When you’re young, you want the hits. Those songs that enliven you, connect you to pop culture and showcase some of the major players on the music scene who are shaping the future. But after you live ...

Forty years ago, on March 29, 1986, Austrian New Wave artist Falco made music history when his quirky, rapped synth-pop tune “Rock Me Amadeus” became the first-ever German-language song to top the ...

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 ...

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. Bolland & Bolland wrote the song after watching the Amadeus ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. There's a theme ...

View post: 42,000 Ordered to Evacuate as Human-Caused Wildfire Destroys Homes Near Reno "Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco topped US charts as a German-language synth-pop song in 1986. Falco called Mozart ...