I can’t be the only person who has never heard of this group.
watch it once on You Tube, with the gold headdress and it will be in your brain for evaaaaaah!!!
like a billion views.
“Farian also went on to found the duo Milli Vanilli, who were involved in a lip-synching controversy.”
“who were involved”? Farian was the one behind the lip-syncing and mandated it with Boney M first and later with Milli Vanelli. The artists weren’t allowed to sing. They were not on the records and not even capable of really doing those songs well. Farian just liked their looks.
Why? Farian used himself and studio singers to sing and play the instruments for those tracks. Farian himself was the voice behind Boney M. Farian also hired studio musicians and singers for both bands. Boney M and Milli Vanelli only served as the performing face. Farian manufactured an image that brought in many millions mainly to Farian.
Much worse than the Monkees who did tour and perform.
I still have “Rivers of Babylon” on 45 rpm from 1978. A nice tune with lyrics based on Psalm 137.
“Let the words of our mouth and the meditation of our heart
Be acceptable in Thy sight here tonight.”
Farian was also the driving talent behind a short-lived group named Far Corporation. They recorded the best studio cover of Led Zeppelin’s classic Stairway to Heaven yet produced. The extended version is classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KO066OFUuNQ
Stunned that our American cousins haven’t heard of Boney M.
Gotta Go Home was sampled a lot including a fairly big hit: Duck Sauce’s Barbra Streisand...
I can’t believe you won’t recognise it instantly.
:https://youtu.be/8Je2hBEoPvA?si=-BN3Mv2GMe2NwykE