"Exclusive for the first time in television - the contract which has
betrayed the whole pop world (the contract between MiliVanilli and Frank
Farian the producer).
Thursday, 2pm, Waldfriedhof (cemetery) - the funeral of Rob Pilatus. He
died alone, to his funeral there came some 100 people. So called friends
as alcohol and drugs Rob Pilatus had plenty of them. The scene says
farewell. Behind the funeral expression all those who hasn't been there
for 7 years (as friends etc.). Speechless desperation of his sister. Not
many words spoken by his producer Frank Farin (meant in a way he might
not care about the circumstances at all). Frank Farin said at the
funeral: Rob will remain in mind/ thoughts a long time. The relationship
(between them) was very intense.
The relationship was very intensive and full of hate. The pact with the
devil is a symbol which Rob Pilatus used to describe the contract with
Frank Farin. The contract which started the career of MilliVannili 1988.
A contract with guarantees.First guarantee: The company (company of Frank Farian) obliged to record at least 10 songs every year with the artist.
SECOND GUARANTEE WHICH WAS SEEMINGLY
NOT NOTICED BY ROB PILATUS:
The company decides if one of the recordswill be published or not.This means he may sing, but hisrecords have not to get published.
His
manager Karsten Heinz tells a bitter conclusion:
Frank Farin gave him
at the moment his signed the contract 2000 Mark (old currency, today
something around 1000 Euro) and they practically sold their soul for
2000 Mark to Frank Farin.
That they got in a tight spot (have the head in a sling?) they did not
suspect.
They are happy, they never had so much money before.
Rob
Pilatus the boy from the children home in Oberammergau (south of
Munich), given up for adoption by his parents.
In this garden he played. His stepsister Carmen Pilatus remembers how
they got him from the children home: I looked at him and knew it like it
was yesterday, showed with my finger at him and said - Mother take him.
I really had the feeling when I was a kid that this is a garden with
many children and we are going to buy one, but they were there to give
away. This was really my feeling that I am really able to choose one of
the children there.
Family Pilatus gives him love and protection. But behind the garden
fence the child of an GI (soldier) and a german woman is the eternal
misfit. His stepsister tells: He got 5 Mark (like 2-3 Euro today) for
stroking his hairs or they put him in a trash bin. Something rad like
this. This were things which damaged his childhood. There was never a
chance again to indemnify something.
He wants to be a singer, but even on the top (of his career) with
MiliVannili he is just a puppet, the strings are pulled by Frank
Farian.
Carsten Heyn the manager of Rob Pilatus says: He (Frank Farian) had
never the purpose to let them sing. Of course he tried to tell the outer
world, the record stores, the media that the two really had sung and
that they will continue singing on new records.
THERE ARE DOCUMENTS WHICH TELLS THAT
FRANK FARIAN INVITED ROB AND FAB TO
COME IN THE STUDIO IN 1990 TO RECORD
FURTHER LP´S (SONGS) .
And they came, and sat there in a
hotel in Frankfurt (Germany) waiting but Frank refused to record with
them.
The weeks which where before the big bang. Rob and Fab revolt. Later it
gets official that both of them were tried to silence by Frank Farian.
While the trials there was an explicit agreement that the suitors Rob
and Fab had to omit any activities to reveal to the public that both of
them are not the real singers.
On the surface there was party, but behind the scene there was a clash.
Its about a lot of money. 62 million sold LP´s and maybe a lot more
selling will follow. And it is also about self esteem.
Rob and Fab hire
the star attorney Axel Mayer Wölben, later known as the consultant of
Boris Becker. The attorney holds a gun to Frank Farians head (he creates
pressure on him): My clients are not tolerating that the second
MiliVanili album will be released without their contribution.
Frank Farian is cornered. On the top of the fame of Milli Vannili at the
grammy awards in LA he plans the end of Milli Vannili.
Frank Farian tells: In the moment I sat in the hall (at the grammy
awards) and heard - and the winner is Milli Vannili - I saw the future
problems like big mountain which is rolling over everything (destroying
everything). There has never been such a big success by an artist which
allegedly had sung which hadn't sung (he corrected himself a second
afterwards). Such a big success would have caused really big troubles. I
had to free myself from this.
Frank Farian frees himself from this. He let end Milli Vanilli with Rob
and Fab in front of the whole world.
Robs stepsister remembers this time
with scare. She says: It was awful for my brother, it was awful for the
family, it was really awful. A whole bunch of CD´s were rolled/damaged
by bulldozers. The people who bought CD´s were able to give them back
and get a new one from another artist. For Rob it was really sad, he was
done with everything.
Milli Vannili, Rob and Fab, the guys from the disco scene of Munich were
discarded. Fab disappeared in California and Rob did so in the drug
scene - final destination psychiatry. Robert Pilatus says: No new chance
for us to rehabilitate and we really suffered from this. And from this
fall I never did really recover until now. The adopted child was hidden
on his weakest point.
Heidi Müller (psychologist) says: This was a deal, the people planned
this together and somebody had pulled his strings/ his might / let the
puppets dance. And this is also a downer. And this guy (Rob) had alot of
downers, and this downers are really hard to recover from. He really
believed in him (Frank Farian), he (Frank Farian) was like a father
symbol for him (Rob). Alot of artists do this to get security. And in
case this security gets damaged it is really hard to recover.
Rob Pilatus did not recover from this. The up and downs were to big.
Ridiculed as a adopted child, fallen as a superstar, silenced as a
singer, died as a drug victim. The bad end of a true fable.
Moderator conclusion: The munich disco stars Robert and Fabrice got
shortened to Rob and Fab. Not only by their names but also by their
personalities they got castrated. They could have been quiet about it.
They could have earned millions and inherited fame. That they revolted
against this lie, that they wanted more as the unemotional silence let
them almost be sad heroes, 8 years later.
End
Source:
Rob Pilatus Death 1998 -
The Truth About Milli Vanilli-
MilliVanilliFanclub YouTube Account -
Thanks to Max Mutzker for translation
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