| "Rock Me Amadeus" | ||||
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| Single by Falco | ||||
| from the album Falco 3 | ||||
| Language | German | |||
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| Released | May 1985 | |||
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| Length | 3:22 | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
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| Producer(s) | Bolland & Bolland | |||
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| "Rock Me Amadeus" on YouTube | ||||
"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. To date, the single is the only German language song to peak at number one on the Billboard Hot 100, which it did on 29 March 1986.[5]
It topped the singles charts on both sides of the Atlantic. It was Falco's only number one hit in both the United States and the United Kingdom, despite the artist's popularity in his native Austria and much of Europe.
- ^ "Neue Deutsche Welle NDW". Musik Himmel (in German). 19 August 2018. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
- ^ Breihan, Tom (30 November 2020). "The Number Ones: Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus". Stereogum. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
If anything, "Rock Me Amadeus" sounds like the kind of leftfield synthpop jam that couldnt've broken through a few years earlier.
- ^ Breihan, Tom (15 November 2022). "BTS - "Dynamite"". The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music. New York: Hachette Book Group. p. 294.
- ^ Petridis, Alexis (28 March 2024). "Sex, Mozart and chanting monks … the 20 best Euro-pop UK hits – ranked!". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
- ^ Sailer, Niklas (31 March 2016). "Falcos Welthit: Oh-oh-oh Amadeus" [Falcos worldhit: Oh-oh-oh Amadeus]. Spiegel Online (in German). Retrieved 25 June 2018.