Boney M. beyond Babylon. Last updated: October 29, 2008 | 23:43. By Kelly Crane, Staff Reporter. 4 MIN READ. More than 30 years after their first notes were unleashed onto the world, you can still ...

Boney M’s Rivers of Babylon is from their album Nightflight to Venus. It was certified gold in the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Australia, Austria, Belgium, and South Africa.

On the anniversary of America’s independence, the abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass made a biblical Psalm – Psalm 137 – ...

Boney M's influence on post-Soviet popular culture can be heard in the soundtracks of a number of movies, the latest of which is the 2008 Kazakh film "Tulpan," where the protagonist -- Boni ...

Boney M singer Bobby Farrell dies on tour. ... Their version of “By the Rivers of Babylon” sold nearly 2 million records in Britain alone, keeping it No. 1 for five weeks in 1978.

The lead singer of the 1970s disco group Boney M was asked not to sing Rivers of Babylon at a concert in the West Bank because of its reference to Israel.

Boney M. were the disco-kings of the late ’70s with their toe-tapping beats blasting at every party. The Euro-Caribbean band comprising Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett from Jamaica, Maizie Williams ...

M.I.A. has shared a new song, “Babylon.” Fueled by a drum and bass-style breakbeat and a sample of Boney M’s 1978 hit “Rivers of Babylon,” it’s a pretty infectious track.

Bobby Farrell, whose group Boney M topped the 1970s European charts with its glittering showmanship and blend of disco and Calypso music, was found dead in his hotel bed Thursday while on tour in ...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - When the iconic 1970s disco group Boney M rocked Ramallah ... Lead singer Maizie Williams said Palestinian concert organizers told her not to sing “Rivers of Babylon.” ...

The iconic German band Boney M is back in Portugal for an exclusive concert at LX Factory on October 18.

Bobby Farrell, singer in the ’70s disco group Boney M, died Dec. 30 while on tour in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was 61. Farrell was found dead of unknown causes in his hotel room after he failed ...