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Bananarama info & bio

Bananarama is an English pop group formed in London in 1980. The group, originally a trio, consisted of friends Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey, and Keren Woodward. In early 1988, Jacquie O'Sullivan replaced Fahey, who went on to form Shakespears Sister. O'Sullivan left the group in 1991, since which time Dallin and Woodward have continued as a duo, with the brief exception of a one-off reunion tour with Fahey during 2017. Their success on both pop and dance charts saw them listed in the Guinness World Records for achieving the world's highest number of chart entries by an all-female group. Between 1982 and 2009, they had 32 singles reach the Top 50 of the UK Singles Chart.

First coming to prominence as vocalists on Fun Boy Three's UK Top 5 hit "It Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)" in 1982, the original line-up with Fahey scored several UK hits, including "Really Saying Something", "Shy Boy" (both 1982), "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye", "Cruel Summer" (both 1983, with the latter becoming a hit again as the remixed "Cruel Summer '89" in 1989), "Robert De Niro's Waiting...", "Rough Justice" (both 1984), "Venus" (1986), which reached No. 1 in the US, "I Heard a Rumour", "Love in the First Degree", and "I Can't Help It" (all 1987), while the line-up with O'Sullivan achieved further UK hits with "I Want You Back", "Love, Truth and Honesty", "Nathan Jones" (all 1988), "Help!" (1989), recorded with Lananeeneenoonoo (comedy duo French and Saunders and comedian Kathy Burke) for the Comic Relief charity, "Only Your Love", "Preacher Man" (both 1990), and "Long Train Runnin'" (1991). Since becoming a duo, the group have had four more UK Top 30 hits with "Movin' On" (1992), "More, More, More" (1993), "Move in My Direction", and "Look on the Floor (Hypnotic Tango)" (both 2005). The original trio also performed on the UK chart-topping Band Aid charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in 1984, while the second trio with O'Sullivan performed on the 1989 Band Aid II version of the song, which also reached UK No. 1. In the US, where they are considered part of the MTV-driven Second British Invasion, they had eleven singles reach Billboard Hot 100 during 1983–1988. They topped the Australian ARIA albums chart in June 1988 with their fourth album Wow! (1987), and earned Brit Award nominations for Best British Single for "Love in the First Degree" and Best Music Video for "Nathan Jones".