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'.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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'.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Boney M
Elizabeth "Liz" Mitchell, the voice of pop reggae super group Boney M, lived ...
Record album. The fifth to be released by Bob Marley and the Wailers on Island Records.
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Born Kilburn. Priest and liturgist. Canon of Westminster Abbey, author of the Parson’s Handbook and the Oxford Book of Carols. An early advocate of the ordination of women to public ministry but no...
A socialist song, written by Jim Connell. (supposedly on a train journey between Charing Cross and New Cross). It is the anthem of the British Labour Party, and is usually sung at the end of their ...
Concept, Community / Clubs, Music / songs, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous
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