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Frank Farian, who has died aged 82, was a music producer thought to have sold more than 800 million records; he was the brains behind Boney M, whom he guided to pop superstardom with a string of hit singles around the world, many of them written by him; but he was also the brains behind Milli Vanilli, whose career imploded when it was revealed that they had been lip-synching rather than singing their own vocals.

Frank Farian, the German singer, songwriter and producer behind eurodisco hit-machine Boney M, pop duo Milli Vanilli and numerous other...

He confessed that Milli Vanilli had been lip-synching but asked: ‘It was fantastic new music, people were happy, so what’s the problem?’

“Go home, ya Pommy w***ers!”

Frank Farian, the hit-making German record producer who masterminded the model-handsome dance-pop duo Milli Vanilli and propelled them to Grammy-winni

Boney M member Liz Mitchell, who lives in Oxfordshire, has paid tribute to her former band mate Frank Farian who died on Tuesday aged 82.

German music producer Frank Farian - founder of the disco band Boney M - has died at the age of 82, according to his family.

Frank Farian also founded Milli Vanilli and No Mercy.

He never got the reappraisal that Abba did, but with covers of 60s psych, songs about the Troubles and an unerring knack for hooks, the late German songwriter leaves a daring legacy

Boney M was the brainchild of Farian, who put the band together with four singers in 1975.