MILLI VANILLI - Blame It On The Rain (US video version)

1989

http://sonymusic.de/Milli-Vanilli

http://millivanilli-bio.narod.ru

http://musicline.de/de/artist/MILLI+VANILLI

In November 1998, the English language magazine Main City (a FAZ publication) published a critically written report on the demise of the Milli Vanilli artist Robert Pilatus under the title 'When the Music Stopped...' " When Robert Pilatus, 32, was found dead in his hotel room in Friedrichsdorf near Frankfurt in April (1998), it was the end of a drawn out downward spiral, hastened by humiliation and drugs." In addition to the term humiliation, the author also noted that "Pilatus' fall from the top of the pop world was steeper than any that had ever occurred before." "A music industry intent on proving its legitimacy in the face of scandal virtually erased Milli Vanilli from its playlists and its history." None of this corresponds to what really happened - neither the humiliation saga, nor the Milli Vanilli finale. Milli Vanilli were never removed from music history. The Grammy was returned, but that is the only true element of the report. And the scandal, which happened just as Farian had predicted, cost Farian neither fame nor money - with the exception of the 400,000 dollars he donated by way of compensation. The real Milli Vanilli catastrophe was neither commercial nor musical.
It was Robert Pilatus's death from a drug overdose. But this, practically a suicide in instalments, was not provoked by drugs and humiliation, but rather through drugs alone, which, in the excessive way in which Pilatus took them, resulted in humiliations which Pilatus had brought upon himself - he turned a deaf ear to any help or advice he was offered. In lucid moments he himself took the blame for his fate.
To reduce the fact of sales of over one hundred million albums into humiliation is as absurd as it is adventurous. Both Pilatus and Fabrice Morvan, signed up by Farian in 1987 in Munich, came into a lot, a whole lot, of money for the first time. But Pilatus turned it all into drugs. All attempts at rehabilitation, which devoured huge sums of money (which always came from Farian) for nothing Pilatus began to doubt himself. And one thing followed another.
..taken from frankfarian report (1999)

http://frankfarian.com

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[sanayarich]

it doesn't matter what they did the music was nice and brings back good memories! too bad one of them had to die, bc he couldn't cope with what happened to his career :(

[permanent0midnight]

I feel so bad.  They got raked over the coals for this. Now, everybody samples everybody else's music. I agree, they didn't sing hit, but does Britney?

[TRILLxNxMOBx4EVA]

15 ppl blamed it on the alcohol !

[40calfmj]

@maddykhach3434 20 yrs

[charliemurphie1]

@sanayarich so sad and true,,,,i couldnt agree with you more!!!

[wcpaulk]

even though it was a isync... still brings back memories...isnt that what its about?

[maddykhach3434]

how old is this band?'

[palpatine17]

The girl in this clip is such a good actress too.

[lauracrown1]

i don't care, but i still like this song.. n they were so hot!

[Gonk]

Who was the real dude?

[gion370]

I SAY THAT AS A BROTHER,FRIEND AND SOUL PARTNER IN MUSIC FAB TURNED HIS BACK ON ROB WHEN HE MUST NEEDED HIM...HE SHOULD'VE STUCK WITH HIM THREW THICK AND THIN..I GUESS THAT ROB HADED A BETTER APPEARANCE THAN FAB COMMERCIALLY SPEAKING..---HEY YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT IS IN THE MIND OF THE BE-HOLDER...

[bananabob0]

does it matter if they lipsing? Even if you saw them in concert you atleast see them in person.

Plus the day they were in concert and they were lipsinging could of been there first time lipsinging