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Bananarama

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The most successful British girl group in pop history, Bananarama formed in London in late 1981. Drawing equal inspiration for their name from the children`s television program The Banana Splits and the Roxy Music song Pyjamarama, the trio comprised lifelong friends Keren Woodward and Sarah Dallin along with Siobhan Fahey, whom Dallin befriended at the London College of Fashion. After getting their start singing at friends` parties and at nightclubs, they came to the attention of ex-Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook, who produced Bananarama`s first single, a cover of Swahili Black Blood`s Aie A Mwana. After the group backed Fun Boy Three on the single It Ain`t What You Do, It`s the Way You Do It, the three returned the favor for 1982`s He Was Really Sayin` Somethin`, a cover of the 1965 Velvelettes song that was the first of Bananarama`s 26 U.K. chart smashes.

Other early hits such as Shy Boy, Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye), and Cruel Summer, their first U.S. smash, were followed by songs covering more serious topics including the 1984 hit Robert DeNiro`s Waiting. In 1986, Bananarama joined forces with the production team of Stock, Aitken & Waterman, who produced the album Wow!; the group`s most successful outing to date, the LP`s cover of the Shocking Blue`s Venus was an international chart-topper, and both Love in the First Degree and I Heard a Rumour were major hits as well.

In 1987, Fahey left the group after marrying Eurythmics` Dave Stewart; she later found success as one half of the duo Shakespear`s Sister. Woodward and Dallin, meanwhile, enlisted pal Jacquie O`Sullivan, formerly of the Sheilagh Sisters, to fill the void. After a long layoff, the revamped group teamed with new producer Youth to issue the 1991 album Pop Life, which featured a cover of the Doobie Brothers` Long Train Running. Shortly after the album`s release, O`Sullivan too exited, and Woodward and Dallin forged on as a duo for 1992`s Please Yourself and 1995`s Ultra Violet. After a brief hiauts, the group returned with 2005`s Euro-dance-friendly Drama.

Bananarama have remained pop favourites and continue to tour and perform at a wide range of events and venues. In 2008 the girls appeared as part of the Here and Now Tour alongside Kim Wilde, Nik Kershaw and Belinda Carlisle.

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