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Post by jdbaptist on Aug 4, 2008 12:08:15 GMT 1
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Post by lange on Aug 4, 2008 18:59:49 GMT 1
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Post by jdbaptist on Aug 5, 2008 13:29:09 GMT 1
Thanks Lange I saw these cliips too. I think you may be right about how cold the Boneys were on this Dutch TV show at the beach. I remember seeing some photos some place (I have a fan photo from this actual shoot) where the group had their fur coats on during breaks because it was shot early in the morning and very, very cold.
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Post by richardjohn on Aug 7, 2008 21:25:54 GMT 1
Great to see this clip. The sea doesn't look that tempting does it. They did look great in those costumes.
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Post by jdbaptist on Aug 10, 2008 12:42:04 GMT 1
They certainly made a mark! In a review, when they opened here in Dublin in concert in 1979 the reporter said you could hear the audience gasp and take a second look to realise that the Boneys had anything on! Fastastic!
Marcia got a standing ovation for 'Hey Joe' at this concert too... I didn't see it (sigh!) but I knew one of the backing singers used on the concert through a school friend - there were a few strange looks when Liz performed 'I'm Born Again' - it's a tune from an old Irish song...
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Post by lange on Aug 11, 2008 7:07:58 GMT 1
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Post by jdbaptist on Aug 11, 2008 12:10:22 GMT 1
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Post by lange on Aug 16, 2008 18:50:54 GMT 1
I do simply not believe that article from The Independent! Should the record buying public in England be so stupid that they didn’t know what was on the B-side of their singles? I do not think so. The single was popular and sold million of copies in England and was equally popular in all other countries.
I believe that the problem is, that it was Boney M. who was behind the single. The group wasn’t/isn’t seen as a serious act and therefore it’s a problem for some, that the group has one of the best selling singles in England ever. If it had been an act who was seen as a serious act, there wouldn’t have been any problem at all. Then the millions of sold singles would just have proven the act’s popularity and stated how great it was and so on.
But because it was Boney M., the sales just can’t be right and the reason should be that many bought the same single twice?
Come on! Why is it so hard for the critics to give Boney M. the credit the group deserves? The single sold by the millions because it was extremely popular and not because the record buying in England was stupid. They simply loved the single!
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Post by hhs on Aug 17, 2008 1:42:07 GMT 1
You´re right Lange, normal (what is normal?) consumer is not that stupid, besides on most cases the song names for BOTH, A-side and B-side, are typed with a MILE-high text on the cover. It would require blindness too... or the byers hadn´t the precious skill of reading.  In fact the only "stupid" are we  , the fans, who buy everything with a slight difference from each other seemingly similar item and THAT, my friends, is the fun part in this serious hobby ;D May this "stupidity" live long and prosper! |
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Post by richardjohn on Aug 19, 2008 22:08:20 GMT 1
The article is complete nonsense. I am old enough to remember 'Rivers of Babylon' topping the UK charts. Sure they only started playing 'Brown Girl In The Ring' after 'Rivers' had dropped down the chart, but everyone knew that it was the 'b' side.
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Post by richardjohn on Aug 19, 2008 22:09:34 GMT 1
The article is complete nonsense. I am old enough to remember 'Rivers of Babylon' topping the UK charts. Sure they only started playing 'Brown Girl In The Ring' after 'Rivers' had dropped down the chart, but everyone knew that it was the 'b' side.
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Post by hhs on Aug 19, 2008 23:17:01 GMT 1
...the police is one of the professions where you either can read or write, but not both... maybe the articles makers are too and as such they didn´t know what was on the other side...
Someone writes articles and then (suprise) they DO HAVE someone who reads it before pressing. lol
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Post by jdbaptist on Aug 20, 2008 13:47:01 GMT 1
LOL - very true hhs!
Like Richard John, I too remember the release of 'Rivers Of Babylon' and 'Brown Girl In The Ring' in 1978.
I also remember that, in regions where the single had a picture sleeve, it clearly displayed the name of both tracks.
If you also recall 'Top Of The Pops' for this period and the chart countdown, the show made no 'bones' about the fact that these songs were on the same record, immediately displaying the record on the charts as a double 'A' Sided hit.
To be fair though, I do remember a very minor controversy at the time (probably created by the tabloids in that period) about the single being bought by 'some' customers (I don't think 2 Million of them!) who bought the same record twice.
This article that I saw in the Telegraph has now been picked up by a number of web publications across the world! Obviously they have little else to write about like all Hell breaking loose in Georgia, for instance.
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Post by hhs on Aug 20, 2008 17:46:10 GMT 1
Some Michael Jackson has sold millions of albums called "Thriller" many of them I believe are played to ruin through the years. Many of them are bought newly because of this, shouldn´t those be counted out from the total then?
I mean, this goes for all those records and buyers who buy the records for playing them and playing them... all over again and possibly with not so good players, with not so good handling, with...
This doesn´t go for us, but who´s to count out those records WE buy because of a minor difference from the "original-version"?
Bah, the whole hula-baloo caused by this article is without any grounds.
It´s pure rubbish.
You could find millions of excuses for millions of artists, why not to count a certain sales for the total.
It´s a sickness with a green color all over it!
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Post by jdbaptist on Aug 20, 2008 21:16:06 GMT 1
Too true! The Boneys really got up the noses of a lot of UK 'Muso' types - they really did go to the top in an unprecendented success in the Uk singles charts - and they have the certification to prove it!
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, the fans, who buy everything with a slight difference from each other seemingly similar item and THAT, my friends, is the fun part in this serious hobby ;D