Truly a guy I thought would have a Eurovision connection, but no. Probably because a consistent rule in the history of Eurovision is that the people singing have to physically be on stage, and Frank Farian's most notable projects involved misleading the public as to who was singing.

I am a huge Boney M fan, but you have to be aware that the people who were pictured on the albums and featured in the music videos were not all singing on the records. Out of the four "members" of Boney M, only two actually sang on their recordings. Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett provided the female vocals, while the male vocals would be provided by, yes, Frank Farian.

Maizie Williams (that's Maizie with a Z not Maisie with an S) and Bobby Farrell were mostly just there to look pretty. Which makes sense once you realise that they were all hired to look pretty. When the first Boney M song, Baby Do You Wanna Bump was released, Boney M was just Frank Farian. Then he hired the members of Boney M for TV.

This was apparently common at this point in the 1970s. The Todd in the Shadows video on Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes is interesting for talking about this. Edison Lighthouse didn't exist when they released their first song, either. And it didn't stop after the 70s.

Which brings us to the Frank Farian's other big project: Milli Vanilli. Milli Vanilli was a duo from Germany who had a few big hits between 1988 and 1990. They won Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards. And then there was a huge scandal: it turned out that Milli Vanilli weren't singing. The two guys who everyone saw, were not singing. They were just pretty faces, lip syncing in every appearance, while a completely separate pair of singers recorded the music.

When I was growing up, we used to watch the X Factor as a family. And my dad would constantly accuse people of miming. As a kid I believed him, but in hindsight these allegations were ridiculous because let's be honest, a lot of the singing on that show was pretty rough. So when I heard about the Milli Vanilli controversy, I didn't get why it was a big deal. Apparently everyone mimes? Then I got it, because it wasn't them singing, so they were lying to everyone. But now, it seems like an overreaction? Their Grammy got revoked, the only time this has ever happened.