The Spirit Never Dies

The Spirit Never Dies
Falco studio album
Publication (s)	4th December 2009
Label (s)	Starwatch Music , Warner Music Group
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Pop, rock, rap
Title (number)	12
running time	53:00 min.
chronology Symphonic (2008) The Spirit Never Dies Falco60 (2017)

The Spirit Never Dies ( German  The Spirit Never Dies ) is the tenth studio album by Falco , released in December 2009 and on the unreleased songs of the Viennese Blood -time are included.

Emergence

In November 2008, after a water damage in the cellar archive of a recording studio in Mörfelden-Walldorf near Frankfurt, where Falco's producers Gunther Mende and Candy de Rouge had worked , the current tenant came across various recordings from 1987. An examination of the multi-track tapes found it under Among other things, a previously unknown song by Falco was discovered, which was classified as the "official" third part of the Jeanny series. This was released under the title The Spirit Never Dies - Jeanny Final together with the album The Spirit Never Dies in December 2009. According to statements by Falco's former manager Horst Bork, the new material on the album was recorded for a fifth studio album by Falco, but was rejected by the record company Teldec. According to Mende, the main reason was that Falco put more emphasis on vocals on these recordings, while the record company demanded the well-known spoken singing. That is why they turned to the Dutch producers Bolland & Bolland again to complete the Wiener Blut LP .

content

According to the liner notes in the album's booklet, the title song The Spirit Never Dies (Jeanny Final) , written and composed in 1987 by Gunther Mende and Alexander C. De Rouge, should complete the Jeanny trilogy . The tracks Poison and Que pasa hombre were already released in 1999 in other versions on the album Verdammt wir Leben noch by Falco's former bandleader Thomas Rabitsch. Jeanny Part I , which was released on Falco 3 , and Jeanny Part II , which was released on Emotional , are included in the original version of the album. Except for Jeanny 1 & 2 , the recordings were actually made for the fifth Falco album, which was originally supposed to be called “Aya” (these are the last three letters of the song title “Himalaya”), and thus complement the four Mende- / De released in 1988 -Rouge productions from the LP Wiener Blut . This release made it possible to reconstruct the content and concept of the fifth Falco album, originally planned in 1987, but never released.

Track list

1. Return to Forever (2:08) - Intro without Falco involvement, newly produced in 2009
2. Nuevo Africano (4:56) - recorded in 1987, slightly edited in 2009
3. Jeanny , Part 1 (5:54) - identical to the version from the1985album Falco 3
4. Coming Home (Jeanny Part 2, One year later) (5:31) - identical to the version from the 1986 album Emotional
5. The Spirit Never Dies (Jeanny Final) (4:57) - recorded in 1987, heavily revised in 2009
6. Qué Pasa Hombre (4:41) - recorded in 1987, slightly edited in 2009
7. Poison (4:57) - recorded in 1987, slightly edited in 2009
8. Sweet Symphony (4:24) - song consisting largely of samples, a compilation of other Falco songs from 1987 ( Walls of Silence , Poison , Que Pasa Hombre and The Sprit Never Dies ) with a few unreleased song parts / remnants
9. Kissing in the Kremlin (3:53) - recorded in 1987, slightly edited in 2009
10. Dada Love (4:27) - cut from text fragments from a previously unreleased song from 1997 by a German-British producer
11. The Spirit Never Dies (Jeanny Final) The Special Mix (5:00) - recorded in 1987, heavily revised in 2009
12. Forever (2:18) - Outro without Falco participation, newly produced in 2009

Singles and chart successes

The song The Spirit Never Dies premiered on November 16, 2009 on Hitradio Ö3.

album

year	title	Top position
		AT	DE	CH
2009	The Spirit Never Dies	1	3	33

Singles

year	title	Top position
		AT	DE	CH
2009	The Spirit Never Dies (Jeanny Final)	3	-	-
2010	Kissing in the Kremlin	-	-	-

Individual evidence

1. ↑ New album - Chaostage with Falco
2. ↑ http://www.bild.de/BILD/unterhaltung/musik/2009/11/15/falco/dritter-teil-von-jeanny-aufgetaucht.html
3. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) sueddeutsche.de
4. ↑ Horst Bork, Falco. The truth, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89602-921-8 , p. 187 ff., P. 191
5. ↑ Falco's setbacks |. In: www.falco.at. Retrieved August 17, 2016 . 
6. ↑ The Spirit Never Dies in the Austrian charts
7. ↑ Falco in the German album charts
8. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from June 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
9. ↑ The Spirit Never Dies in the Austrian charts
10. ↑ Falco in the German album charts
11. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from June 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive )