Nightflight To Venus  by Boney M.

Boney M. themselves were an extremely surreal case of a band, let alone their third studio album, titled Nightflight To Venus, which is a unique example of what Euro Disco is.

In Nightflight To Venus, the unsuspecting listener experiences various shocks. The first shock starts with the cover, where they see the four-member band of Boney M, whose origin is from the Caribbean, hanging from a rope with the rest of the galaxy behind them as they attempt to fly to the planet Venus. From there and on, the album begins with the title track with a countdown, followed by Rasputin, a song dedicated to the Russian Grigori Rasputin, next comes a cover of a British pop hit from the mid-'60s, Painter Man, the second side of the album starts with a cover of a song by the Melodians from Jamaica, Rivers Of Babylon, while the album concludes with a cover of Heart Of Gold by the Canadian Neil Young (!). Behind all of this was the German producer Frank Farian, who managed to combine all the above in a unique way, while in reality, he was also the male voice heard in all the songs, since Bobby Farrell from the island of Aruba, all he did in concerts and video clips was dance and pretend to sing (!).

In Germany, Nightflight To Venus sold 1,000,000 copies, while even in Greece it managed to sell 100,000 copies (!)