How Boney M was the first group that was allowed into the USSR: Liz Mitchell gave an exclusive interview to ForumDaily - ForumDaily
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How Boney M was the first group that was allowed into the USSR: Liz Mitchell gave an exclusive interview to ForumDaily

The legendary Boney M. group with the outrageous soloist Liz Mitchell, who stormed the world charts with the killer hits Daddy Cool, Sunny, Ma Baker, Rasputin, still does not leave many track lists. Liz Mitchell answered the questions of the ForumDaily editorial staff.

Photo: group press service

You have been performing for almost half a century. What was the best year for the band?

Yes, I have been performing for 49 years. She began her career in 1970. The show at Musical HAIR was a protest against the war. I joined Les Humphries Singers in 1971 and Boney M in 1976. I love music and was created to be a singer. I easily convey the state of love in my soul when I sing songs. The most successful year was 1978.

Which of your songs have become number one for both Americans and your homeland?

“Rivers of Babylon”, “Sunny”, “Daddy Cool”, “Rasputin”, “Mary’s boy chil”, “Brown girl in the ring”.

People listen to your songs for almost 50 years. Do you have a musician who you would like more than half a century?

All my life I love music, so I like singers and musicians of all time: Sam Cook, Aretha Franklin, Diana Ross.

During the course of your life, you must have experienced dozens of amazing moments, which of them can you call the most crucial?

So much was hard to choose. Arriving in Vietnam was definitely one of the most memorable moments for me. My eyes shone with joy when I met people, and we sang for them. As I said, I sang about the war in 1970, before I was successful with Boney M. in 1976. Coming to Vietnam was a dream.

Are you interested in anything other than music?

Perhaps teaching is the main thing that captivates me now.

You toured around the world. What place on earth is your favorite?

God gave us a beautiful world. On tour, I can't always see what travelers see, but I still manage to see the wonders of nature that deprive me of speech. We live in a beautiful and beautiful world and must cherish it.

You once said that you started making music not in order to make millions, but because you love music. But if there were no music, what would you do?

This is simply impossible. Our world begins with sound, the first moment on earth, birth is accompanied by sound. And music is sound, so it’s even impossible to imagine a world in which I couldn’t make music.

Photo: group press service

Among our readers are many immigrants from the Soviet Union. For them, you are a real legend. You were the first foreign group that was allowed to come and perform in the Soviet Union. How did you manage it?

Our music penetrated the hearts of the leaders of that time, so they allowed us to perform.

What is your impression of the Soviet Union?

In the 1978 year, during our first visit, we thoroughly enjoyed the blessing from above.

You mentioned that during your first visit to Moscow you drank vodka to keep warm, and ate a lot of caviar. Are there any Russian dishes that you still like?

I still love caviar and borscht.

What inspired some of your most memorable songs, such as Rasputin and Sunny?

Rasputin's story was interesting ...

The song was written and performed in English, with a German spirit. Although she was very popular in the USSR, she was removed from the playlist during Boney M's performance in Moscow in December 1978. A year later, the group visited socialist Poland, the city of Sopot, but there Rasputin was performed, again despite the ban of government officials, albeit in a slightly edited form. This concert was broadcast on national television in Poland. Around the same time, it appeared on Polish radio and was heard there despite all censorship - in its entirety, as it was intended. Rasputin died on December 29, 1916. By an unfortunate coincidence, one of the members of Boney M, Bobby Farrell, died at the age of 61 on the same day as Rasputin - December 29, 2010 in a hotel room in St. Petersburg, Russia, a few hours after a performance in the city.

...And Synny was a hit that had already been sung before us, but in our version, in an updated version, it received a second birth.

The song became most popular when performed by Boney M in 1976. But the song first hit the charts in 1966, performed by its author, Bobby Hebb, an American singer and composer. He wrote it in November 1963. On November 22, John Kennedy was assassinated, and the next day Bobby's brother, Harold, was stabbed to death in a fight. Devastated by these two events, Bobby Hebb turned to music. The result was Sunny, a reflection on happier days. The song remained Hebb's only hit, but its popularity was very high - in 1966, Hebb even opened for the Beatles (Source).

What is your favorite song from the Boney M repertoire?

…I have not it.

And at the end we would like to ask a couple of questions from the Proust questionnaire. What do you value most in your friends?

Loyalty.

What are you most afraid of?

Fear is my enemy. And yet I am not afraid.

How do you imagine happiness?

Free to live and be grateful.

When and where did you feel most happy?

When was with my children in their infancy. With my family. With my husband and children ...

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