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S3 Ep34: The Tour (Jered Threatin)

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Society & Culture, Documentary, History, True Crime

4.610.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A disastrous European tour reveals that an American rock band manufactured an entire fan base. 

Prelude: German R&B duo, Milli Vanilli, is exposed for lip-syncing.

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0:00.0

Here are two former world-class break dancers nominated for Grammys who have become huge international stars with record sales in the millions. Well girl

0:09.4

You know it's true. It can only mean Millie Vanilli

0:14.5

The year was 1990

0:16.7

George Herbert Walker Bush was president

0:19.4

Nelson Mandela was a really stepped to 27 years of imprisonment in South Africa and

0:24.4

and Millie Vanilli a flashy good-looking R&B duo from Germany when the Grammy Awards for Best New Artist.

0:31.3

The group's breakout album Girl You Know It's True which featured a combination of 80s synth pop and hip-hop

0:37.3

had produced three number one hits and sold over seven million copies worldwide.

0:42.2

It was a true rags to reach a story for the two men that fronted the group.

0:46.2

Fab Morvin and Rob Pelatus both in their early 20s met in Los Angeles in 1984

0:52.0

and bonded over their love of dancing. Morvin a former gymnast had taken up dances of former therapy

0:58.9

after entering a vertebrain and trampoline accident a year prior.

1:02.6

Pelatus who had dabbled in modeling and DJing was traveling the world to compete in break-dancing

1:07.3

competitions. The two men continued their friendship when they returned home to Munich

1:12.8

but found it difficult to pay their bills using only their dance skills.

1:16.6

Luckily fate intervened. In the late 80s a successful German record producer named Frank

1:23.0

Ferri and was scouting talent for new project. Ferri was on the lookout for young fashionable men

1:28.8

with model good looks and top tier dancing abilities. As soon as he saw Fab Morvin and Rob Pelatus's

1:34.6

moves the producer knew that the two men fit the bill. Ferri and wrote the songs and pushed Morvin

1:41.4

and Pelatus out onto the stage dressed in long sweaters leggings boots and shoulder padded

1:46.4

power suits and the American audience aided up. The entire country swooned over the exotic dark

1:52.6

scanned European men with the fancy dance moves and catchy songs. Millie Vanillia tapped into the

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