- Breakthrough Hit: "Daddy Cool" in 1976, which hit #1 in a bunch of European countries, made the Top 10 in the UK and also marked their first American chart entry (getting to #65).
- Follow the Leader:
- The early Boney M records were very much in the style of Silver Convention (of "Fly, Robin, Fly" fame), another disco group based in Munich and sharing some of the same session musicians.
- Dschinghis Khan unashamedly followed Boney M's lead with disco records based on historical figures.
- "El Lute" was obviously inspired by ABBA's "Fernando".
- Referenced by...:
- "Rasputin" was played by The Master when he was impersonating Grigori Rasputin in the Doctor Who episode "The Power of the Doctor".
- In Poltergay, "Rasputin" is the favorite song of the give gay ghosts who haunt the house where they perished in The '70s.
- One of the leads of the "Demon 79" episode of Black Mirror patterns himself after Bobby Farrell.
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