Milli Vanilli became one of the biggest pop acts of the late 1980s, then collapsed when the world learned Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan were not the voices on the records.

This episode of Buried By Time looks at the image, the hidden singers, Frank Farian, the Grammy scandal, the lip syncing scandal, the machinery behind the illusion, and the human cost when the fantasy broke.

Credit note: The real studio singers behind the records included Brad Howell, John Davis, Charles Shaw, Jodie Rocco, and Linda Rocco. Their voices helped make the songs famous while Rob and Fab became the public faces of Milli Vanilli.