De Duitse producer Frank Farian had het trucje al eerder gedaan met de band Boney M. Farian zong nummers als ‘Daddy Cool’ en ‘Rivers of Babylon’ zelf in en frontman en danser Bobby Farrell playbackte de liedjes. En toch trapt de hele muziekwereld er in de jaren negentig weer in. Farian heeft de hit ‘Girl you know it’s true’ klaarliggen en vindt twee dansers, Fab Morvan en Rob Pilatus, bereid om als playbackend uithangbord voor de band Milli Vanilli te dienen.
Beide worden meegesleurd door het succes en de roem, maar als het bedrog aan het licht komt en ze zelf hun Emmy moeten inleveren is, het pijnlijk om te horen hoe snel Farian afstand neemt en ze aan hun lot overlaat.
When Frank Farian first laid eyes on Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan, he saw everything he wasn’t. They were handsome, young, and Black. But Frank had something they didn’t. He had power.
So, Frank offered them a devil’s bargain. Almost overnight, Milli Vanilli’s debut album went five times platinum and scored a Grammy nomination. But when the lie at the center of their success started to unravel, Rob and Fab would discover the hard way the difference between star power and real power.
From Wondery, Blame It on the Fame is a story about the lie that shot to #1 and what it cost to tell the truth. Hosted by Amanda Seales.
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In this special episode, Aricia Skidmore-Williams speaks with director-writer Simon Verhoeven and actor Tijan Njie about the making of the Milli Vanilli biopic “Girl You Know It’s True” and why we love to watch our idols fall.
Special thanks to Wiedemann & Berg Film, creators of the Milli Vanilli biopic “Girl You Know It’s True.”
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