{"id":1063,"date":"2026-01-14T00:39:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksvantage.com\/demos\/eli\/?p=1063"},"modified":"2026-05-18T22:50:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:50:18","slug":"flashbackmy-12-hours-with-boney-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksvantage.com\/demos\/eli\/flashbackmy-12-hours-with-boney-m\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback:My 12 HOURS with Boney M"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Flashback:My 12 HOURS with Boney M<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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One of the stranger days I had on a show was the 12 hours I spent working a Boney M show. You know them as the singers of disco classics like \u201cRasputin\u201d, \u201cFeliz Navidad\u201d and \u201cRivers of Babylon\u201d, among others. Did you know they are also the #1 most- booked band for company holiday parties? Edmonton was no exception, and mega
construction company PCL flew them in for their holiday party in December 2002, where they played at, you guessed it, RED\u2019S.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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The day ran like any other; cables, catering, random superfans crashing soundcheck (which happens far more often than you’d think), and in the middle of it all, a strange, sweaty, Caribbean & Dutch short king named Bobby Ferrell,Boney M is a god damned MACHINE . After an epic 2 hour sound check and short dinner break, they took to the stage for no less than three hours\u2026of playing the same 5 songs over and Over again including \u201cRasputin\u201d, \u201cFeliz Navidad\u201d and \u201cRivers of Babylon\u201d, which each got played at least 5 times . It was deeply confusing at first until I realized that it’s just \u2026 their thing…That\u2019s just how they do it, and fans eat it up. Through every repetition the army of desk.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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It was deeply confusing at first until I realized that it’s just \u2026 their thing . That’s just how they do it, and fans eat it up. Through every repetition the army of desk jockeys screamed their adoration. I think in the end they played \u201cRasputin\u201d in particular EIGHT TIMES.
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One of the stranger days I had on a show was the 12 hours I spent working a Boney M show. You know them as the singers of disco classics like \u201cRasputin\u201d, \u201cFeliz Navidad\u201d and \u201cRivers of Babylon\u201d, among others. Did you know they are also the #1 most- booked band for company holiday parties?…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksvantage.com\/demos\/eli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksvantage.com\/demos\/eli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksvantage.com\/demos\/eli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksvantage.com\/demos\/eli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksvantage.com\/demos\/eli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1063"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/booksvantage.com\/demos\/eli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1912,"href":"https:\/\/booksvantage.com\/demos\/eli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1063\/revisions\/1912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksvantage.com\/demos\/eli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksvantage.com\/demos\/eli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksvantage.com\/demos\/eli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}