Boney Magic

Boney M is an incredible band.

Please, everyone, appreciate the brilliance of these two shining ventures into historical fiction (fiction? I can't tell anymore.)


This one is about Ma Baker, who according to wikipedia was "a legendary American alleged criminal from the "public enemy era", when the exploits of gangs of criminals in the Midwest gripped the American people and press," and who according to Boney M "never could cry" but "knew how to die."

This one, my first foray into the world of Boney M almost a year ago, is about legendary sex machine Rasputin, who wikipedia characterizes as "a saintly mystic, visionary, healer, and prophet, and, on the other side of the coin, as a debauched religious charlatan," though Boney M simplifies it by simply telling us "it was a shame how he carried on."