Slopfest #60 · 1986 · Vienna
Amadeus, Amadeus, Amadeus
A Viennese pop star topped the US charts by repeating one name. The purest hook ever written.
Museum status: In storage: Basement B, next to the Christmas decorations.
- Venue
- Stephansplatz, around the cathedral
- Attendance
- 1,000,000
- Guest of honour
- Falco (led the one-word sing-along for the first four hours)
- Also spotted
- Modern Talking on a sticker on the cash box, Dieter Bohlen half peeled off
- Fun fact
- 1 word, 4 hours 11 minutes, 1 armadillo
What happened
The committee held a sing-along of a single word for as long as possible. Falco led the first four hours personally. The choir drifted from 'Amadeus' to 'Armadillo' around hour three and nobody corrected it. Today roughly a million Austrians remember being there, which the committee has decided to believe.
“Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.”
Elsewhere in 1986
Falco's 'Rock Me Amadeus' reaches No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100, the first German-language song to do so.
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