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Frank Farian

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Music Producer

The Resume

    (July 18, 1941-January 23, 2024)
    Born in Kirn, Germany
    Birth name was Franz Reuther
    Producer/songwriter
    Assembled the groups Boney M, Far Corporation, Milli Vanilli, La Bouche and No Mercy
    Produced the West End musical 'Daddy Cool' (2006)

Why he might be annoying:

    He started by fronting Frankie Farian and the Shadows, covering American R&B and soul hits.
    His label forced him to record German 'oompah pop' songs, which he hated so much that he went into production.
    He recorded most of the vocals on Boney M's records himself, including doing the 'female' background vocals in falsetto.
    He got into a legal dispute with the performers who appeared in public as Boney M over ownership of the band name.
    He allegedly threatened Charles Shaw and banned Shaw from his studio after Shaw revealed that he was one of the actual singers on Milli Vanilli's records.
    He eventually admitted that the two guys seen on Milli Vanilli's album covers, in their videos, and in their concert appearances were lip-synching to tracks by session singers, resulting in the group losing its Best New Artist Grammy and a whole bunch of lawsuits in the US claiming consumer fraud.
    The Los Angeles Times described him as looking like 'an overgrown Dennis the Menace.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    'Der Spiegel' estimated that acts that he produced had sold over 850 million records worldwide.
    An Arista Records executive called him 'a creative genius' even after the Milli Vanilli shit hit the fan.
    At the height of the Milli Vanilli controversy he noted, 'Read the American press and you'd think I'm more important than Saddam Hussein.'
    He paid the cost for Milli Vanilli frontman Rob Pilatus's six-month stay in rehab.

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 69 Votes: 68.12% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 77.78% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 11 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 73 Votes: 54.79% Annoying