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The discography of German disco group Boney M. includes 8 studio albums, about 25 singles (released during the group's active years), and numerous compilation albums.

Albums

Studio albums

Charting and/or certified compilation albums

Singles

Videography

* ''Boney M'' – VHS, Mirror Vision (1981)
* ''Gold'' – VHS/VCD (in Hong Kong) (1993)
* ''Gold'' DVD (2001, Europe)
* ''Greatest Hits'' (2001, UK)
* ''Special Edition'' (2002, South Korea)
* ''Special Edition'' EP (2003, UK)
* ''The Magic of Boney M.'' (2006)
* ''Fantastic Boney M. – On Stage and on the Road'' (2007)
* ''Legendary TV Performances'' (2010)
* ''Diamonds'' (2015)

Songs that were re-worked into Boney M. titles

Frank Farian's right hand Hans-Jörg Mayer (aka Georg Reyam) sought out songs from all over the world, often public domain (non-copyrighted) folk tunes but as well works from other musicians/composers (usually not credited) and rewrote them for Boney M.

Borrowed themes

* The first Boney M. recording " Baby Do You Wanna Bump" (1975) is based on Prince Buster's "Al Capone" (1967).
* " Motherless Child" (1977) is a rewrite of " Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child".
* " Ma Baker" is a rewrite of a Tunisian traditional song, Sidi Mansur.
* " Brown Girl in the Ring" (1978) is a traditional Caribbean nursery rhyme and uses an arrangement from Malcolm's Locks "Brown Girl" (1975).
* " Nightflight to Venus" (1978) with its characteristic drums, the rock guitar theme, and the march interludes, was rewritten from Cozy Powell's No. 1 hit "Dance with the Devil" (1974).
* " Rasputin" (1978) features a melody line present in both a Serbian ("Ај, русе косе цуро имаш") and Turkish traditional ("Üsküdar'a Gider İken / Kâtibim").
* " He Was a Steppenwolf" (1978) borrows arrangement-wise from The Temptations' lengthy epic " Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" (1972).
* "Dancing in the Streets" borrowed the arrangement from the Bee Gees' " You Should Be Dancing" and the hookline "Keep on dancing in the streets" is melodically similar to The Beatles' "What's the word I'm thinking of" "( The Word)"
* " Hooray! Hooray! It's a Holi-Holiday" (1979) is a rewrite of " Polly Wolly Doodle".
* "Gotta Go Home" (1979) was a rewrite of German band Nighttrain's "Hallo Bimmelbahn" (1973), while the middle-part 'Doo-doo-doop, doo doo doo doo doop' (sung by Farian in his head voice) was borrowed from The Beatles in Hello, Goodbye (1967) as 'hey-la, hey helloa'.
* " No More Chain Gang" (1979) borrows the bridge 'Then one night he laid in waiting' from folklore "St. James Infirmary Blues" and an arrangement inspired by Johnny Wakelin's "In Zaire" (1976).
* " I'm Born Again" (1979) is based on the Irish traditional "Buachaill Ón Éirne".
* "Children of Paradise" (1980) is based on Younès Mégri's "Leïli Twil" (1973).
*Both " Boonoonoonoos" and "Ride to Agadir" (1981) contain a theme taken from Pink Floyd's " Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)", " The Happiest Days of Our Lives" and " Run Like Hell" (1979).
* " Train to Skaville / That's Boonoonoonoos" (1981) is partly inspired by the No. 1 hit Pop Muzik (1979) by M (the walking bass, the rap parts, and 'Boo-Boo-Boo-Boonoonoonoos' – 'Pop Pop Pop Muzik').
* " Homeland Africa (Ship Ahoy)" (1981) borrows the chorus and lyrics from The O'Jays' " Ship Ahoy" (1973).
* " I'll Be Home for Christmas" (1981) borrows not only the title from the well-known Christmas song but also a theme from Don Williams' " Some Broken Hearts Never Mend" (1977) and also has a strong resemblance to Jona Lewie's " Stop the Cavalry" (1980).
* " Exodus (Noah's Ark 2001)" (1984) features a guitar theme borrowed from The Temptations' " Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" (1972) while the chorus borrows from Bob Marley's " Exodus" (1977).
* " Wild Planet" (1984) is based on Hungarian rock band Omega's "Ajanlott Utvonal" (1982)
* " Future World" (1984) is based on Hungarian rock band Omega's " Tízezer lépés" (10,000 Steps) (1969).
* " 10 000 Lightyears" (1984) is based on "Theme From "The Persuaders"", the TV series theme song by John Barry (1971).
* "Somewhere in the World" (1984) borrows 'mood wise' from Paul McCartney's " Tug of War" (1982), and in specific the chorus line "In another world".
* " Bel Ami" (1984) features an arrangement and brass intro very similar to Mezzoforte's "Garden Party" (1983).
* " The Alibama" (1984) is reworked from a South African standard "Daar kom die Alibama".
* " Living Like a Moviestar" (1984) features a flute theme from Jeff Wayne's " The Eve of the War" (1978).
* " Eye Dance" (1985) is based on Herbie Hancock's "Doin' It" from his album Secrets (1976), written by Melvin Ragin and Ray Parker Jr.
* " Todos Buenos" (1985) borrows elements from Titanic's "Sultana" (1971) and " Mas Que Nada" by Jorge Ben (1963), the latter made famous by Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 (1966).
* " Sample City" (1985) features the same chord pattern as " I Can't Stand the Rain" (1973), the Ann Peebles classic and a 1978 hit single for Farian's soul band Eruption.
* " Bang Bang Lulu" (1985) is a traditional folk song.

See also

* List of best-selling music artists

References

External links

The Magic Of Boney M
– Unofficial website with discography, history, biography and more.

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