- His song "Rock Me Amadeus", about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was #1 on the Billboard 100 for four weeks, being the only German speaking song to reach to top the US charts to date (March 29, 1986).
- Mentioned in the rap-rock song "Mope" by Bloodhound Gang, along with personalities like Luciano Pavarotti, Tupac Shakur, The Notorious B.I.G., Tori Spelling, Bo Jackson and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- Died from severe injuries after a collision with a bus near Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic (6 February 1998).
- Being the only survivor of a triplet birth, he was 54 cm tall and weighed 4,95 kg.
- Dropped out of the Vienna Music Conservatory to become a "real" musician and moved to West Berlin (1977).
- His girlfriend Isabella, whom he married two years later, gave birth to a girl, Katharina Bianca, on 13 August 1986. In 1993, he learned that someone else was the child's father.
- Mentioned Kathleen Turner, Katharine Hepburn, Frank Zappa, Cindy Crawford and Tatjana Patitz in some of his songs.
- As his last hit "Out of the Dark" contains the line "Do I have to die to live?", rumors spread that he knew he was going to die (1998).
- Known for his excessive and expensive lifestyle, for example buying a penthouse in Vienna for his family, but never moved in.
- Classical music prodigy who switched to writing and singing rock music.
- Born at 1:15 p.m. CET.
- Son of Alois Hölzel, a locksmith, and his then wife Maria, managing director of a laundry, who split up in 1968 and divorced many years later.
- Grew up at Ziegelofengasse 26 in the 5th (Margareten) district of Vienna.
- Had 23 Top 40 songs in his native Austria, most of them also becoming hits in Germany.
- Received a Liftime Achievement Award at the ECHO Awards posthumously (1999).
- Is interred at Vienna's Central Cemetery.
- Pictured on an Austrian 80c postage stamp issued 19 February 2017, the 60th anniversary of his birth.
- At seventeen, he volunteered for eight months of military service with the Austrian army.
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