Boney M. was a Euro-Caribbean vocal group created by German record producer Frank Farian. Originally based in West Germany, the four original members of the group’s official line-up were Liz Mitchell, Marcia Barrett, Maizie Williams and Bobby Farrell. The group has sold around 80 million records worldwide.
About Boney M. in brief
Boney M. was a Euro-Caribbean vocal group created by German record producer Frank Farian. Originally based in West Germany, the four original members of the group’s official line-up were Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett from Jamaica, Maizie Williams from Montserrat and Bobby Farrell, a performing artist 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. The band has sold around 80 million records worldwide and is known for international hits such as \”Daddy Cool\”, \”Ma Baker\”, \”Sunny\”, \”Rasputin” and \”Mary’s Boy Child – Oh My Lord” The group’s biggest year was 1978 when they released a double-sided single, BabylonBrown Girl in, which was a hit all over Europe as well as becoming one of the biggest selling singles of all time in the UK. It also became their most successful single in the United States, peaking at No 30 on the U.S. pop singles chart. Following this came their biggest-selling album, Night to Venus, which spawned further hit singles with \”Rivers of Babylon” and “Painter Man” The group have released a new album, Boney M., which is due to be released later this year. It is expected to be the most successful album of the decade, with the group expected to make a profit of up to $1.5 million.
The album will be released on September 25, 2014. The first single from the album, “Rivers Of Babylon”, will be the first single to be sold in the US since the Beatles’ “I Will Always Love You” was released in 1969. The second single, “I Can’t Go for That,” will be available on the album in November 2014. It will be followed by the single “I’ll Be There for You” in December 2014, which will be sold on the same day as the second single “Baby Do You Wanna Bump”, which was released on the second album “Take the Heat off Me” The third and final single will be “Sunny”, which is a cover of a song by the British band The Kinks. The fourth and final hit will be a version of the song “I Don’t Wanna Go For That” by the group, which has been released as a single in September 2015. The last single is “I’m A Man, I’m A Woman, I Don’t Want To Go for that” which was the last single released by the band before the release of their album “Love for Sale” in 1977. The single was a No. 1 hit in the Netherlands and Belgium. It was also a hit in Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Spain, France and Austria. In 1977, the group released their second album, Love for Sale, which contained the hits ‘Ma Baker’ and ‘Belfast’ The group embarked on their first major concert tours with a live band.
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