High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ten Thousand Lightyears is the seventh studio album by Boney M. and the first to feature new member Reggie Tsiboe who had taken over Bobby Farrell`s role as the band`s leading man in early 1982. The first single to emerge from new recording sessions in 1982 was a cover version of The Seekers 1965 hit "The Carnival Is Over" backed with Jimmy Cliff`s "Going Back West" in June 1982 - "The Carnival Is Over" had an ominous ring to its title, being the first Boney M. single not to enter the German Top 20, peaking at a disappointing #41, and prompting Hansa to send out a new mix of "Going Back West", promoting this as the A-side.