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Following an Academy Award-winning movie about Mozart, the Americanized mix of "Rock Me Amadeus" capitalized on and continued a resurgence of interest in the Viennese composer, and was an instant hit in the U.S., spending three weeks at number one on the Hot 100 and peaking at number four on the dance charts and number six on the R&B singles charts. It has several major differences from the non-US original: a spoken English prose track narrating a brief chronology of Mozart's life, attempting a rap-meets-classical style; an English vocal musical accompaniment track; and only the English-compatible phrases, words, and sounds clipped from the complete (German) main vocal track. The non-US version of the Falco 3 album and the video feature the complete (German) main vocal track with lyrics portraying Mozart as both popular and radical.
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