@simonp Not even close. Boney M was Frank "Milli Vanilli" Farian's love child. Genghis/Dschingis Khan sprang from the foreheads of the Meinunger/Siegel tag team who considered the ESC their personal fiefdom (viz. Les Humphries Singers, Katja Epstein, Lena Valaitis, and most notably, Nicole)...
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philipnareike
..which do you prefer?
thisismymistake
So Leonard Cohen mashed the two to create his own version of Hallelujah. Crafty...
simonp
Genghis was clearly a close cousin of Boney M's Rasputin according to this video
thisismymistake
@simonp Not even close. Boney M was Frank "Milli Vanilli" Farian's love child. Genghis/Dschingis Khan sprang from the foreheads of the Meinunger/Siegel tag team who considered the ESC their personal fiefdom (viz. Les Humphries Singers, Katja Epstein, Lena Valaitis, and most notably, Nicole)...
simonp
@thisismymistake well, I'm happy to bow to your scholarly Eurovision knowledge Oliver but he's got the beard, he's got the moves...
thisismymistake
@simonp Of course in those circles one can never completely exclude the possibility of inbreeding...
Avante
When I grew up both Hallelujah and Genghis Khan were standards of radio.. so I grew up on this, which explains a lot.... :P
PartyTearsFew
I'm guessing you all had sweepstake euro parties? I had Latvia at one time and made a pickled herring starter which obviously went down well.