In 1984, Bananarama featured on the Band Aid single, " Do They Know It's Christmas?" and were the only artists to appear on both the original 1984 Band Aid and the 1989 Band Aid II versions (Fahey appeared on the 1984 version while O'Sullivan appeared on the 1989 version). On 29 October 2020, Dallin and Woodward released their autobiography, entitled Really Saying Something. Speaking in an exclusive RETROPOP cover feature, Bananarama opened up about how their approach to releasing music has changed over the past decade as they celebrate their latest milestone as independent artists.

Now, as the girls are set to embark on a UK tour, The Greatest Hits Collection is being reissued as a revised and expanded double CD on November 24 th on London Music Stream Limited. In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked them the 94th most successful dance artist of all time. [29] 2017–present: original line-up tour, In Stereo, Really Saying Something and Masquerade [ edit ] Bananarama in 2018 On 19 March 2007, Bananarama's first six studio albums were reissued by Rhino Records on CD with bonus material, including alternative versions, remixes, and B-sides. On 7 May 2007, another best-of collection titled Greatest Hits and More More More was released by Warner Bros. Records. [21] But, you know, for us now, it just seems to sit so well with us. We choose exactly what we do and when we do it.”Sara& Keren reunite with producer Ian Masterson and the result is a tremendously entertaining electro-dance album that sounds both fresh and quintessentially Bananarama. She explained: “Most of our albums and most of our career has been mostly under our control, but there’s always stuff you have to give away to someone else because they’re the people with the money and pulling the strings. In 1990 and 1991, they had top-30 hits with " Only Your Love", " Preacher Man", and " Long Train Running" and their new studio album Pop Life, which featured these singles and a fourth, " Tripping on Your Love", which was released soon after the album. Bananarama are a British pop group formed in London in 1980. The group, originally a trio, consisted of friends Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey, and Keren Woodward. [2] Fahey left the group in 1988 and was replaced by Jacquie O'Sullivan until 1991, when the trio became a duo. 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. [3] Between 1982 and 2009, they had 30 singles reach the Top 50 of the UK Singles Chart. Fahey temporarily rejoined Bananarama in 2017 and they toured the UK and North America between November that year and August 2018.

Bananarama formed in September 1980 when teenagers and childhood friends Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward moved from Bristol to London and met Siobhan Fahey. Dallin and Fahey were studying journalism at the London College of Fashion (University of Arts) and Woodward was working at the BBC in Portland Place. Dallin and Woodward were living at the YWCA and were about to be made homeless until Paul Cook, with whom they had become friends after meeting at a club, offered them a place to live above the former Sex Pistols rehearsal room in Denmark Street, Charing Cross. They took their name, in part, from the Roxy Music song " Pyjamarama". [7]

Bananarama announce 12th studio album, 'Masquearade', release new single 'Favourite' ". Retro Pop Magazine. 29 April 2022 . Retrieved 8 July 2022.