Boney M. - Diamonds (40th Anniversary Edition) (2015)

A 40th anniversary celebration of Boney M. is on the way with the release of Diamonds across a number of formats, including a 4CD+vinyl limited edition box and, in some territories, a three-DVD package.

German record producer Frank Farian created Boney M exactly 40 years ago and the group (fronted by ‘singers’ from the Caribbean) released their first album Take the Heat Off Me in 1976.

The vocal group achieved phenomenal success in the disco years of the second half of the 1970s, especially in Germany where they chalked up an incredible eight number one singles, although they were popular across Europe and in the UK where their cover of Harry Belafonte’s Mary’s Boy Child which was the Christmas number one in 1978.

The new Diamonds collection in its most basic form is a three-CD set that contains rare seven-inch versions of singles across the first two discs (including some unreleased versions) and on the third CD includes modern day mixes and megamixes from the likes of Blank & Jones and other name DJs….

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Tracklist DVD1 - Unreleased TV Performances: ZDF, WDR, BBC Top Of The Pops:

01 Baby Do You Wanna Bump
02 Daddy Cool
03 Sunny
04 Rasputin
05 Brown Girl In The Ring
06 Rivers Of Babylon
07 El Lute
08 Calendar Song (January, February, March…)
09 Gotta Go Home
10 Bahama Mama
11 Children Of Paradise
12 Mary’s Boy Child
13 Felicidad
14 Consuela Biaz
15 Little Drummer Boy
16 The Carnival Is Over
17 Zion’s Daughter
18 Jambo - Hakuna Matata
19 Somewhere In The World
20 My Chérie Amour
21 Young, Free And Single
22 Stories







Tracklist DVD2 - Unreleased TV Megamix + 90 Minutes German Documentary:

01 No Woman, No Cry Brown
02 Girl In The Ring
03 Daddy Cool
04 Sunny
05 Ma Baker
06 Painter Man
07 Gotta Go Home
08 Rasputin
09 Rivers Of Babylon
10 Still I’m Sad
11 El Lute
12 Calimba de Luna
13 Felicidad
14 Happy Song
15 Dreadlock Holiday







Tracklist DVD3 - Unreleased Live Live In Sun City 1984 (Last Concert):

01 Boonoonoonoos
02 Hit-Medley (Daddy Cool / Sunny / Ma Baker / Belfast)
03 Never Change Lovers In The Middle Of The Night
04 We Kill the World
05 Exodus
06 10.000 Lightyears
07 Where Did You Go
08 I Feel So Good
09 Barbarella Fortuneteller
10 Hooray! Hooray! / Calendar Song / I Shall Sing
11 Malaika
12 Still I’m Sad
13 No Woman No Cry
14 Rivers Of Babylon

Live In Poland 1979
01 Rivers Of Babylon
02 Daddy Cool
03 My Baker
04 Brown Girl In The Ring
05 Sunny
06 Hooray Hooray
07 Dancing In The Street
08 Belfast
09 El Lute
10 Rasputin






All thanks go to the original releaser