Boney M – The Greatest Hits Tour

Get your dancing shoes and move with the groovy tunes as German disco legends, Boney M, return to NZ roads next month!

The Boney M Greatest Hits Tour kicks off in Dunedin heading to Christchurch, Hamilton, Tauranga, Napier followed by their lively performances in Rotorua, Wellington and Auckland. Boney M were a phenomenon in the 70s, and to this day, their hits - ‘Daddy Cool’, ‘Ma Baker’, ‘Rivers of Babylon’, ‘Rasputin’- are still the life and soul of the party.

Kiwi fans are so thrilled to have legendary Boney M take the stage again that an additional show was added in Whangarei.

With 18 Platinum and 15 Gold LPs, more than 200 Gold and Platinum Singles to their name, the disco legends have sold a mind-blowing 150 million records worldwide and continue to play live, today announcing an eight-date tour of New Zealand.

Boney M’s remarkable journey began after German record producer Frank Farian recorded the single 'Baby Do You Wanna Bump?' In 1974 he created Boney M to support the song, bringing in four West Indian vocalists who had been working as session singers in Germany - Marcia Barrett, Liz Mitchell, Maizie Williams and Bobby Farrell.

Their first appearance in Germany was a performance of the song ‘Daddy Cool’ in the then important and famous TV-Show Musikladen in 1976, which led to around 100,000 singles per week flying off shelves and the astounding success of their album 'Take The Heat Off Me'.

In July 1976, ‘Daddy Cool’ became the first Number 1 for Boney M in Germany and in December 1976, it hit the Top 10 in the UK. That same year in Germany, the follow-up was a remake of Bobby Hebb's ‘Sunny’, which hit Number 1 in December 1976, and Number 1 in the UK in March 1977.

The hits continued to roll out throughout the remainder of the 70s - ‘Rasputin’, ‘Painter Man’ and ‘Hooray! Hooray! It’s a Holi-Holiday’ both becoming Top 10 hits, while ‘Mary’s Boy Child/Oh My Lord’ was a Christmas chart-topper, becoming the fifth biggest-selling single in UK history.

Don’t miss your chance to see one of the greatest disco acts ever!