Michael Wendler didn't invent the pop hit. But he put the crown on it. And every year at his home concert in Oberhausen, he proves anew that the Wendler still rightly bears the title "King of pop hits ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

At home in Cape Coral, Michael Wendler looks like just another German transplant — although one with a sharp sense of style and an Adam Levine haircut. But every once in a while, something happens to ...