News is coming through of the passing of Frank Farian, aged 82, who gave the world Boney M and, perhaps more memorably but for the wrong reasons, Milli Vanilli. Frank was, of course, the actual male voice on the records, in which capacity I will say he was quite good, but arguably the best move he made was casting Bobby Farrell as the male face of the band. Not only could Bobby move, but he actually had a pretty good voice for this sort of music when he was allowed to actually deploy it in live performance. I don’t know what was fuelling him in this particular performance, but he’s fucking great in it, and to be honest I think I prefer to celebrate him than Farian, who may have given Farrell his career but also screwed him out of the rewards therefrom…
