Jeanny - The Spirit Never Dies (Jeanny Final)

The Spirit Never Dies (Jeanny Final)

Although marketed as the third part of the Jeanny Trilogy there is no evidence that this song was ever to be planned as the final part. It seems that Horst Bork (Falco's Ex-Manager) had the idea to sell this song, which was originally recorded in 1988 for the "Wiener Blut" Album. There is no hint in the lyrics that this should have anything to do with the Jeanny Saga and therefore the title "Jeanny Final" can be considered a clever marketing gag.

The album "The Spirit Never Dies" was released posthumously in 2009 being a compilation of unpublished songs. The title track "The Spirit Never Dies (Jeanny Final)" was also released as a single and it scored in the top ten in Austria and Germany. The track was found by chance after a water-pipe burst in the archives of the recording studio Mörfelden-Walldorf that was used by Falco's producer Gunther Mende in 1987. Closing the archive the tapes were sent to Mende who had a look at the material which had originally been rejected by Falco's record company Teldec - this was explained by Horst Bork in an interview mentioning that Falco had tried to use a different style of music at the time that the company did not want to support. After digital remastering of the tape the song was edited and published as the official third part of the Jeanny trilogy.

The melancholic song is fully melodic without any spoken word poetry that had been characteristic for Falco's earlier songs. The video assembles cut scenes from all the earlier of Falco's music videos along with showing Falco's last girl friend Caroline Perron portraying the female voice at the end.