Music News - Disco legends Boney M return to NZ for Greatest Hits Tour
12 April 2017 - 0 Comments
Boney M were a phenomenon in the 70s, and to this day, the
their hits - Daddy
Cool, Ma
Baker, Rivers
of Babylon, Rasputin-
are still the life and soul of the party.
With 18 Platinum and 15 Gold LPs, more than 200 Gold and Platinum Singles to
their name, the disco legends have sold a mind-blowing 150 million records
worldwide and continue to play live, today announcing an eight-date tour of New
Zealand.
The Boney M Greatest
Hits Tour kicks off at the Town Hall in Dunedin on Wednesday, June 7 and
takes in the country’s regions and main centres, finishing up in Auckland at the Bruce Mason Centre on Friday, June 16.
Boney M’s
remarkable journey began after German record producer Frank Farian recorded
the single Baby Do You
Wanna Bump? In 1974 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, Liz Mitchell, Maizie Williams and Bobby Farrell.
Their first appearance in Germany was a performance of the song Daddy Cool in the
then important and famous TV-Show Musikladen in 1976, which led to around
100,000 singles per week flying off shelves and the astounding success of their
album Take The Heat Off Me.
In July 1976, Daddy
Cool became the first Number 1 for Boney M in Germany and
in December 1976, it hit the Top 10 in the UK. That same year in Germany, the
follow-up was a remake of Bobby Hebb's Sunny,
which hit Number 1 in December 1976, and Number 1 in the UK in March 1977.
In May 1977, Ma Baker again scored top10 in the UK charts, followed by Belfast in October.
By 1978, Boney M was at the height of its popularity with Rivers
of Babylon/Brown Girl in the Ring, which became the
second-biggest selling single in UK chart history. Rivers of Babylon also was Boney M's
only US Top 40 hit.
The hits continued to roll out throughout the remainder of the 70s - Rasputin, Painter Man and Hooray! Hooray! It’s a Holi-Holiday both becoming Top 10 hits, while Mary’s
Boy Child/Oh My Lord was a Christmas chart-topper, becoming
the fifth biggest selling single in UK history.
They kept dance floors packed and a generation dancing. Don’t miss your chance
to see one of the greatest disco acts ever - Boney M’s Greatest Hits Tour, coming soon
to a town or city near you!
Tickets on sale Thursday April 13 at 9.00am from http://www.classicpromotions.co.nz/
Wednesday
June 7th - Town Hall, Dunedin
Thursday June 8th
- Horncastle Arena, Christchurch
Friday June 9th -
Claudelands Arena, Hamilton
Saturday June 10th
- ASB Baypark, Tauranga
Sunday June 11th -
Municipal Theatre, Napier
Wednesday June 14th -
EEC, Rotorua
Thursday June 15th -
Opera House, Wellington
Friday June 16th - Bruce
Mason Center, Auckland
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