Boney M不仅是一支在上个世纪七、八十年代风靡一时的迪斯科乐队，更是整个迪斯科时代的一个传奇。是制作人弗朗克·菲林最初在德国创办了Boney M, 这支乐队就在70年代末80年代初就雄踞欧洲音乐排行榜之首，它的一系列具有独特的迪斯科名曲至今仍脍炙人口。Boney M第一首歌出现于1974年12月，是制作人他以假名“Boney M”创作了歌曲“Baby Do You Wanna Bump”波尼是一部电视连续剧中的英雄。这首歌曲最初只在夜总会获得成功，每周唱片销量约500张。1975年底：荷兰电视台和Discos公司希望Boney M 能够出现在舞台上，于是找来了4名黑人女歌手和一名男歌手Boney M合作，这是Boney M演唱组的雏形。演唱组成员不断更换，来了灵魂莉兹·麦考尔，她演唱了绝大多数的歌曲。莉兹出生于牙买加，上个世纪60年代末来到了德国。在听取了住在汉堡的制作人马奇拉·巴莱特的建议之后她加入了Boney M演唱组。制作人弗朗克.菲林后来说：“就算换掉演唱组中所有的成员都不会对演唱组造成伤害，但只有莉兹除外。”而莉兹首唱的歌中最著名的就是《巴比伦河》(River of Babylon)，而《爸爸真酷》、《阳光灿烂》等也是她的原唱。
 
Boney M. is a 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 Jamaican-born British singers Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett, Maizie Williams from Montserrat and Bobby Farrell from Aruba. The group was formed in 1975 and achieved popularity during the disco era of the late 1970s.
 
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by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
 
Nightflight to Venus Although they never had much success in America, the Euro-disco group Boney M. were a European phenomenon during the '70s. After German record producer Frank Farian (born in 1942) recorded the single &Baby Do You Wanna Bump?& (which was successful in Holland and Belgium), he created Boney M. to support the song, bringing in four West Indian vocalists who had been working as session singers in Germany -- Marcia Barrett (b. October 14, 1948, St. Catherines, Jamaica), Liz Mitchell (b. July 12, 1952, Clarendon, Jamaica), Maizie Williams (b. March 25, 1951, Monserrat, West Indies), and Bobby Farrell (b. October 6, 1949, Aruba, West Indies, d. December 30, 2010, St. Petersburg, Russia). &Daddy Cool& reached the U.K. Top Ten in February 1977, followed in April by a remake of Bobby Hebb's &Sunny.& In July, &Ma Baker& just missed the U.K. number one spot, and &Belfast& hit the Top Ten in December. In 1978, Boney M. were at the height of their popularity with &Rivers of Babylon&/&Brown Girl in the Ring,& which became the second-biggest selling single in U.K. chart history. &Rivers of Babylon& also was Boney M.'s only U.S. Top 40 hit. Boney M.'s album, Nightflight to Venus, also topped the U.K. charts. In October 1978, &Rasputin& became another U.K. Top Ten hit, followed by the seasonal chart-topper &Mary's Boy Child&/&Oh My Lord,& which became the fifth-biggest selling single in U.K. history. In March 1979, &Painter Man& hit the U.K. Top Ten, followed in May by &Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday.& In September, the album Oceans of Fantasy hit number one. Their music continues to sell well in Europe, with a compilation hitting the U.K. Top Ten in 1994. Farian went on to create the late-'80s dance sensation Milli Vanilli.