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They also charted with ' Love, Truth and Honesty' and ' Nathan Jones'. This line-up had UK top-five hits with 'I Want You Back', (1988) and a cover of The Beatles' 'Help!' (1989) recorded with comedy duo French and Saunders for the charity Comic Relief.

ДЇahey left the group in 1988 and formed Shakespears Sister, best known for the UK number one ' Stay' (1992). They topped the Australian ARIA albums chart in June 1988 with Wow! (1987), and earned Brit Award nominations for Best British Single for ' Love in the First Degree', and Best Music Video for their 1988 hit cover of the Supremes single ' Nathan Jones'. The trio performed on ' Do They Know It's Christmas?', a UK chart-topping collaborative charity single released in 1984. They are associated with the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the US. In total, they had 11 singles reach the US Billboard Hot 100 (1983вЂ“1988), including the top-10 hits ' Cruel Summer' (1984) and ' I Heard a Rumour' (1987). number one with another of their UK top-10 hits, a cover of ' Venus'. The group's UK top-10 hits include ' It Ain't What You Do.' (1982), ' Really Saying Something' (1982), ' Shy Boy' (1982), ' Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye' (1983), ' Cruel Summer' (1983), ' Robert De Niro's Waiting.' (1984), ' Love in the First Degree' (1987), ' I Want You Back' in 1988 and charity track ' Help!' in 1989. Between 19, they had 30 singles reach the Top 50 of the UK Singles Chart. 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. Fahey left the group in 1988 and was replaced by Jacquie O'Sullivan until 1991, when the trio definitely became a duo. Formed as a trio in 1980 by friends Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward. A new version of the Beatles' 'Help!' at least provided them with a song that was more distinct than most of the late-'80s hash they received, but it wasn't as compelling a reworking as the others.Bananarama is an English pop duo from London. If they ever felt defensive about the critical slams they received, the fact remains that at this point in the band's career there wasn't much to shout about. Unfortunately, the rest of the SAW-overseen selections do both the band and producers a major disservice, all being pallid and boring revamps of those two songs. 'I Heard a Rumour' isn't bad either, with a catchy chorus and a similar synth sheen. The reworking of Shocking Blue's 'Venus' was a well-deserved success, taking the off-kilter pop/rock of the original and giving it a sparkling dance undercarriage. When it comes to the multi-national smashes produced by Stock, Aitken & Waterman, though, it's not quite a case of the emperor having no clothes as much as a case of SAW being a one-trick pony. The American hits 'Robert De Niro's Waiting' and 'Cruel Summer' show how the trio could balance chart aspirations with atypical singing or subject matter. The Fun Boy Three-produced 'He Was Really Sayin' Something' throws that band's quirky avant-funk underneath the threesome's harmonizing the cover of 'Aie A Mwana' shows off some slightly unexpected Afrobeat chops over a brisk arrangement while 'Shy Boy' takes a more mainstream approach, but without losing its understated sass. Half of this album is actually pretty great, though - particularly the early Bananarama hits. Theoretically, this should be a note-perfect example of commercial '80s pop music at its best.

Bananarama the greatest hits collection cover art