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Studios
- Stereo West Studio, Vienna ( Austria )
- Arco Studios, Munich ( Germany )
Solitary confinement is the first studio album by the Austrian musician Falco. It was published in 1982, in addition to Austria and the Federal Republic in the USA, Canada, Italy, Spain, Japan and Finland.
- 2.1 Promo Singles
- 5.1 album
- 5.2 Singles
Formation
1980 got Falco, who was then still playing in the band Drahdiwaberl, Markus mirror a contract for three solo albums. Since Falco Ganz Wien song was promoted at the Drahdiwaberl concerts a great success, he wanted to take it as a first single. After the radio boycott of Austrian broadcasting of this recording, he took the title in an English version That scene on and published the beginning of 1981, the single was quite successful in Austria and made it to number 11 in the Ö3 Hit Parade, a then-popular radio show. ; abroad, however, it remained unnoticed.
Production
In the spring of 1981, Falco began working with producer Robert Ponger who already had a melody without lyrics. This was originally intended for Reinhold Bilgeri, but she refused. Falco was, however, of the tune so much that he took her. Within three days he wrote a matching text to it and took the piece to the Commissioner. At this time, nor was a second title, heroes of today. Although Falco wanted to release this as a single number ( with the Commissioner as a B- side), he had to surrender the person in charge of his record company, which preferred the opposite arrangement, as the Commissioner in their opinion, had more potential.
Success
In November 1981, the Single Commissioner in Austria was published and shortly thereafter reached # 1 on the charts. Two months later, this was achieved also in Germany and France and many other European countries. In Canada, the single reached gold status. In the U.S. Billboard charts the title came in at number 72 in the disco charts at number 1 Falco stayed half a year in America to promote the album, he also abroad had so very great success. Also in Guatemala led the song to the hit parade. The Commissioner was - remixed versions counting - sold about seven million copies worldwide. Following this great success Falco went about a year on tour that reached the world from Mexico to Asia. In the Canadian album charts, the LP was represented for 20 weeks and went there to position 31 In Italy, the album reached place 21 in the U.S., it came down to the 64th rank in the U.S. Billboard charts. In the summer of 1982, the publication of the machine was on fire; the single was released in Austria, Norway and Germany in the Top 10 and confirmed the success.
Promo Singles
Falco also introduced in 1982 still two promo singles out for his album. The song appeared on the run in the U.S. and France under the English title On the Run and reached number 9 in the U.S. Hot Play charts. The second promotional single was too much heat and was published in Germany.
25th Anniversary Edition
To mark the 25th anniversary of the publication of Falco's first album in solitary confinement in June 1982 published on 15 June 2007, a 25th Anniversary Edition in vinyl optics, digital regemastert by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Studios the ( Hollywood). The limited edition also contains a second CD with the Anniversary Mix 2007 by No more school and That Scene, the rare English version of Ganz Wien as well as a 36 - minute interview by Norbert Ivanek with Johann Hölzel from the year 1993. Rose, republication Album to number 22 in the Ö3 charts.