Pop group. Originally, the group comprised four Jamaican born singers. They achieved world-wide chart success with songs such as 'Ma Baker', 'Rivers of Babylon' and 'Rasputin'.
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Elizabeth Mitchell
Elizabeth "Liz" Mitchell, the voice of pop reggae super group Boney M, lived ...
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Steve Marriott
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Samuel Phelps
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Queen's Hall
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Newman Hall
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Pop goes the weasel
World Wide Words provides the following explanation: Some of the references are now quite opaque, but we can take a fair shot at a few. In the second verse, the City Road was, still is, a well-know...
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