The Jamaica Observer’s Entertainment Desk concludes its month-long feature titled ‘Cover Me Good’. The series looked at songs covered by Jamaican artistes which became hits. Rivers of Babylon by ...
When iconic Seventies disco group Boney M rocked Ramallah this week, the local music festival prevented the band from performing one of its biggest hits. Lead singer Maizie Williams said Palestinian ...
Maizie Williams said she was asked by the Palestinian organisers not to sing the group's 1978 hit, a song originally written in 1970 by the Jamaican reggae group, The Melodians. The song's chorus ...
“You’re going to make me cry, that’s awesome,” exclaims Boney M singer Liz Mitchell, blown away by a packed theatre of nearly 4,000 Vietnamese fans bellowing the lyrics of Rivers of Babylon back to ...