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Falco
Given a baby grand piano for his fourth birthday, Hans Hölzel auditioned for the
Vienna Music Academy a year later and was told he had perfect pitch. In 1977
(aged 20) he joined the Vienna Music Conservatory but quit after one semester to
move to Berlin, where he joined a jazz-rock band, and by the time he returned to
Austria, he'd reinvented himself as Falco, reputedly in honour of an East German
ski-jumper. He played bass with punk band Drahdiwaberl and in disco group
Ganymed before finding fame in his own right with Der Kommissar, a hit all over
Europe, while UK band After The...
