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Boney M.

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Boney M. was a Euro-Caribbean vocal group created by German record producer Frank Farian. [1]

112 relations: A-side and B-side, ABBA, Amanda Lear, Andes, Ariola Records, Aruba, Atlantic Records, Baby Do You Wanna Bump, Baby's Gang, Barack Obama, Bee Gees, Belfast (Boney M. song), Bertelsmann Music Group, Billboard Hot 100, Bobby Farrell, Bobby Hebb, Boney (TV series), Boonoonoonoos, Bravo (magazine), British Phonographic Industry, Brown Girl in the Ring (song), Calypso music, Caribbean, Christmas Album (Boney M. album), Christmas with Boney M. (2007 album), CJ7, Contemporary R&B, Daddy Cool (Boney M. song), Daddy Cool (musical), Disco, Donna Summer, El Lute / Gotta Go Home, Elton John, Euro disco, Europe, Everybody Wants to Dance Like Josephine Baker, Eye Dance, Falsetto, Felicidad (Margherita), Frank Farian, Germans, Gilla (singer), Goa, Greece, Hansa Records, Harry Belafonte, Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday, I'm Born Again / Bahama Mama, International Film Festival of India, Israel, ..., Jamaica, Joe Simpson (mountaineer), Kalimba de Luna – 16 Happy Songs, Kevin Macdonald (director), Les Humphries Singers, List of best-selling singles in the United Kingdom, List of million-selling singles in the United Kingdom, List of UK Singles Chart Christmas number ones, List of vocal groups, Liz Mitchell, Love for Sale (Boney M. album), Ma Baker, Maizie Williams, Marcia Barrett, Mary's Boy Child, Mary's Boy Child – Oh My Lord, Melo-M, Milli Vanilli, Montserrat, Mousse T., Musikladen, Nightflight to Venus, No Woman, No Cry, NU.nl, Oceans of Fantasy, Official Charts Company, Painter Man, Panaji, Patras, Patras Carnival, Psalm 137, Ra'anana, Radio Bremen, Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Rasputin (song), Reggae, Reggie Tsiboe, Repentance (1987 film), Rivers of Babylon, Rivers of Babylon (A Best of Collection), Roh Moo-hyun, Russia-1, Saint Petersburg, Shanghai Dreams, Sheyla Bonnick, Siula Grande, Sony Music, South Korean presidential election, 2002, Soviet Union, Sunny (2011 film), Sunny (Bobby Hebb song), Sunny Girl, Take the Heat off Me, Ten Thousand Lightyears, The Collection (Boney M. box set), The Magic of Boney M., The Melodians, Tony Esposito (musician), Touching the Void, Touching the Void (film), Tulpan, West Germany. Expand index (62 more) »

A-side and B-side

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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ABBA

ABBA are a Swedish pop group, formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad.

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Amanda Lear

Amanda Lear (née Tapp; born 18 November 1939) is a French-Italian singer, lyricist, painter, television presenter, actress and former model.

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Andes

The Andes or Andean Mountains (Cordillera de los Andes) are the longest continental mountain range in the world.

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Ariola Records

Ariola Records (also known as Ariola, Ariola-Eurodisc and BMG Ariola) is a German record label.

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Aruba

Aruba (Papiamento) is an island and a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the southern Caribbean Sea, located about west of the main part of the Lesser Antilles and north of the coast of Venezuela.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson.

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Baby Do You Wanna Bump

"Baby Do You Wanna Bump" is a song recorded by German record producer Frank Farian under the name Boney M. and included on the 1976 album Take the Heat off Me.

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Baby's Gang

Baby's Gang was an Italian musical project, best known for their 1983 hit single "Happy Song".

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.

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Bee Gees

The Bee Gees --> were a pop music group formed in 1958.

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Belfast (Boney M. song)

"Belfast" is the second single of the Euro disco band Boney M.'s 1977 album Love for Sale.

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Bertelsmann Music Group

Bertelsmann Music Group (abbreviated as BMG) was a division of German media company Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on 1 October 2008.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Bobby Farrell

Roberto Alfonso Farrell (6 October 1949 – 30 December 2010) was a Dutch dancer and performer from Aruba, best known as the male member of the successful 1970s pop and disco group Boney M.

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Bobby Hebb

Robert Von "Bobby" Hebb (July 26, 1938 ‒ August 3, 2010) was an American R&B/soul singer, musician, songwriter, recording artist, and performer known for his 1966 hit entitled "Sunny".

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Boney (TV series)

Boney is an Australian television series produced by Fauna Productions during 1971 and 1972, featuring James Laurenson in the title role of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte.

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Boonoonoonoos

Boonoonoonoos is the fifth studio album by Boney M. It was released in September 1981.

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Bravo (magazine)

Bravo is the largest teen magazine within the German-language sphere.

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British Phonographic Industry

The BPI (British Recorded Music Industry) Limited, commonly known as the British Phonographic Industry or BPI, is the British recorded music industry's trade association.

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Brown Girl in the Ring (song)

"Brown Girl in the Ring" is a traditional children's song in the West Indies.

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Calypso music

Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and eventually spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.

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Christmas Album (Boney M. album)

Christmas Album is the sixth studio album by Boney M. It was recorded in the summer of 1981 and released on 23 November 1981.

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Christmas with Boney M. (2007 album)

Christmas With Boney M. is another Christmas compilation by Boney M., released November 16, 2007, containing all 12 songs from their original 1981 Christmas Album plus six later songs, recorded in 1984 for the album Christmas with Boney M. (1984).

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CJ7

CJ7 is a 2008 Hong Kong–Chinese comic science fiction film co-written, co-produced, starring, and directed by Stephen Chow.

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Contemporary R&B

Contemporary R&B (also known as simply R&B), is a music genre that combines elements of rhythm and blues, pop, soul, funk, hip hop, and electronic music.

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Daddy Cool (Boney M. song)

"Daddy Cool" is a song recorded by Boney M. and included on their debut album Take the Heat off Me.

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Daddy Cool (musical)

Daddy Cool is a musical based upon the works of Boney M and other Frank Farian produced artists.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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Donna Summer

LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948May 17, 2012), widely known by her stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and painter.

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El Lute / Gotta Go Home

"El Lute" / "Gotta Go Home" is a double A-side single by German group Boney M. It was the lead single from their fourth album Oceans of Fantasy (1979) and was the group's eighth and final number-one single in the German charts.

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Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer, pianist, and composer.

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Euro disco

Euro disco (or Eurodisco) is the variety of European forms of electronic dance music that evolved from disco in the later 1970s; incorporating elements of pop, new wave and rock into a disco-like continuous dance atmosphere.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Everybody Wants to Dance Like Josephine Baker

"Everybody Wants to Dance Like Josephine Baker" is a 1989 single by German band Boney M. Produced by Barry Blue and recorded by original Boney M. members Marcia Barrett, Bobby Farrell, Maizie Williams and singer Madeleine Davis replacing Liz Mitchell, the single was withdrawn when original producer Frank Farian claimed copyright to the name Boney M. and a court case followed.

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Eye Dance

Eye Dance is the eighth and final studio album by the vocal group Boney M., released in 1985.

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Falsetto

Falsetto (Italian diminutive of falso, "false") is the vocal register occupying the frequency range just above the modal voice register and overlapping with it by approximately one octave.

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Felicidad (Margherita)

"Felicidad (Margherita)" is a 1980 single by German band Boney M., not included in any original album by the group.

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Frank Farian

Frank Farian (born Franz Reuther 18 July 1941, Kirn, Germany) is a German record producer and songwriter, best known as the founder and voice behind the 1970s' disco-pop group Boney M. and as the mastermind and voice behind the lip-synching group Milli Vanilli.

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Germans

Germans (Deutsche) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe, who share a common German ancestry, culture and history.

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Gilla (singer)

Gilla (born Gisela Wuchinger, 27 February 1950) is an Austrian singer from the late 1970s disco era.

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Goa

Goa is a state in India within the coastal region known as the Konkan, in Western India.

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Greece

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Hansa Records

Hansa Records (also known as Hansa, Hansa Musik Produktion or Hansa International) was a record label founded in the 1960s based in West Berlin, West Germany.

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Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927) is an American singer, songwriter, actor, and social activist.

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Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday

"Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday" is a 1979 single by Euro disco band Boney M. as an adaptation of nursery rhyme Polly Wolly Doodle.

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I'm Born Again / Bahama Mama

"I'm Born Again" / "Bahama Mama" is a double A-side single by German band Boney M. It was the second single from their fourth album Oceans of Fantasy (1979), not withcounting a promotional-only single release of "Let It All Be Music" and the album title track.

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International Film Festival of India

The International Film Festival of India (IFFI), founded in 1952, is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.

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Joe Simpson (mountaineer)

Joe Simpson (born 1960) is an English mountaineer, author and motivational speaker.

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Kalimba de Luna – 16 Happy Songs

Kalimba de Luna – 16 Happy Songs is a compilation album by Boney M. released in late 1984.

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Kevin Macdonald (director)

Kevin Macdonald (born 28 October 1967) is a Scottish director.

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Les Humphries Singers

The Les Humphries Singers was a 1970s musical group formed in Hamburg, Germany in 1969 by the English born Les Humphries (born John Lesley Humphreys, 10 August 1940, in Croydon, Surrey, England - died 26 December 2007, in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England).

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List of best-selling singles in the United Kingdom

For the purposes of calculating sales, a single is currently defined by the Official Charts Company (OCC) as either a 'single bundle' having no more than four tracks and not lasting longer than 25 minutes or one digital audio track not longer than 15 minutes with a minimum sale price of 40 pence.

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List of million-selling singles in the United Kingdom

The definition of a million-selling single, as regarded by the Official Charts Company (OCC), has changed in line with new technology for music consumption.

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List of UK Singles Chart Christmas number ones

In the United Kingdom, Christmas number ones are singles that are top of the UK Singles Chart in the week in which Christmas Day falls.

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List of vocal groups

A vocal group is a group of singers who sing and harmonize together with a backup band.

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Liz Mitchell

Elizabeth Rebecca Mitchell (born 12 July 1952) is a Jamaican-British singer, best known as the former lead singer of the 1970s disco/reggae band Boney M.

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Love for Sale (Boney M. album)

Love for Sale is the second studio album by Euro-Caribbean group Boney M. The album includes the hits "Ma Baker" and "Belfast".

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Ma Baker

"Ma Baker" is a song by German band Boney M., released as a single in 1977.

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Maizie Williams

Maizie Ursula Williams (born 25 March 1951 in Montserrat, British West Indies) is a British model and singer who became one of the original members of the successful 1970s disco music group Boney M. Though she did not sing on the studio recordings of their songs, she did perform live and subsequently established an independent career as a singer.

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Marcia Barrett

Marcia Barrett (born 14 October 1948) is a Jamaican-born British singer and one of the original singers with the vocal group Boney M.

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Mary's Boy Child

"Mary's Boy Child" is a 1956 Christmas song, written by Jester Hairston.

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Mary's Boy Child – Oh My Lord

"Mary's Boy Child / Oh My Lord" is a 1978 Christmas single for Boney M., a cover of Harry Belafonte's 1956 hit, put in medley with the new song "Oh My Lord" (Farian / Jay).

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Melo-M

Melo-M is a Latvian instrumental cello rock trio consisting of three classically trained cellists: Kārlis Auzāns, Miķelis Dobičins and Jānis Pauls.

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Milli Vanilli

Milli Vanilli was a German R&B duo from Munich.

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Montserrat

Montserrat is a Caribbean island in the Leeward Islands, which is part of the chain known as the Lesser Antilles, in the West Indies.

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Mousse T.

Mustafa Gündoğdu (born 2 October 1966), best known under his stage name Mousse T., is a German DJ, Grammy Award nominated record producer, film composer and judge on season 15 (2018) of Deutschland sucht den Superstar.

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Musikladen

Der Musikladen (The Music Shop) was a West German music television programme that ran from 13 December 1972 to 29 November 1984.

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Nightflight to Venus

Nightflight to Venus is the third studio album by Euro-Caribbean group Boney M., and was released in July 1978.

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No Woman, No Cry

"No Woman, No Cry" is a reggae song by Bob Marley and the Wailers.

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NU.nl

NU.nl is a Dutch online newspaper.

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Oceans of Fantasy

Oceans of Fantasy is the fourth studio album by Euro-Caribbean group Boney M. Released in September 1979, Oceans Of Fantasy became the second Boney M. album to top the UK charts and features hits "El Lute / Gotta Go Home" and "I'm Born Again / Bahama Mama".

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Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company, also referred to as Official Charts (previously known as the Chart Information Network (CIN) and The Official UK Charts Company) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various "official" record charts in the United Kingdom, including the UK Singles Chart, the UK Albums Chart, the UK Singles Downloads Chart and the UK Album Downloads Chart, as well as genre-specific and music video charts.

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Painter Man

Painter Man is a song by the English rock band The Creation.

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Panaji

Panaji also known as Panjim, Pangim) is the capital of the Indian state of Goa and the headquarters of North Goa district. It lies on the banks of the Mandovi River estuary in the Ilhas de Goa sub-district (taluka). With a population of 114,759 in the metropolitan area, Panjim is Goa's largest Urban agglomeration, ahead of Margão and Vasco da Gama. Panjim has terraced hills, concrete buildings with balconies and red-tiled roofs, churches, and a riverside promenade. There are avenues lined with gulmohar, acacia and other trees. The Baroque Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Church is located overlooking the main square known as Praça da Igreja. Panjim has been selected as one of hundred Indian cities to be developed as a smart city under the Smart Cities Mission. This city of stepped streets and a seven kilometre long promenade was built on a planned grid system after the Portuguese relocated the capital form Velha Goa in the 17th century. It was elevated from a town to a city on March 22, 1843 making it the oldest civic institution in Asia (175 years).

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Patras

Patras (Πάτρα, Classical Greek and Katharevousa: Πάτραι (pl.),, Patrae (pl.)) is Greece's third-largest city and the regional capital of Western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese, west of Athens.

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Patras Carnival

The Patras Carnival, Patrino karnavali is the largest event of its kind in Greece and one of the biggest in Europe.

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Psalm 137

Psalm 137 (Greek numbering: Psalm 136) is the 137th psalm of the Book of Psalms, a Communal lament about being in exile after the Babylonian captivity, and yearning for Jerusalem.

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Ra'anana

Ra'anana (רַעֲנָנָּה, lit. "Fresh") is a city in the heart of the southern Sharon Plain of the Central District of Israel.

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Radio Bremen

Radio Bremen (RB), Germany's smallest public radio and television broadcaster, is the legally mandated broadcaster for the city-state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (which includes Bremerhaven).

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Raidió Teilifís Éireann

Raidió Teilifís Éireann (Radio-Television of Ireland; abbreviated as RTÉ) is a semi-state company and the national public service broadcaster of Ireland.

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Rasputin (song)

"Rasputin" is a 1978 euro disco hit single by the Germany-based pop and euro disco group Boney M., the second from their album Nightflight to Venus.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Reggie Tsiboe

Reggie Tsiboe (born 7 September 1950 in Kumasi, Ghana) is one of the former lead singers of the disco group Boney M. between 1982 and 1986 and later between 1989 and 1990.

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Repentance (1987 film)

Repentance (Monanieba translit. Monanieba, Pokayaniye) is a Georgian film directed by Tengiz Abuladze.

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Rivers of Babylon

"Rivers of Babylon" is a Rastafari song written and recorded by Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton of the Jamaican reggae group The Melodians in 1970.

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Rivers of Babylon (A Best of Collection)

Rivers of Babylon (A Best of Collection) is a budget-priced CD compilation by Boney M., released by Sony-BMG in their "A Best of Collection" series.

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Roh Moo-hyun

Roh Moo-hyun GOM (1 September 1946 – 23 May 2009) was a South Korean politician who served as President of South Korea (2003–2008).

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Russia-1

Russia-1 (Россия-1) is a state-owned Russian television channel first aired on 22 March 1951 as Programme One in the Soviet Union.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg (p) is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow, with 5 million inhabitants in 2012, part of the Saint Petersburg agglomeration with a population of 6.2 million (2015).

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Shanghai Dreams

Shanghai Dreams is a 2005 Chinese film directed by Wang Xiaoshuai and starring Gao Yuanyuan, Li Bin, Tang Yang, Wang Xiaoyang, and Yao Anlian.

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Sheyla Bonnick

Sheyla Bonnick is a singer and performer, born in Jamaica and brought up in England.

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Siula Grande

Siula Grande is a mountain in the Huayhuash mountain range in the Peruvian Andes.

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Sony Music

Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is a Japanese-owned global music conglomerate owned by Sony and incorporated as a general partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. (in Japanese), Sony Corporation The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records, and Sony Corporation bought the company in 1988, renaming it under its current name in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture called Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which transferred the businesses of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group into one entity. However, in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake, and the company reverted to the SME name shortly after; the buyout allowed Sony to acquire all of BMG's labels, including former Columbia Pictures subsidiary Arista Records as well as RCA Records, and led to the dissolution of BMG, which instead relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is the second largest of the "Big Three" record companies in the world, behind Universal Music Group (UMG) and ahead of Warner Music Group (WMG). Sony's music publishing division is the world's largest music publisher after the acquisition of EMI. It also owns SYCO Entertainment, which operates some of the world's most successful reality TV format including Got Talent and The X Factor.

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South Korean presidential election, 2002

Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 19 December 2002.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Sunny (2011 film)

Sunny is a 2011 South Korean comedy-drama film.

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Sunny (Bobby Hebb song)

"Sunny" is a song written by Bobby Hebb, from 1966.

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Sunny Girl

Sunny Girl is a 2011 Taiwanese drama starring Wu Chun and Rainie Yang It is produced by Comic International Productions (可米國際影視事業股份有限公司).

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Take the Heat off Me

Take the Heat Off Me is the debut album by Euro-Caribbean group Boney M..

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Ten Thousand Lightyears

Ten Thousand Lightyears is the seventh studio album by Boney M. and the first to feature new member Reggie Tsiboe, who had taken over Bobby Farrell's role as the band's leading man in early 1982.

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The Collection (Boney M. box set)

'The Collection' is a budget-priced 3-CD box set by Boney M., released on Sony-BMG, featuring a mix of singles, album tracks and 12" versions, including one song "Daddy Cool (Anniversary Recording '86)" previously unavailable on CD and a further 17 mixes that are previously unreleased on CD.

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The Magic of Boney M.

The Magic of Boney M. is a greatest hits album of recordings by Boney M. released by Sony BMG in October 2006.

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The Melodians

The Melodians are a rocksteady band formed in the Greenwich Town area of Kingston, Jamaica, in 1963, by Tony Brevett (born 1949, nephew of The Skatalites bassist, Lloyd Brevett), Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton.

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Tony Esposito (musician)

Antonio "Tony" Esposito (born 15 July 1950) is an Italian musician, drummer and percussionist.

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Touching the Void

Touching the Void is a 1988 book by Joe Simpson, recounting his and Simon Yates' successful but disastrous and nearly fatal climb of the 6,344-metre (20,813 foot) Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.

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Touching the Void (film)

Touching the Void is a 2003 docudrama survival film about Joe Simpson's and Simon Yates' disastrous and near-fatal climb of Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.

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Tulpan

Tulpan is a 2008 Kazakh drama film.

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West Germany

West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; Bundesrepublik Deutschland, BRD) in the period between its creation on 23 May 1949 and German reunification on 3 October 1990.

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Boney M, Bonnie M, Bonny M, Bonny-M, Bony m, Tony Ashcroft.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boney_M.

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