit dem Koks ist da" - 3:39
6. "Hit me" - 3:47
7. "Cyberlove" - 3:34
8. "Egoist" - 3:27
9. "Naked" (Full Frontal Version) / Geld (Hidden Track) - 11:29

1999. Verdammt wir leben noch

1. Verdammt Wir Leben Noch (Falco, Thomas Lang, Thomas Rabitsch) - 5:14
2. Die Königin Von Eschnapur (Falco, Thomas Lang, Thomas Rabitsch) - 4:29
3. Qué Pasa Hombre? (Falco, Gunther Mende, Candy DeRouge) - 4:14
4. Europa (Falco, Thomas Lang, Thomas Rabitsch) - 5:07
5. Fascinating Man (Falco, Rob Bolland, Ferdi Bolland) - 4:00
6. Poison (Falco, Gunther Mende, Candy DeRouge) - 4:22
7. Ecce Machina (Thomas Lang) - 5:31
8. We Live For The Night (Falco, Rob Bolland, Ferdi Bolland) - 3:52
9. Krise (Falco, Thomas Lang, Thomas Rabitsch) - 3:54
10. From The North To The South (Falco, Rob Bolland, Ferdi Bolland) - 3:11
11. Der Kommissar (Club 69 remix) (Falco, Robert Ponger) - 3:41
12. Verdammt Wir Leben Noch (remix) - 4:26

Death

Death

Falco died of severe injuries received from a collision with a bus in his Mitsubishi Montero on the road linking the towns of Villa Montellano and Puerto Plata, in the Dominican Republic on 6 February 1998, just two weeks before his 41st birthday. It was initially reported that the autopsy showed high blood levels of alcohol and cocaine, however this was later dismissed. At the time of his death, he was planning a comeback. He was buried in the Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery) in Vienna, Austria.


Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falco_(musician)

Biography

Johann (Hans) Hölzel (19 February 1957 – 6 February 1998), better known by his stage name Falco, was an Austrian pop and rock musician and rapper. He had several international hits: "Der Kommissar", "Rock Me Amadeus", "Vienna Calling", "Jeanny", "The Sound of Musik", "Coming Home (Jeanny Part 2)" and posthumously, "Out Of The Dark". He is the first and only artist to date whose principal language was German to score a number-one hit in the United States with "Rock Me Amadeus". His estate claims he has sold 40 million albums and 20 million singles to date, which makes him one of the best selling Austrian singers ever.

Early years

Falco began to show signs of unusual musical talent very early. As a toddler, he was able to keep time with the drumbeat in songs he heard on the radio. He was given a baby grand piano for his fourth birthday; a year later, his birthday gift was a record player which he used to play music by Elvis Presley, Cliff Richard, and the Beatles. At age five, he auditioned for the Vienna Music Academy, where it was confirmed that he had perfect pitch.

In 1963, Hölzel began his schooling at a Roman Catholic private school; four years later, at age ten, he switched to the Rainer Gymnasium in Vienna. Shortly thereafter his father Alois Hölzel left the family. From then on, Hölzel was raised by his mother and grandmother and remained very close to them all his life.

He left school at sixteen in 1973 due to absenteeism. His mother then insisted he begin an apprenticeship with the Austrian employee pension insurance institute, but this only lasted a short time. At seventeen, he volunteered for eight months of military service with the Austrian army.

He entered the Vienna Music Conservatory in 1977, but left after one semester to "become a real musician". For a short time, he lived in West Berlin while singing in a jazz-rock band and exploring the club scene. When he returned to Vienna he was calling himself "Falco", reportedly in tribute to the East German ski jumper Falko Weißpflog (he changed one letter to make the name more international), and playing in the Austrian bands Spinning Wheel and Hallucination Company.^[1]

En route to becoming an international rock star in his own right, he was bass player in the Austrian hard rock - punk rock band Drahdiwaberl (from 1978 until 1983). With Drahdiwaberl he wrote and performed the song "Ganz Wien" ("All Vienna"), which he would also include on his debut solo album, Einzelhaft (Solitary Confinement ). He also played bass with the space disco band Ganymed in 1981.

Individual success

Falco's first hit was "Der Kommissar" ("The Commissioner") from the 1982 album Einzelhaft. A German language song about drug consumption that combines rap verses with a sung chorus, Falco's record was a number-one success in many countries but failed to break big in the U.S. The song, however, would prove to have a life of its own in two English-language versions. British rock band After the Fire recorded an English cover version, loosely based on Falco's lyrics and also called "Der Kommissar" (with "uh-oh" and "alles klar Herr Kommissar" the only other lyrics held over from the original). This time, the song shot to number five in the United States (their only major hit there) in 1983, though it failed to crack the UK Top 40. That same year, American singer Laura Branigan recorded a version of the song with new English lyrics under the title "Deep In The Dark" on her album Branigan 2.

After a second album, Junge Roemer (Young Romans) failed to provide a repeat to his debut single's success (outside of Austria and Germany, where the album topped the charts), Falco began to experiment with English lyrics in an effort to broaden his appeal, and chose a new production team. The result would be the most popular album and single of his career.

Falco recorded "Rock Me Amadeus" inspired in part by the Oscar-winning film Amadeus, and the song became a worldwide hit in 1986. This time, his record reached #1 in the U.S. and UK, bringing him the success that had eluded him in that major market a few years earlier. The song remained in the top spot of the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks and his album, Falco 3, fittingly peaked at the number three position on the Billboard album charts. The Austrian singers climbed to the upper reaches of the Billboard Top R&B Singles Chart (once called the "Black Singles" chart), peaking at number 6, becoming the first major hit by a white artist since Blondie's chart-topping "Rapture" six years earlier. Falco 3 peaked at number 18 on the Top R&B / Hip-Hop Albums charts. Ultimately, "Rock Me Amadeus" went to the #1 spot in over a dozen countries including Japan. Follow-up single "Vienna Calling" was another international pop hit, peaking at #18 of the Billboard Charts and #17 on the U.S. Cash Box Charts in 1986. A double A-side 12" single featuring remixes of those two hits peaked at #4 on the U.S. Dance/Disco charts.

"Jeanny", the third release from the album Falco 3, brought the performer back to the top of the charts across Europe. Highly controversial when it was released in Germany and the Netherlands, the story of "Jeanny" was told from the point of view of a rapist and possible murderer. Several DJs and radio stations refused to play the ballad, which was ignored in the U.S., though it became a huge hit in many European countries, and inspired two sequels on later albums.

In 1986, the album Emotional was released, produced by Rob and Ferdi Bolland (Bolland & Bolland). Songs on the album included "Coming Home (Jeanny Part 2)," "The Kiss of Kathleen Turner", and "Kamikaze Capa" which was written as a tribute to the late photojournalist Robert Capa. "The Sound of Musik" was another international success, and a Top 20 U.S. dance hit, though it failed to make the U.S. pop charts.

In 1987 he went on "Emotional" world tour ending in Japan. In the same year he sang a duet with Brigitte Nielsen, "Body Next to Body"; the single was a Top 10 hit in the Germanic countries. The album Wiener Blut (Viennese Blood) was released in 1988 but it did not get much publicity outside Germany and Austria.

In 1990, he wrote a song about Cindy Crawford and Tatjana Patitz, "Tanja P. not Cindy C.", which appeared on the album Data de Groove.

After 1986 there were a number of European hits, but Falco was rarely heard in the U.S. and the UK. His 1992 comeback attempt, the album Nachtflug (Night Flight) including the song "Titanic", was successful in the German speaking territories, but failed to chart internationally.

Death

Falco died of severe injuries received from a collision with a bus in his Mitsubishi Montero on the road linking the towns of Villa Montellano and Puerto Plata, in the Dominican Republic on 6 February 1998, just two weeks before his 41st birthday. It was initially reported that the autopsy showed high blood levels of alcohol and cocaine, however this was later dismissed. At the time of his death, he was planning a comeback. He was buried in the Zentralfriedhof (Central Cemetery) in Vienna, Austria.


Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falco_(musician)

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