Where's the Orchestra? My Story

After 36 years in consideration and the making, the long-awaited sequel to Top Gun will be released in May of 2022. Right in time for Top Gun Maverick hitting the box offices, beloved composer Harold Faltermeyer revisits his life, telling us how his music became the soundtrack of the 80’s.

In the mid 80’ Harold Faltermeyer reached worldwide fame with the epic theme from Beverly Hills Cop so called Axel F. It hit the top ten charts worldwide and started a new way of electronic scoring for Hollywood movies. He produced and composed for legends like Donna Summer, The Pet Shop Boys, Cheap Trick and Patti LaBelle. His songs Hot Stuff and Top Gun Anthem became milestones of pop music. His deep love for his home country was the main reason to stay steady like a rock in this world of sex, drugs & rock ‘n’ roll.

Harold Faltermeyer paints a colorful life between two worlds which cannot be more contrary.

He travelled from the glamorous world of Tinseltown to the down to earth Bavaria and it’s beautiful mountains. In Hollywood he writes hits, in Bavaria he is a passionate chef, brews his own beer, produces his Falty-Weißwurscht, constructs alpine cabins and paints Pop-Art red stags. The producer and composer portrays picturesque and storyful his way to the top of the music world, the meaning of homeland and roots and why he is never bored!