The Spirit Never Dies

The Spirit Never Dies
The Spirit Never Dies
Studio album by Falco
Released	December 4, 2009
Genre	Pop; rock;
Label	Warner
Producer	Gunther Mende; Alexander C. De Rouge;
Falco chronology
Singles from The Spirit Never Dies
	"The Spirit Never Dies (Jeanny Final)"; Released: 2009; "Kissing in the Kremlin"; Released: 2010;

The Spirit Never Dies is a 2009 rock album by Falco. The album features eight new songs as well as the final song in the Jeanny Trilogy titled "The Spirit Never Dies".

Background

The album was released posthumously in 2009 as a compilation of unpublished Falco songs. The title track, "The Spirit Never Dies (Jeanny Final)", was also released as a single and reached the top ten in Austria. The track was found by chance after a water-pipe burst in the archives of the recording studio Mörfelden-Walldorf that was used by Falco's producer Gunther Mende in 1987. After the closing of the archives, the tapes were sent to Mende personally, who then had a look at the material, all of which had originally been rejected by Falco's recording label Teldec; this was explained by Horst Bork in an interview mentioning that Falco had tried to use a different style of music at the time that the label did not want to support.^[1]

After digital remastering of the tape, and inclusion of New Zealand vocalist Rietta Austin, the song was edited and published under the claim that it was the official third part of the Jeanny Trilogy by the album's producers Gunther Mende and Alexander C. De Rouge.^[2]^[3]^[1]^[4]

Track listing

"Return to Forever" – 2:08
"Nuevo Afrikano" – 4:57
"Jeanny, Part 1" – 5:54
"Coming Home (Jeanny, Part 2: Ein Jahr danach)" – 5:31
"The Spirit Never Dies (Jeanny Final)" – 4:56
"Qué Pasa Hombre" (original version) – 4:41
"Poison" (original version) – 4:58
"Sweet Symphony" – 4:25
"Kissing in the Kremlin" – 3:53
"Dada Love" – 4:28
"The Spirit Never Dies (Jeanny Final)" (The Special mix) – 5:01
"Forever" – 2:18

Charts

The album was a hit in the Austrian and German music charts.^[5]^[6]^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b Sueddeutsche.de
^ New Album - Chaos Days with Falco
^ Bild.de
^ Horst Bork, Falco. The Truth, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89602-921-8, S. 187 ff., P 191
^ Austriancharts.at
^ germancharts.com
^ Falco-alive.ch Archived 2008-06-25 at the Wayback Machine

[S-1] Sueddeutsche.de

[2] New Album - Chaos Days with Falco

[3] Bild.de

[4] Horst Bork, Falco. The Truth, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89602-921-8, S. 187 ff., P 191

[5] Austriancharts.at

[6] rmancharts.com

[7] Falco-alive.ch Archived 2008-06-25 at the Wayback Machine

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Discography
Studio albums	Einzelhaft Junge Roemer Falco 3 Emotional Wiener Blut Data de Groove Nachtflug Out of the Dark (Into the Light) Verdammt wir leben noch The Spirit Never Dies
Live albums	Symphonic
Compilations	Hoch wie nie
Singles	"That Scene (Ganz Wien)" "Der Kommissar" "Maschine brennt" "On the Run (Auf der Flucht)" "Junge Roemer" "Rock Me Amadeus" "Vienna Calling" "Jeanny" "The Sound of Musik" "Coming Home (Jeanny Part 2)" "Wiener Blut" "Do It Again" "Data de Groove" "Titanic" "Dance Mephisto" "Mutter, der Mann mit dem Koks ist da" (as T»MA) "Naked" (as Falco feat. T»MB) "Out of the Dark" "Egoist" "Push! Push!" "Verdammt wir leben noch" "The Spirit Never Dies (Jeanny Final)"