Ok I think everyone knows I am greedy but even I couldn’t split the three beauties of Bananarama, Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey, and Keren Woodward and it’s always been the same. God what a date that would be and the big hair as you may know I have blogged before I just love eighties big hair. They came to my attention when they joined Fun Boy Three in "It Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)" single/video but they were all over the music press leading up to the single and after.
The collaboration with Fun Boy Three gave them their first significant mainstream success. Later they joined up with Fun Boy Three again for the single, 'Really Saying Something', around a year later. After their tie up with Fun Boy Three, they released the single "Shy Boy”, and reached fourth in the UK charts it was their second single their first crashed and died that was before the Fun Boy Three releases.
Ok it could be my attraction maybe of a sexual nature but they could sing as well as looking gorgeous even with the wacky dress sense the simple bib and brace sexy tomboyish style of their earlier work. Venus marks a pivotal shift towards a more glamorous and sexual image but still nowhere as over the top of girl bands of today with their tits out
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Venus was always my favourite track and who could forget the various costumes including a devil, a French temptress, a vampire, and a Greek goddess all tastefully done from classy woman. To this day, I can’t understand why in the UK it didn’t top the charts it was eighth beaten to number one by Madonna with Papa Don’t Preach. The Venus video was a smash with the MTV generation in the USA as in was the late nineties before you could view the channel in the UK.
When Fahey left the band the remaining two members added, Jacquie O'Sullivan to the line-up and Bananarama’ s hit streak continued with the addition of O'Sullivan. With a reported lack of input into the group, she decided to leave the group. Dallin and Woodward decided they would remain a duo.
The original line up got together on a couple of occasions for one off events then out of the blue a tour was announced with the original three back together last year.
There was a fanfare of excitement in the media and social media on the news of a tour. They sold out with more added and the concerts received rave reviews. They also when on a short tour of North America again a sell out and after a season of summer outside gigs they will go their own way again with Dallin and Woodward returning to a duo.
Like a fine wine, they are still beautiful having aged well and actually, I like the older wine more than that cheeky younger wine of the eighties.
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