Talk:Rock Me Amadeus

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[edit] Inspiration?

Does anyone know if the song inspired or influenced Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner's story Mozart in Mirrorshades? The story deals with time travel, with companies from a modern Earth plundering a number of "quantum" past realities for natural resources and other valuables. In the story, time travel to the past splits off a separate universe, which changes from that point on but doesn't affect the travelers' home history. People in the past times which are being used often behave like poor locals around an economic project in a developing country, and the story examines the effect of all this - instant partial modernization, massive social change, etc. Anyway, in the story, a teenage Mozart wears mirrored sunglasses and a black leather jacket, and rides a motorcycle. The story was published in Omni in September 1985, and reprinted in Sterling's cyberpunk anthology Mirrorshades. Epimetreus 15:01, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

I believe that Falco made this song in refernce to the 1980's movie Amadeus Nog64