
Billboard #1 Hits: #593: ‘Rock Me Amadeus’- Falco. March 29, 1986. #1 for 3 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.
- Single: ‘Rock Me Amadeus’- Falco
- Record Company- A&M
- Genre: Pop
- Written by Falco, Rob Bolland and Ferdi Bolland
- Time: 3:21
- B-side:’Urban Tropical’
- Album-Falco 3
- Grade: A-
- Peaked at #1 3 weeks in Billboard Hot 100.#1 in UK Singles Chart, #1 in Austria, Canada, West Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain and Sweden.
The only German language single to hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Pop chart. Hans Holzel aka Falco was born in Austria. He had one other Hot 100 hit in the US #18 ‘Vienna Calling” also in 1986. Falco died in a car crash in 1998 at the age of 40.
There are two versions of this song: