Milli Vanilli 'WE WERE SO NAIVE'

A NEW DOCUMENTARY SEARCHES FOR THE TRUTH BEHIND ONE OF POP MUSIC'S GREATEST LIES

One minute, Milli Vanilli were there and the next minute they weren’t,” says Julie Brown, a former MTV personality in new documentary Milli Vanilli.

It was 1988, and Fabrice Morvan and Robert Pilatus were dancers plucked from the German club scene by music executive Frank Farian and transformed into music’s hottest new act, Milli Vanilli. What the world didn’t know was that the stars fronting huge global hits like ‘Girl You Know It’s True’ and ‘Blame It on the Rain’ were actually lip-syncing.

“There is not another story like this in pop music history,” Brown adds. It was a charade that lasted two years.

“Becoming friends was inevitable,” says Morvan. “It was like big brother, little brother.”

The pair worked as backup dancers when they were noticed by Farian – the producer behind Boney M, one of the biggest disco groups of the 1970s. “We realised this could be the one we’ve been waiting for,” Morvan says with a smile.