Basically this guy decided he couldn't live with the accepted and shady practice of dirty ghost music writing and went public. He's no worse than any other who do stuff and get no credit for whatever the ghost writers motive is (wants cash, no fame, whatever.) Shame it wasn't something more important than a couple of gaming franchises like a couple huge music label makers today as it could shake things up a bit. Milli Vanilli would have taken a beating far more in this decade than when they got caught with the greater presence of online writers with no morals and the internet in general.

I think today's public would have been far more sympathetic to Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan than they were in 1990 actually. Those two guys were screwed by the system so hard and nobody really waited to hear the real story. Those two guys were basically homeless breakdancers doing kareoke at nightclubs living day to day when they were discovered by Frank Farian. He promised them if they signed with him they would be given singing lessons to improve their vocals and a series of songs would be written for them based on their image, all they had to do was go out and buy lots of new outfits and have some photoshoots done. It sounded great to them at the time. They had no idea whatsoever that the entire album had been recorded an entire year before by John Davis and Brad Howell, two middle aged studio musicians with wonderful voices and talent, but the looks of two guys that work at waste management. It was not until months after signing with Farian that Milli Vanilli was informed they would actually be a lipsync band, which Farian already had several other lipsync bands going as well. They immediately refused, and Farian said, "Ok, give back all the money then!"

Of course they'd spent it all on the outfits and photoshoots. They were screwed. From there they agreed they would lipsync one album, and then from there be able to record their own music. That didn't happen though. The first album was released in the USA with altered tracks and included the new Diane Warren song, "Blame it on the Rain" which was a major hit in the USA. A second album was then recorded secretly with John Davis and Brad Howell again, with the song "Keep On Running" set to be the title track. It most likely would have been another #1 hit, but the week the single was to be released was when Rob Pilatus' vocal track skipped at a performance being recorded by MTV. They were only able to perform the song once on European television before that happened. At that point Rob Pilatus decided he could not continue on the farce any longer and it was he that personally decided to admit they were a fraud and return the Grammy awards. Pilatus later admitted he knew they were screwed the second they won the Grammy, they had been backstage moments earlier praying they would not win it. Once they won the Grammy, the focus on the group intensified and the rumors spread until the track skipping made it all to obvious, and "The dream was over"