Milli Vanilli — the on-screen faces Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan — took Frank Farian’s reworking of the song to No. 2 in the US in 1989, and it became so tied to them that it named their album. The confusion is unusually deep: not only was the song a cover of Numarx’s original, but Pilatus and Morvan were exposed in 1990 as having mimed to session vocalists. The famous record was, by any honest accounting, not their song and not their voices — only their image.