It may sound like an April Fools' joke, but on April 1, 1986, a synth-pop song about Mozart complete with German rap verses was No. 1 in the U.S.: "Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco. Austrian singer Falco was ...

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It was Mozart-mania for a while there in the mid-80s. The film Amadeus arrived in 1984 and served up prime Oscar bait. And then there was “Rock Me Amadeus”, which came along a year later and became a ...

Falco was already a big star in Europe following the success of his second single, 1981's "Der Kommissar," when producer brothers Rob Bolland and Ferdi Bolland sent him a collection of unfinished ...

If you weren't around in the mid-80s, it might be difficult to understand what a huge celebrity Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was at the time. Sure, he'd been dead for almost 200 years at that point, but ...