Rock Me Amadeus

I don't think anyone can argue that this the greatest English/German hybrid rock/rap song about an Austrian composer ever written in the '80s.

Brilliant song. Made me look at Mozart in a completely different light, I used to think of him as a young chap who could play the piano well and wrote some of the worlds best music.

The lyrics (when translated into English) are perceiving him as a Radical reformer of music at that time, and was extreemly popular, in the same way that many Punk rockers are nowadays.

Btw, I had the problem with 'Skirt me Amadeus' as well lol

Great song, biiiig thumbs up!

this song fucking rules...Falco may hav tempted fate by singing the line "because he lived so fast he had to die so young" b/c he died at only 40...

I agree wtih it being about how fame killed mozart at a young age (35) sometimes I hate being a music geek, it makes you know dumb stuff like how old mozart was when he died

I suppose you might be right...

wow...i speak german... and when i translated this song... it read "skirt me amadaeus" ... and i was all "wtf does that mean... and it finally took me awhile before i realized that the lyrics read "rock me amedeus" and ROCK = SKIRT in german! wow, my freind and i got a good chuckle out of that one...

btw.. Beth needs to fall into a ditch and never get out for no apparent reason... (nicest way to put it)

Great song. Falco has only one better song: Der Kommissar. Perhaps I'll post the lyrics soon. Austrian rap. Really cool.

Obviously it's about Mozart and the fact that his own fame killed him (and the alcohol, of course).

I don't know German, but I like this song.

ROCK = SKIRT in german!

well thats true but in that case ROCK comes from ROCK-Music and therefore if he writes Rock me Amadeus.. he means, as i guess someting like push me,give it too me, s.th like that.

bytheway Falco is s.th like a "hero" in vienna( i am born there)

that's because he was a great person, Fabius. Grüße aus Wien :)