Boney M – Rasputin

BONEY M – Rasputin  
Album: Nightflight to Venus.
Released: 1978.
Single has been released on 28 August 1978. Side B was “Painter Man”,
It was written by the group’s creator Frank Farian, along with George Reyam and Fred Jay.

The song rose to the top of the charts in Germany and Austria and went to No. 2 in the United Kingdom and Switzerland. It was also another No. 1 hit for Boney M. in Australia, giving them their second (and last) chart-topper in that country (the other one being “Rivers of Babylon”).

Although the song was written and performed in English, with single German and Russian words – “But the kasatschok he danced really wunderbar!” – it enjoyed great popularity in the Soviet Union, and is credited with reviving the fame of Rasputin there.[4] The song was omitted, however, from the Soviet pressing of the album and Boney M. were barred from performing the song during their ten performances in Moscow in December 1978

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Boney M. - Rasputin

Boney M. - Rasputin (BBC Top Of The Pops 25.12.1978) (VOD)02:39

Bobby Farrell died in his hotel room after playing in St Petersburg on December 30, 2010: on the same date and in the same town as Rasputin had been murdered. (12/30/1916).

Personnel

• Liz Mitchell – lead and backing vocals (1976–1986, 1987–1989, 1989, 1992–1994)
• Marcia Barrett – lead and backing vocals (1975–1986, 1987, 1988–1989)
• Maizie Williams – dancer, backing and live vocals (1975–1986, 1987–1989)
• Bobby Farrell – dancer, lead, backing and live vocals (1975–81, 1984–1986, 1987, 1988–1989; died 2010)
• Reggie Tsiboe – lead and backing vocals (1982–1986, 1989)

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