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bass player, but also arrogant and with a "very high opinion of himself". Markus Spiegel, the manager who discovered Falco, admitted that the pop star was "an extremely difficult artist" and known womanizer. Peter Vieweger, a guitarist who knew Falco before his success and continued to play in Falco's touring band and on his albums, remembers Falco as being "scared he would fail or be unmasked and not be as good as people thought he was".
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was released in Austria on 7 February 2008, ten years and one day after Hölzel's death. Written and directed by Thomas Roth, the movie features musician Manuel Rubey as adult Falco. The end credits include the line "With love, Ferdi & Rob", his frequent collaborators the Bollands. This title also
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After the success of "Rock Me Amadeus", there were talks of crossing over more permanently into the U.S. by working with American producers and collaborating with other American artists. These possibilities fell through, in part, due to Falco's personal problems. At this point in his career, he was
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Falco has been described by those who knew him as having a complex personality. He has been called ambitious, eccentric, caring, egotistical and deeply insecure. Thomas Rabitsch, a keyboardist who met Falco when the aspiring pop star was only 17 years old, said he was a quiet young man and precise
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proved otherwise when she was seven years old. After this, Katharina's relationship with him became strained. Though they kept in contact, she took her mother's surname and claimed that she was written out of his will. She was 12 years old when he died. She did not reconcile with Falco's mother,
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only charted in Austria where it went to number one. Outside of Austria and Spain, the title track and main single "Junge Roemer" failed to repeat the success of "Der Kommissar". As a reaction, Falco began to experiment with English lyrics in an effort to broaden his appeal. He parted ways with
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during the third month and Falco, who was conceived via a separate ovum, survived. Falco mused that "three souls in one chest sounds a little over-dramatic, but I do sense them sometimes. In my moodiness. I'll be really up and then right after I'll be really down."
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in 1986, making Falco the only artist in history to score a number-one hit with a German language song in the United States. 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.
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recalls that Falco was often so severely intoxicated that the writing process revolved around his "inability to be coherent, to even stand for a long time". Despite pleas from his manager and collaborators to get help, Falco stubbornly refused.
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was released in 1984. Even though the music video for the single "Hoch wie nie" ("Higher Than Ever") was aired on prime time TV in Austria, it failed to ignite interest internationally.
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Hölzel 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 child's
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album charts. Unusually for a white act, especially one from mainland Europe, "Rock Me Amadeus" reached number six in the Billboard Top R&B Singles Chart, and
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under the name The Bolland Project feat. Alida. The title track featured samples of Falco's music; the other tracks were "We Say Goodbye" and "So Lonely".
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Also notable was his very early, first notable, creation of a successful non-English language rap music song ("Der Kommissar"), recorded in December 1981.
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Through the 1980s and into the '90s, he became dependent on alcohol and cocaine. When under the influence he was unreliable at best and abusive at worst.
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Verein fĂŒr Kultur, Umweltschutz und Ortsverschönerung (Bad Tatzmannsdorf Association for culture, environmental protection and town beautification)
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While Falco was in a relationship with Isabella Vitkovic, she gave birth to a girl, Katharina, in 1986. The couple married in 1988, but it was a
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Maria Hölzel, until a few years before Hölzel's death at the age of 87 in April 2014. Katharina subsequently published a memoir in 2008 called
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offering to sign Falco in 1981. Ironically, it was at a concert for drug prevention and "Ganz Wien" has a line proclaiming "All Vienna is on
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in the Dominican Republic. At the time of his death he was planning a comeback, which was successful with the posthumously released album
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In May 1979, he recorded demos and early sketches in a recording studio, from which a single was released posthumously 28 years later.
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was released posthumously on 27 February 1998 in Europe and worldwide in March. It charted at number one in Austria for 21 weeks.
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Charts in 1986. A double A-side 12" single featuring remixes of those two hits peaked at No. 4 on the US Dance/Disco charts.
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After 1986, there were a number of European hits, but Falco was rarely heard in the US and the UK. In 1987, Falco went on the
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recorded a non-single version of the song with new English lyrics under the title "Deep in the Dark" on her album
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for his fourth birthday; a year later, his birthday gift was a record player which he used to play music by
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In late 1970s Vienna, he became part of the Viennese nightlife, which included not just music but also
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The restaurant Marchfelderhof in a Vienna suburb maintains a permanent reserved table for Hölzel.
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Once Falco was signed as a solo artist, he continued composing his own music and hired songwriter
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and the reinterpretation by Suzy Andrews, both in 1982 and 1983, respectively—Falco's song "
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in a number of bands under various pseudonyms, including "John Hudson" and "John DiFalco".
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Der KĂŒnstlername 'Falco' ist ĂŒbrigens zurĂŒckzufĂŒhren auf den Skispringer Falko Weißpflog.
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Though "Der Kommissar" failed to break through in the UK and US, the British rock band
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Hölzel died of severe injuries received on 6 February 1998, at age 40, when his
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From 1977 to early 1979, Hans Hölzel was the bassist of Austrian rock group the
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Falco and Ponger returned to the studio in 1983 to record Falco's second album
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For comparison: it took until 1995 for a rap track in Dutch ("Spraakwater" by
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Johann Hölzel was born on 19 February 1957 to Maria (née Saurer), from
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His distinct style, coupled with his singing performance of the song "
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with new English lyrics. This version charted at number five on the
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Falco - Verdammt, wir leben noch! (Falco: Damn, We're Still Alive!)
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Falco - Verdammt, wir leben noch! (Falco: Damn, We're Still Alive!)
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world tour ending in Japan. In the same year he sang a duet with
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private school; four years later, at age ten, he switched to the
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Falco: die Wahrheit: wie es wirklich war-- sein Manager erzÀhlt
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also reached No. 1 in January 1961 but with the instrumental "
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lends its name to a posthumously released album by Falco,
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For the post-hardcore musician also known as Falco, see
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collided with a bus on the road linking the towns of
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Ponger and chose a new production team: the brothers
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