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Three beautiful girls in dazzling outfits, whilst exhibitionist Kelly Rahman, parades his bare chest, rev up the audience ready to relive old times. DADDY COOL, RIVERS OF BABYLON, RASPUTIN, MA BAKER and many more. The music contains elements of gospel, calypso and nursery rhyme. It is this mixture that makes Boney M so enjoyable. Over the years Boney M have accumulated 42 golden, 50 platinum and 50 silver discs. They have sold more than 150 million records worldwide.
The MEGAMIX - CD achieved Top 10 in the UK, Holland, Belgium and Finland. New remix of BROWN GIRL IN THE RING achieved Top 15 in the UK, Belgium, Holland, France and Scandinavia.
Here are some career facts of the group.
1976 The breakthrough of Boney M. DADDY COOL and the album called TAKE THE HEAT OFF ME turned out to be international chart breakers. Siler, gold and platinum records began to flow in a never ending stream. Boney M is the most successful group in Germany. German televisions’s “Musikladen” directed by Mike Leckebujsch, featured
the single DADDY COOL. In Germany and Holland sales topped over 1000.000 copies a week after this appearance.
1977 : First successful tour in West Germany. The second album; a row of hits. RIVERS OF BABYLON – all time bestseller in Switzerland, Austria, Holland , 2 million plus in England, 1 million plus in France, 2 million plus in Germany etc… etc…
1978 album NIGHTFLIGHT TO VENUS broke new records. Before its release in Germany 400.000 copies were ordered by distributors. This meant gold even before it was for sale. Second tour in Germany was sold out in every city. In December WEA-London telexed that MARYS BOY CHILD had sold 2,5 million copies. The song has been added to England’s Guiness Book of Records as one of the twenty most successful singles in the history of the British record business. A special album was published for the USSR. The Russians ordered 300,000 copies within a few days. On 9th December Boney M landed in Moscow with their band “Black Beautiful Circus”. More than 100,000 people tried to get a ticket to see Boney M on stage. The black market price was 170 Rubles (the average income of a labourer in the USSR. Boney M was the first pop group to receive hard cash instead of trade goods.
1979 February, third tour in Germany.
March: Promotion tour in USA. In one week more than 100 interviews (radio and magazines) and 10 TV shows in New York and Los Angeles.
April: Scandinavian tour.
May: Far East and Japan tour.
June: TV – promotion tour in South America. More than 40 TV shows.
August: Poland tour. Audience in Poland chanted for hours non-stop “Ra Ra – Rasputin, when does Boney M begin”.
September: Three weeks tour in England and Ireland.
October: TV – shows in Germany, France, Holland. 23rd October Boney M received the “Golden Antenne” from RTL Germany, “Disco Award 79” from RTL France.
November: Fourth tour in Germany. “Royal Variety Show” in London, with the Royal family as guest of honour.
December: TV shows in Germany, England, Spain, Holland, France and Switzerland. 31st December UNICEF concert in London.
1980 The same as in 1979, many tours, many interviews, many TV shows.
1981 A benefit concert for the 50,000 orphans in Jamaica, together with Rita Marley, Third World and The Melody Makers. After this TV special for the German television, Bobby Farrell decided to leave the group because of mismanagement and bad organization.
1981-1984 With a substitute for Bobby Farrell the group tried to keep up their success, it failed.
1985 Bobby Farrell rejoined the group which resulted in their comeback with the hit song HAPPY SONG. Several TV shows in Germany.
1986 The single YOUNG FREE AND SINGLE. Several TV shows in Germany.
TV special “Ten Years Boney M”.
1987 Concerts in India, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain and Muscat (Oman).
1988 Concerts in Holland, Belgium, France, Switzerland, Cyprus, Iceland, Gibraltar.
After the final split of the group, Maizie Williams took several years of rest but at the beginning of the 90’s the d.j’s and the audience started with a Boney M revival and Maizie decided to start her Boney M. All in all, great years for Boney M, almost 1 million people saw Boney M live in concert, more than 2,5 billion viewers saw Boney M on TV and by December 1987 Boney M had sold nearly 150 million records. The biggest group that ever came out of Germany!!
At the moment Boney M starring Maizie Williams is touring all over the world.
If Maizie Williams and her show are around, come and see it. You will enjoy it and sing along with all the smashing hits of the early days….
Bobby Farrell died on 30 December 2010.
Hits from BONEY M:
* DADDY COOL 34 Weeks in Charts – Nr. 1 !!!
* SUNNY 26 Weeks in Charts – Nr. 1 !!!
* MA BAKER 26 Weeks in Charts – Nr. 1 !!!
* RIVERS OF BABYLON 37 Weeks in Charts – Nr. 1 !!!
* RASPUTIN 19 Weeks in Charts – Nr. 1 !!!
* BELFAST 27 Weeks in Charts – Nr. 1 !!!
* MARY’S BOY CHILD 13 Weeks in Charts – Nr. 1 !!!
* EL LUTE 33 Weeks in Charts – Nr. 1 !!!
* HOORAY, HOORAY 22 Weeks in Charts – Nr. 4
* GOTTA GO HOME 20 Weeks In Charts – Nr. 4
* I SEE A BOAT ON THE RIVER 25 Weeks in Charts – Nr. 5
* HAPPY SONG 16 Weeks in Charts – Nr. 7
* WE KILL THE WORLD 19 Weeks in Charts – Nr. 12
* KALIMBA DE LUNA 22 Weeks in Charts – Nr. 16
* BROWN GIRL IN THE RING 12 Weeks in Charts – Nr. 18
and many more
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