MUSIC VIDEO: Boney M - Back to the70s Complilation Mix. Track List: (Continuous Mix).. 01. Daddy Cool 00:00 02. Rivers Of Babylon 03:27 03. Sunny 07:40 04. Belfast 11:30 05. Gotta Go Home (Long Version) 14:58 06. Brown Girl In The Ring 20:09 07. No Woman, No Cry 25:42 08. Ma Baker 29:17 09. El Lute 33:03 10. Bonus: Boney M. Mega Mix 38:32 BIOGRAPHY (Detailed) Boney M was created by German record producer Frank Farian. Originally based in Germany, the four original members of the groups official line-up were Jamaican-born singers Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett, Maizie Williams from Montserrat and Bobby Farrell from Aruba. The group was formed in 1976 and achieved popularity during the disco era of the late 1970s. Since the 1980s, various line-ups of the band have performed with different personnel. German singer-songwriter Frank Farian (real name Franz Reuther)recorded the dance track Baby Do You Wanna Bump in December 1974. Farian sang the repeated line Do you do you wanna bump? in a deep voice (entirely studio created) as well as performing the high falsetto chorus. When the record was released as a single, it was credited to Boney M., a pseudonym Farian had created for himself after watching the Australian detective show Boney. I turned on the TV one day and it was the end of a detective series. I just caught the credits and it said Boney. Nice name, I thought – Boney, Boney, Boney... Boney M. Boney, Boney, Boney M. Nice sound. Simple.... After a slow start, the song became a hit in the Netherlands and Belgium. It was then that Farian decided to hire performers to front the group for TV performances. The Katja Wolfe booking agency found model-turned-singer Maizie Williams (originally from Montserrat) and her Jamaican singer friend Sheyla Bonnick for him, along with a dancer known only as Mike for the first gigs. Also during 1975, a girl named Nathalie joined but was soon replaced by Jamaica-born Claudja Barry. Then Bonnick and Mike left, and Maizie Williams brought in Bobby Farrell, a male exotic dancer from Aruba. Singer Marcia Barrett (also from Jamaica) joined the group, which then went through another change in line-up when Claudja Barry left in February 1976 to pursue a solo career as a disco singer. Finally Liz Mitchell, former member of the Les Humphries Singers, stepped in. The line-up was finalised with Liz Mitchell, Maizie Williams, Marcia Barrett, and Bobby Farrell. In 1980, Boney M. released a greatest hits album, The Magic of Boney M. - 20 Golden Hits, which also contained two new songs, My Friend Jack and I See a Boat on the River. It made the No. 1 spot in the UK, reaching Gold status within six weeks of release, though it was their last big-selling album in the UK. 1981,Bobby Farrell was fired from the group due to his unreliability. Reggie Tsiboe was hired to replace Farrell as the new male member of Boney M. By 1985, Farian clearly began losing interest in the group, and their final and eighth studio album Eye Dance was widely regarded as uninspired and disappointing. After celebrating Boney M.s 10-year anniversary in early 1986, the group officially disbanded after the release of the commercially unsuccessful single Young, Free and Single. In October 1988, the classic Boney M. line-up reunited without producer Frank Farian for the album Greatest Hits of All Times - Remix 88 but tensions ran high between the members, and Liz Mitchell left in the spring of 1989 to be replaced by Madeleine Davis. While Mitchell promoted her solo album, the group recorded the single Everybody Wants to Dance Like Josephine Baker, without Farians knowledge or approval. Threatened with legal action by the producer over the use of the Boney M. name, the single was subsequently withdrawn and Farian issued Stories with his own new Boney M. line-up featuring Liz Mitchell, Reggie Tsiboe and two new members, Sharon Stevens and Patty Onoyewenjo. 2010. Bobby Farrell died at the age of 61 from heart failure on 30 December 2010. His agent said Farrell was complaining of breathing problems after performing with his band the evening before. Farrell lived in Amsterdam until his death. The singer was found dead in a hotel room in Saint Petersburg, Russia, where he had been performing. youtu.be/kbgCLIxzTUg
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