Group Told to Drop "By the Rivers of Babylon" from concert
When the 1970s disco group Boney M performed in Ramallah this week, the band was prevented from performing one of its biggest hits.
Lead singer Maizie Williams [pictured] said Palestinian concert organizers told her not to sing "By the Rivers of Babylon." The song's chorus quotes from the Book of Psalms, referring to the exiled Jewish people's yearning to return to the biblical Land of Israel.
(AP)
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When the 1970s disco group Boney M performed in Ramallah this week, the band was prevented from performing one of its biggest hits.
Lead singer Maizie Williams [pictured] said Palestinian concert organizers told her not to sing "By the Rivers of Babylon." The song's chorus quotes from the Book of Psalms, referring to the exiled Jewish people's yearning to return to the biblical Land of Israel.
(AP)
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