Were Boney M the weirdest pop act of all time?

For a spell in the late 1970s there were two pop groups which dominated the UK singles charts – both, coincidentally, vocal quartets from continental northern Europe. But while one, Abba, have since become a billion-pound industry with an apparently permanent hologram-shaped presence on the London concert scene, their then rivals for pop supremacy, Boney M, have almost completely disappeared from public consciousness. And this is a shame because Boney M remain uniquely noteworthy in one field in particular: weirdness.

There are other contenders: Little Richard, the Sweet, Village People, the KLF. But judged by the twin metrics of just how odd they were in tandem with quite how successful they became, I think the case is overwhelming: Boney M were the weirdest mainstream pop act of all time.