Falco has been described by those who knew him as having a complex personality.

He has been called ambitious, eccentric, caring, egotistical and deeply insecure.

Through the 1980’s and into the 1990’s, Falco became dependent on alcohol and cocaine.

When under the influence he was unreliable at best and abusive at worst.

Falco and Isabella Vitkovic married in 1988, but it was a love-hate relationship.

Falco died of severe injuries received on 6th February 1998, 13 days before his 41st birthday.

His Mitsubishi Pajero collided with a bus on the road linking the towns of Villa Montellano and Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic.

It was determined that Falco had been under the influence of alcohol and cocaine.

Falco‘s mother had been pregnant with triplets. As it was a dizygotic pregnancy, she miscarried the identical twins during the third month and Falco, who was conceived via a separate ovum, survived.

In late 1970’s Vienna, he became part of the Viennese nightlife, which included not just music but also striptease, performance art and a general atmosphere of celebrating chaos.

Falco recorded Rock Me Amadeus inspired in part by the Oscar-winning film Amadeus, and the song became a worldwide hit in 1986.

Jeanny, the third release from the album Falco 3, brought Falco back again to the top of the charts across Europe.

Highly controversial when it was released, the story of Jeanny was told from the point of view of a possible rapist and murderer. Several feminist associations called for a boycott of the song.