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"Rock Me Amadeus" is a song recorded by Austrian musician Falco for his third studio album, Falco 3 (1985). The single was made available for physical sale in 1985 in German-speaking Europe, through A&M. "Rock Me Amadeus" was written by Falco along with Dutch music producers Bolland & Bolland.
"Rock Me Amadeus" reached No. 1 on the Billboard charts in 1986, making Falco the only artist in history to score a number-one hit with a German language song in the United States. [3] [a] According to his estate, he has sold 20 million albums and 40 million singles, which makes him the best-selling Austrian singer of all time.
Following an Academy Award-winning film about Mozart, the Americanised mix of "Rock Me Amadeus" capitalised on and continued a resurgence of interest in the Viennese composer, and was an instant success in the US, spending three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and peaking at number four on the dance chart and number six on the R&B singles chart.
Songs are made available worldwide where possible, although regional differences exist due to licensing and censorship restrictions. [3] The success of the SingStore exceeded the expectations of the game's developers, [ 4 ] with over 2.2 million songs purchased from the online service as of August 2008.
All titles on the album were filmed for an approximately one-hour film contribution Falco – Heroes of Today by DoRo commissioned by ORF. After Falco's death a book was published that was named after the song found on the album, Hoch als nie. In addition, a best-of CD/DVD was released in 2007 with the same name (see Hoch wie nie).
The fast pop-rap song is accompanied by a flute motif and a bluesy, clean guitar. Some samples ("hello") are also used, which support the telephone theme. At the end the flute plays a solo. Falco enjoyed a limited international success with "Vienna Calling" in late 1985, following the worldwide hit of his previous single "Rock Me Amadeus". In ...
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In 1961 John Dowell sang his song "Wooden Heart" partly in German and made #1 in USA. "Wooden Heart" was based on the German folk song "Muss i' denn". Elvis was also #1 with his version of "Wooden Heart" in Great Britain, also with two parts in German! Of course, you could say "Rock me Amadues" was the first true German-language song which ...