They became internationally hot property when hits Cruel Summer hit the US Billboard Top 10, with their video filmed in NYC, I Heard a Rumour No.4 ,Venus No.
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They went on to support everyone from Iggy Pop to Paul Weller (Weller went on to pen a track for the bands first album) appearing on numerous tv shows while still being so skint they were using the baths at the local swimming pool for £1 a throw.įor the next ten years the girls were everywhere and so were their hits. One early radio play from legendary DJ John Peel was all it took to catch the attention of ex Specials singer Terry Hall who tracked the girls down and asked them to perform on The Fun Boy Three single It Ain’t what you do. He ended up producing their first single Aie A Mwana. About to be thrown out of the YWCA for ‘keeping late hours’ Sara and Keren bumped into ex Sex Pistol Paul Cook in the club Taboo and he offered them a place to stay above the the Sex Pistols old rehearsal room. Sara and Siobhan were studying journalism at the London University of Arts (London College of Fashion) and Keren was working at the BBC.
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They have released 10 albums and sold 30 million records.Ī singular talent for directing their own fate Bananarama formed 35 years ago in London when teenagers and childhood friends Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward met Siobhan Fahey. Two Band Aid appearances, an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most successful female band worldwide with the most charting singles, all of which were international hits, four hitting the US Billboard Top 10 including a No.1 with Venus. Bananarama - The Greatest Hits Collection (Collector Edition) (2017)Ĩ Really Saying Something – 2:42 – with Fun Boy Threeġ2 It Ain’t What You Do It’s the Way That You Do It * – 2:48 – with Fun Boy Threeġ3 Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye) – 3:28Ģ2 Really Saying Something – 7:57Ģ3 Shy Boy – 7:20Ģ4 Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye) – 4:51Ģ5 Robert De Niro’s Waiting – 5:42Ģ7 More Than Physical – 8:46Ģ9 Love in the First Degree – 7:15ģ0 I Can’t Help It – 6:33ģ2 Cruel Summer – 5:17īananarama celebrate their 35th anniversary in 2016 and their achievements speak for themselves.