This morning’s odd question is why did Boney M make a song about Rasputin, and how did they end up sampling from a Turkish folk song as melody?
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Replying to @zeynep
Farian, the songwriter & man who put together the group, was West German. Lots of émigrés Russian/Turkish influences in the ‘70s.
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Replying to @MenaBurke
That helps explain why they drop German words here and there!
4:43 AM - 30 Nov 2017
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