<P> According to VH1's Behind the Music, the single "Girl You Know It's True" was first produced by Jesse Powell and had already been completed before Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan were recruited . Frank Farian felt that no efforts should be made to refine Pilatus and Morvan's voices . Farian added his own studio - augmented voice to recordings, using back - up singers to hide the other two members' live voices . </P> <P> In 2011 Morvan claimed that Farian manipulated the two of them by giving them a small advance when he signed them . The pair spent most of it on clothes and hairstyling . Several months later, Farian called them and told them they had to lip sync to some prerecorded music or, as stated in the contract, repay the advance in full . "We were not hired, we were trapped," Morvan recalled . </P> <P> Beth McCarthy - Miller, then an executive with MTV, says the duo's poor English language skills, when they came in for their first interview with the channel, stirred doubts among those present as to whether they had sung on their records . The first public sign that the group was lip - synching came on 21 July 1989, during a live performance on MTV at the Lake Compounce theme park in Bristol, Connecticut . As they performed, the recording of the song "Girl You Know It's True" jammed and began to skip, repeating the partial line "Girl, you know it's ..." over and over through the speakers . They continued to pretend to sing and dance onstage for a few more moments, then they both ran offstage . According to the episode of VH1's Behind the Music which profiled Milli Vanilli, Downtown Julie Brown stated that fans attending the concert seemed neither to care, nor even to notice, and the concert continued as if nothing unusual had happened . In a March 1990 issue of Time magazine, Pilatus was quoted proclaiming himself to be "the new Elvis", reasoning that by the duo's success they were more talented musically than Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger . </P> <P> Unlike the international release of All or Nothing, the inserts for the American version of the album explicitly attributed the vocals to Morvan and Pilatus . This prompted singer Charles Shaw to reveal in December 1989 that he was one of the three actual singers on the album and that Pilatus and Morvan were impostors . Farian reportedly paid Shaw $150,000 to retract his statements, though this did not stem the tide of public criticism . Because of growing public questioning as to who sang in the group, as well as the Morvan and Pilatus' demand to Farian that they be allowed to sing on the next album, Farian confessed to reporters on 12 November 1990 that Morvan and Pilatus did not sing on the records . As a result of American media pressure, Milli Vanilli's Grammy was withdrawn four days later . However, their three American Music Awards were never withdrawn because the organizers felt the awards were given to them by music consumers . </P>

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