Updated with the teaser and trailer now loaded into the Twitch Player
I'm having a hard time putting an exact timeline on this but sometime late in my elementary school days, I would have been twelve or thirteen, I remember packing up with my family and heading to Germany to visit with my mother's family there. Her parents emigrated to Canada when she was six, but most of their relatives stayed in the German south, and so we went to stay with one of her cousins who had kids about the same age as my sister and I and were eager to teach us about German pop culture in exchange for being taught to swear in English. And the biggest thing going BY FAR was pop singer Falco. We'd never heard of the guy. Rock Me Amadeus would hit the next year in North America, which would make him a huge pop novelty act for a bit, but in Germany he'd already arrived and this guy was HUGE.
And now his life is on screen, fancy jackets and all. Pop music in the eighties was a strange place in general, Euro-pop music in the eighties even more so. Yes, please. You can check the teaser and trailer in the Twitch Player below the break.
believe it or not, i once could recite the whole German rap on Rock Me Amadeus.
Falco was the bomb back in the day. You didn't go to a school dance without him coming through the speakers at some point. Now days he's regularly played as part of the 80's nostalgia.
My first album was Falco 3
was that Grace Jones?