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Juergen Wind, known professionally as J. Wind or George Torpey, is a German record producer, songwriter and musician who wrote and produced the Real McCoy Platinum and Gold hits "Another Night" and "Run Away" and Maxx hits "Get-A-Way" and "No More (I Can't Stand It) in the mid-1990s.

Early life and education[edit]

Wind started as a ______ before moving into the music industry. In the early days of his career, he was keen to attain success as a ______t, but he made little impact on the popular music scene______, became successful.

Music Career[edit]

1987: Beginnings with Freshline Records[edit]

Shying away from the spotlight, he hired performers to front for public performances. The lead vocals for songs on Boney M. albums in the 1970s were sung by Farian, Marcia Barrett and Liz Mitchell, who quickly became synonymous with the group. Boney M.'s frontman, Bobby Farrell, was only allowed to record vocals in the 1980s (although all four members of the group did sing live for all their concert tours). Bobby Farrell was fired from the group for unreliability in 1981.^{[citation needed]}

1989-1994: European Success[edit]

In 1990, he admitted orchestrating the events which led to the Milli Vanilli scandal, a musical equivalent of ghostwriting. As a producer, he had assembled a group from session musicians, fronting it with visually attractive dancers Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan. The story broke when Farian confirmed to the press that someone else had sung on the records.^[1] After these details emerged, Milli Vanilli had their 1990 Grammy Award for Best New Artist withdrawn, and at least 27 different lawsuits were filed in the United States^[2] under various U.S. consumer fraud protection laws.^[3][4] Following the Milli Vanilli controversy, Farian went on to develop similar Eurodance groups La Bouche and Le Click.

M.C. Sar & The Real McCoy[edit]

Farian also started the supergroup Far Corporation (named after the first syllable of his last name), which featured Steve Lukather, David Paich, Bobby Kimball, Simon Phillips, and Robin McAuley, many of Toto fame. Far Corporation is notable for being the first act to chart with a cover version of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven", becoming a top 10 hit in the UK, reaching number 8 in October 1985.^[5]

Maxx[edit]

Farian also started the supergroup Far Corporation (named after the first syllable of his last name), which featured Steve Lukather, David Paich, Bobby Kimball, Simon Phillips, and Robin McAuley, many of Toto fame. Far Corporation is notable for being the first act to chart with a cover version of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven", becoming a top 10 hit in the UK, reaching number 8 in October 1985.^[5]

1995: Mainstream success with Real McCoy[edit]

In 1986, Farian produced and mixed the Meat Loaf album Blind Before I Stop. He also sang backing vocals on the first single from the album "Rock 'n' Roll Mercenaries", which was credited to Meat Loaf featuring John Parr.^[6]

Some other groups that Farian has been involved with are Eruption (he became a manager in 1977) and No Mercy.

On 15 August 2006, the musical Daddy Cool opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London's West End. The line-up included Michelle Collins, Michael Harvey, Javine Hylton, and singer/songwriter Darvina Plante. The £3 million show was produced by Farian and Robert Mackintosh. The story, written by Stephen Plaice with Amani Naphtali, is predominantly based on the songs of Boney M., but also features songs by Milli Vanilli and No Mercy. A second show opened on 23 April 2007 in Berlin, Germany and the show also toured in the Netherlands^[7] from August 2011 to February 2012, Spain (Palma de Mallorca) in July 2012, Switzerland from, November 2015 to January 2016^[8] Anniversary tour in Germany 2016.^[9]

1997: Real McCoy decline[edit]

Also in 2006, Farian was credited as co-writing a new song, entitled "Doin' Fine", with British producers Nathan Thomas and Carl M. Cox. (Other writers involved in this song were, Chris Rudall, Baz Qureshi, Peter Wilson, Chris Richards and George Reyam.) Described as paying tribute to the 'sound' of Boney M., the song was essentially a brand new composition, which featured the string arrangement from Boney M.'s 1976 number one hit, "Daddy Cool". The song was recorded by Australian pop singer, Peter Wilson.^[10] It was initially released in the UK on 16 April 2007 in its extended format, entitled "Daddy's Cool 12" Mix", charting at number one on the EuroDanceHits EuroNRG Top 40 in May 2007.^[11] The original version of "Doin' Fine" featured on Peter Wilson's debut album, Follow Me,^[12] which was released in the UK on 8 October 2007. The song was also recorded in 2008 by Amanda Lear.

1998-2005: Freshline Records continuation & hiatus[edit]

Other acts he collaborated with include Gilla, Eruption, La Mama, Precious Wilson, Gift and Daniel Lopes.^{[citation needed]}

Album productions[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website
• Musical Daddy Cool - Official website
• Daddy Cool Kids - Official website
• ZZ Queen - Official website
• - FFFclub website
• Eurodanceguy/sandbox discography at Discogs

Category:1941 births Category:Living people Category:Boney M. Category:Entertainment scandals Category:German record producers Category:German songwriters Category:German male singers Category:German pop singers Category:German music managers Category:German expatriates in the United States Category:Milli Vanilli Category:Musical hoaxes Category:20th-century hoaxes