Any fan of 80’s knows the story of Milli Vanilli, the pop music project created by Frank Farian in 1988. The actual vocals on the record were done by Charles Shaw, John Davis, Brad Howell and twin sisters Jodie and Linda Rocco. Farian didn’t feel the singers were visually marketable though so he hired Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus to “front” the group. Their debut release went to number 1 on the US Billboard Album charts and the Canadian charts; it sold over 6 million copies in the US alone. It also produced five chart-smashing hits. The “group” skyrocketed to international fame that included the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1990, and then their world crashed down upon them when it was revealed that the two front men did not actually do the lead vocals on the record and would lip-synch in all public performances and videos. The Grammy was subsequently revoked. All of this was detailed in VH-1’s
Behind the Music series.
Despite all of the deceptions, I actually enjoyed Milli Vanilli's debut record which in the US came out in 1989 as the album
Girl You Know It’s True. Since my blog most often focuses on music, I want to do just that - look at the tracks that made up this record.
