Frank Farian, the producer behind both Boney M and Milli Vanilli, has died at the age of 82, his representatives have confirmed.
He began his musical career as a singer, adopting the Boney M name for himself in the mid-’70s, but it was when he recruited a full line-up of dancers and vocalists that the band when stratospheric. The likes of Daddy Cool, Rivers of Babylon, Rasputin and Mary’s Boy Child were huge hits, though it wasn’t actually frontman Bobby Farrell who was singing on the recordings - it was Farian.
