Tragic Love In The 80s: 'Blame It On The Rain' by Milli Vanilli (1989)

Tragic Love In The 80s returns, and this time we've got German pop-dance duo Milli Vanilli for you, and their 1989 hit Blame It On The Rain. Milli Vanilli was a pop-dance group formed by Frank Farian in Germany in 1988, which was fronted by Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus. Blame it on the Rain was released as a single on the group's debut album titled Girl You Know It's True, which was released July 13th, 1989. This group is famous of course for winning the Grammy Award for Best New Artist on Feb. 21, 1990, and then having it revoked when it was revealed that the actual vocals on their records were done by Charles Shaw, John Davis, Brad Howell, and twin sisters Jodie and Linda Rocco. It was a musical controversy that is still discussed to this day, as the Morvan and Pilatus suffered considerable losses in their careers and reputations as legitimate artists, and on April 2, 1998 (one day before the start of new promotional tour by the duo), Pilatus was found dead of a suspected alcohol and prescription drug overdose in a Frankfurt hotel room. So it is a sad story, and many people felt betrayed by them, but I personally don't care. The music industry doesn't allow those great artists who don't also have what is considered to be a "marketable look" as worthwhile ventures, so this is the kind of thing that results fromt that. I still dig the music and applaud the original artists as it still rocks my socks off to this day, besides, don't most of today's big vocalists pre-record and digitally enhance their actual voices for albums and live performances anways??