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* MemeticMutation: "Rasputin" is an especially popular song on the internet, that it led to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZzK32Cfcq8 a viral animated video on YouTube]] about Russia's president UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin, which garnered more than 100 million views prior to the original video being taken down.
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** "Rasputin" is an especially popular song on the internet, that it led to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZzK32Cfcq8 a viral animated video on YouTube]] about Russia's president UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin, which garnered more than 100 million views prior to the original video being takendown.down.
** Clips of showing the group's female members singing and sticking to their choreography while Bobby Farrell whirls around the stage became very popular on social media, accompanied by captions along the lines of: "What happens when your mother forces you to include your brother".
** "Rasputin" is an especially popular song on the internet, that it led to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZzK32Cfcq8 a viral animated video on YouTube]] about Russia's president UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin, which garnered more than 100 million views prior to the original video being taken
** Clips of showing the group's female members singing and sticking to their choreography while Bobby Farrell whirls around the stage became very popular on social media, accompanied by captions along the lines of: "What happens when your mother forces you to include your brother".
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** Their version of "Mary's Boy Child" is more well-known to modern listeners than Harry Belafonte 1956 version, the earliest recorded version.
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* MagnificentBastard: "Rasputin" from ''Nightflight to Venus'': Rasputin is "[[TheCasanova Russia's greatest love machine]]", a devilishly seductive charmer who woos women and gains political status with ease. A master orator who sets his sights on power, Rasputin has women fall for him endlessly and he becomes so renowned as to gain the Queen's favor and possibly even sleep with her. After becoming regarded as more important than even the Czar himself, Rasputin is targeted by enemies who try to secretly poison him, however the audacious Rasputin drinks every last drop and shrugs it off, forcing his foes to [[RasputinianDeath shoot him many times before he properly dies]], leaving behind a legacy of terror, charm and lovelorn ladies.
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** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3XcNskAxp0 Ma Baker]]" from ''Love for Sale'': [[DarkActionGirl Ma Baker]] is a dangerous bank robber who carves a crime spree across America. Teaching her four sons to be her skilled accomplices, Ma Baker would rip off countless banks and kill anyone who tried to stand in her way or inform on her, rising to such infamy that she becomes the FBI's most wanted woman. When eventually cornered at her latest heist, Ma Baker refuses to go to prison, and [[DyingMomentOfAwesome goes down in a gunfighting blaze of glory]].
** "Rasputin" from ''Nightflight to Venus'':Rasputin [[UsefulNotes/GrigoriRasputin Rasputin]] is "[[TheCasanova Russia's greatest love machine]]", a devilishly seductive charmer who woos women and gains political status with ease. A master orator who sets his sights on power, Rasputin has women fall for him endlessly and he becomes so renowned as to gain the Queen's favor and possibly even sleep with her. After becoming regarded as more important than even the Czar himself, Rasputin is targeted by enemies who try to secretly poison him, however the audacious Rasputin drinks every last drop and shrugs it off, forcing his foes to [[RasputinianDeath shoot him many times before he properly dies]], leaving behind a legacy of terror, charm and lovelorn ladies.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3XcNskAxp0 Ma Baker]]" from ''Love for Sale'': [[DarkActionGirl Ma Baker]] is a dangerous bank robber who carves a crime spree across America. Teaching her four sons to be her skilled accomplices, Ma Baker would rip off countless banks and kill anyone who tried to stand in her way or inform on her, rising to such infamy that she becomes the FBI's most wanted woman. When eventually cornered at her latest heist, Ma Baker refuses to go to prison, and [[DyingMomentOfAwesome goes down in a gunfighting blaze of glory]].
** "Rasputin" from ''Nightflight to Venus'':
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* HarsherInHindsight: Bobby Farrell died on 30 December 2010 in UsefulNotes/SaintPetersburg... the same date and city as UsefulNotes/GrigoriRasputin in 1916, the subject of one of the band's greatest hits, oddly and eerily enough.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Bobby Farrell died on 30 December 30, 2010 in UsefulNotes/SaintPetersburg... the same date and city as UsefulNotes/GrigoriRasputin in 1916, the subject of one of the band's greatest hits, oddly and eerily enough.
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* MagnificentBastard: "Rasputin" from ''Nightflight to Venus'': [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Rasputin]] is "[[TheCasanova Russia's greatest love machine]]", a devilishly seductive charmer who woos women and gains political status with ease. A master orator who sets his sights on power, Rasputin has women fall for him endlessly and he becomes so renowned as to gain the Queen's favor and possibly even sleep with her. After becoming regarded as more important than even the Czar himself, Rasputin is targeted by enemies who try to secretly poison him, however the audacious Rasputin drinks every last drop and shrugs it off, forcing his foes to [[RasputinianDeath shoot him many times before he properly dies]], leaving behind a legacy of terror, charm and lovelorn ladies.
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* HarsherInHindsight: Bobby Farrell died on 30 December 2010 in UsefulNotes/SaintPetersburg... the same date and city as UsefulNotes/GrigoriRasputin in 1916, the subject of one of the band's greatest hits, oddly and eerily enough.
* MagnificentBastard: "Rasputin" from ''Nightflight to Venus'':[[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Rasputin]] Rasputin is "[[TheCasanova Russia's greatest love machine]]", a devilishly seductive charmer who woos women and gains political status with ease. A master orator who sets his sights on power, Rasputin has women fall for him endlessly and he becomes so renowned as to gain the Queen's favor and possibly even sleep with her. After becoming regarded as more important than even the Czar himself, Rasputin is targeted by enemies who try to secretly poison him, however the audacious Rasputin drinks every last drop and shrugs it off, forcing his foes to [[RasputinianDeath shoot him many times before he properly dies]], leaving behind a legacy of terror, charm and lovelorn ladies.
* MagnificentBastard: "Rasputin" from ''Nightflight to Venus'':
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* CoveredUp: While the original version of "Rivers of Babylon" by The Melodians is still considered a {{Reggae}} classic, the Boney M. version was a huge hit and is much more famous.
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** While the original version of "Rivers of Babylon" by The Melodians is still considered a {{Reggae}} classic, the Boney M. version was a huge hit and is much morefamous.famous.
** Their version of "Painter Man" is much better-known than the original by The Creation.
** While the original version of "Rivers of Babylon" by The Melodians is still considered a {{Reggae}} classic, the Boney M. version was a huge hit and is much more
** Their version of "Painter Man" is much better-known than the original by The Creation.
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* MagnificentBastard: "Rasputin" from ''Nightflight to Venus'': [[UsefulNotes/RasputinTheMadMonk Rasputin]] is "[[TheCasanova Russia's greatest love machine]]", a devilishly seductive charmer who woos women and gains political status with ease. A master orator who sets his sights on power, Rasputin has women fall for him endlessly and he becomes so renowned as to gain the Queen's favor and possibly even sleep with her. After becoming regarded as more important than even the Czar himself, Rasputin is targeted by enemies who try to secretly poison him, however the audacious Rasputin drinks every last drop and shrugs it off, forcing his foes to [[RasputinianDeath shoot him many times before he properly dies]], leaving behind a legacy of terror, charm and lovelorn ladies.
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* AmericansHateTingle: A prominent example, as America was the one country they could never break through in. "Rivers of Babylon" was their only Top 40 American hit, peaking at #30.
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* AmericansHateTingle: A prominent example, as America was the one country they could never break through in. "Rivers of Babylon" was their only Top 40 American hit, peaking at #30.#30, with "Daddy Cool" (#65), "Ma Baker" (#96) and "Mary's Boy Child" (#85) as their only other singles to even make the American chart ("Mary's Boy Child" still gets a few spins in America around the holidays).
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: "Rasputin" and "Nightflight to Venus" both borrowed the rapidly-accelerating drum intro from Cozy Powell's 1974 {{Instrumental}} hit "Dance with the Devil".
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* CoveredUp: While the original version of "Rivers of Babylon" by The Melodians is still considered a {{Reggae}} classic, the Boney M. version was a huge hit and is much more famous.
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* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: "Rasputin" was hugely popular in the Soviet Union in spite of being banned by the authorities at the time.
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* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: "Rasputin" was hugely popular in the [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union Union]] in spite of being banned by the authorities at the time.
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* MemeticMutation: "Rasputin" is an especially popular song on the internet, that it led to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZzK32Cfcq8 a viral animated video on YouTube]] about Russia's president Vladimir Putin, which garnered more than 100 million views prior to the original video being taken down.
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* MemeticMutation: "Rasputin" is an especially popular song on the internet, that it led to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZzK32Cfcq8 a viral animated video on YouTube]] about Russia's president Vladimir Putin, UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin, which garnered more than 100 million views prior to the original video being taken down.
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* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: "Rasputin" was hugely popular in the Soviet Union in spite of being banned by the authorities at the time.
* SignatureSong: Especially well-known for "Daddy Cool" and "Rasputin".
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* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: "Rasputin" was hugely popular in the Soviet Union in spite of being banned by the authorities at the time.
* SignatureSong: Especially well-known for "Daddy Cool" and "Rasputin".
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