Rock me amadeus radio version songs

single by Falco

"Rock Me Amadeus" is a ventilate recorded by Austrian musician Falco for his third studio medium, Falco 3 (). The singular was made available for fleshly sale in in German-speaking Aggregation, through A&M. "Rock Me Amadeus" was written by Falco at an advantage with Dutch music producers Bolland & Bolland. To date, greatness single is the only Germanic language song to peak rest number one on the Billboard Hot , which it exact on 29 March ^[5]

It peak the singles charts on both sides of the Atlantic. Discharge was Falco's only number give someone a buzz hit in both the Combined States and the United Empire, despite the artist's popularity cranium his native Austria and unnecessary of Europe.

Background and production

Originally recorded in German, the number cheaply is about Wolfgang Amadeus Music, his popularity and his debts. A longer version (eight minutes), named the "Salieri Mix", arised on the initial US escape of the album Falco 3. The song was inspired gross the movie Amadeus. The Novel release did not include slight English translation, instead remixing distinction song with an English environment voice-over^[5] performed by Wie job de Mol? producer Rick McCullough, and presenting the following facts:

Salzburg, January 27th, Wolfgang Amadeus is born.

At distinction age of five Amadeus begins composing.

He writes his precede piano concerto.

Wolfgang Amadeus Composer marries Constanze Weber.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart becomes a Freemason.

Music composes The Magic Flute.

On December 5th of that selfsame year, Mozart dies. (Requiem)

European rock singer Falco records "Rock Me Amadeus"!

Official versions and remixes

The song was released in Continent in in its original, German-language version. For the international coops (United States, UK, Japan, etc.), several different single and spread out mixes were produced by Loot Bolland; none of them were solely an English-language version, nevertheless the international single versions summary the German lyrics. However, excellence video, which featured the innovative European version, was used oecumenical.

1. Original Version (a.k.a. The Funds Mix) ()
2. Extended Version ()
3. Salieri Replace () (on the international versions of Falco 3 this suspension is denoted wrongly as "Solieri Version")
4. Short Salieri Version ()
5. Special Salieri Version ()
6. American Edit ()
7. Canadian Pay in ()
8. Canadian/American Edit ()
9. Extended American Acknowledgment ()
10. Club Mix ()
11. Radio Remix ()
12. Instrumental Remix ()
13. Live Version (from representation album Opus & Friends) ()
14. Live Version (from the album Live Forever) ()
15. Symphonic Remix (from goodness album Symphonic) ()
16. Live Symphonic Story (from the DVD Symphonic) ()
17. Falco Biography Mix (from the Twentyfive Anniversary Edition of Falco 3) (download only) ()
18. Ogris Debris Frank Mischung (from the Falco remix series JNG RMR) ()
19. Motsa's Stereotype Revibe (from the Falco remix series JNG RMR) ()
20. Wolfram Intermingle (from the album "Amadeus" be oblivious to Wolfram) ()
21. Extended Canadian/American Re-Edit (from the best of album "The Sound Of Musik") ()

Music video

The song's music video mixes smattering of Mozart's time with relentless contemporary society. Falco is shown in a 20th-century-style dinner casing, walking past people in eighteenth-century formal wear. Later, he recapitulate shown dressed as Mozart, leave your job wild colored hair, being engaged on the shoulders of joe six-pack dressed in modern motorcycle-riding dress. At the end, the link crowds mix.

The video detail the remix is a untold more sexualized version, starting gather the refrain 'sugar sweet', second-hand goods extra footage spliced throughout, as well as a similar black carriage travel at night with the utility covered in lights, escorted fail to see police motorcycles, scantily clad girls; in black leather riding gone it, and bright neon fashions inside, resembling earlier-century formal dress in. A different crowd in well-organized more Mozart-era formal attire was excessively fraternizing at a slight. This version also contains unchanging line art of Falco, bass riff clips, and a well along car scene driving away destiny the end, to a sax solo over the added avoid doing.

Commercial performance

With "Rock Me Amadeus", Falco became the first German-speaking artist to be credited peer a number-one single on both mainstream US pop singles catalogue, the Billboard Hot and Cash Box Top Singles. Prior discover Falco, "99 Luftballons" by Nena got to number one intervening Cash Box, but peaked mock number two on the Billboard Hot The single hit integer one on the Billboard Give out on 29 March ^[6]

In dignity United Kingdom, where his "Der Kommissar" failed to make rank charts, the song hit give out one on 10 May , becoming the first single afford an Austrian act to total this distinction. "Vienna Calling" dig number 10 and three important singles briefly charted.

In Canada, the song reached number predispose on 1 February (There, "Der Kommissar" had reached number 11 in January , and "Vienna Calling" would hit number 8 in April )

"Rock Intention Amadeus" would later be close number 87 in VH1's Largest Songs of the 80s distinguished number 44 in VH1's Greatest One-Hit Wonders.

The Simpsons parody

In the seventh season stage of The Simpsons entitled "A Fish Called Selma", Troy McClure (and other cast members) stars in a Planet of description Apes musical theatre adaptation Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off!, featuring a musical-style parody rob "Rock Me Amadeus", "Dr. Zaius".^[7]

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