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I want to find some disco music from the 80s...that I used to hear at the skating rink! Songs like "Black Street"!

The male compatriots who have just passed their thirties now will hum a few lines, "My sweetheart, please don't leave, the music is melodious, and the drums are accompanied by a good rhythm..." This song was The song that Gao Lingfeng sang as "My Sweetheart" was "Rasputin" from the former West Germany M singing group. Boney M was a very popular singing group in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1977, they became famous with the song "Daddy Cool". The unique disco charm and the popular disco craze in the United States at that time made the band very popular. They are not just a once popular POP band, to some extent they are the epitome and representative of the entire DISCO history. They have eight No. 1 singles on European Charts and three albums in the European market. They were also the first Western performance group to perform in the former Soviet Union. In addition, their performances such as "River of Babylon", "Dream Mom", "Little Rain Shalala", etc. are also familiar to the majority of Chinese music fans.

Boney M was not only a popular disco band in the 1970s and 1980s, but also a legend in the entire disco era. Producer Frank Filin originally founded Boney M in Germany. This band topped the European music charts in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and its series of unique disco songs are still popular today. . Boney M's first song appeared in December 1974. It was a producer who wrote the song "Baby Do You Wanna Bump" under the pseudonym "Boney M". Boney is a hero in a TV series. The song was initially successful only in nightclubs, selling around 500 records a week. The end of 1975: Dutch TV and Discos wanted Boney M to appear on the stage, so they found four black female singers and one male singer to collaborate with Boney M. This was the prototype of the Boney M singing group. The members of the singing group kept changing, and here came the soul Liz McCall, who sang most of the songs. Liz was born in Jamaica and came to Germany in the late 1960s. She joined the singing group Boney M after taking the advice of Hamburg-based producer Machela Barrett. Producer Frank Filling later said: "Even if all the members of the singing group are replaced, it will not cause harm to the singing group, except for Liz." The most famous song sung by Liz is "Babylon" "River of Babylon" (River of Babylon), and "Daddy is So Cool", "Sunny", etc. are also her original songs.

Boney M's first appearance in Germany was in 1976, when he sang the song "Daddy is So Cool" on one of the most important and famous TV shows "Musikladen". Since then, Boney M's weekly single sales have reached 100,000 copies. The album "Take the Heat Off me" containing this song also became popular. In July 1976, Boney M's "Dad Is So Cool" topped the German song charts and reached the top 10 in the UK in December 1976. In the same year, the single "Sunny" also achieved great success in Germany. It ranked number one in Germany in December 1976 and number one in the UK in March 1977. However in October 1977 the song "Belfast" achieved a top 10 hit. In 1978, Boney M's singing of "Babylon River" and "Brown-Haired Girl with a Ring" caused a huge sensation in the European music scene, and the single sales set a record in the history of British records. In the following two or three years, many of their songs occupied a place in various charts around the world.

For the Chinese audience, the spread of Boney M’s songs intentionally or unintentionally represents an era when happy urban young people are moving from isolation to openness. There were no discotheques back then, and young people could not help but desire happiness in themselves. At home, people quietly dance happily to the melodies of songs such as "Babylon River" and "Dad Is So Cool" played on the "Baner Brick" recorder or the dual-speaker recorder. This gave rise to the term "Black Light Dance", and even It became a "spiritual pollution" that was criticized at the time.

However, this disco whirlwind became more and more fierce, and also led to a youth fashion trend. "Disco balls" gradually changed from underground to public, and the term disco has continued from that time to this day.