The demo was heard at Demon Records, who consequently offered Bananarama their first deal.

The song was an underground hit and Bananarama were signed by Decca ( later London Records ) and remained on the label until 1993.

The next album, Bananarama ( UK No. 16, US No. 30 ) ( 1984 ) was a more socially conscious effort.

Drama was released in the U. S. on May 16 and after a fourteen year absence, Bananarama was back on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play and the Hot Dance Airplay charts with an import version of " Look on the Floor ( Hypnotic Tango )".

Their usual method for creating the music was to first write the songs, although many of their early acts ( such as Hazell Dean, Dead or Alive, and Bananarama ) often wrote their own material ; next they would record the music with extensive use of synthesizers, drum machines ( drums were often credited to " A Linn ", a reference to the Linn brand of drum machine ) and sequencers ; and then finally bring in a singer solely to record the vocal track.

Waldron became the chief recording engineer and Linn 9000 programmer ( A Linn ) and Harding was the mixer / remixer, working with various artists including Bananarama, Princess, Rick Astley, Hazell Dean, Haywoode, Brilliant and O ' chi Brown.

* Siobhan Fahey, singer in Bananarama lived in Harpenden while she was 14 – 16.

British label London Records had requested the band record the 1983 hit " Cruel Summer " by Bananarama and it was selected as the second European single.

It was used commercially to describe the Stock Aitken Waterman-produced hits by Dead or Alive, Bananarama, Jason Donovan, Sonia, and Kylie Minogue which were heavily based on the British experience with Italo-disco during holidays in Greece and elsewhere.

Deram was briefly revived in the early 1980s, when its roster included Bananarama, The Mo-dettes and Splodgenessabounds.

Blanco y Negro was home to such artists as Bananarama, Everything but the Girl, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Eddi Reader, The Dream Academy, Dinosaur Jr., Sudden Sway, Bernthøler, A House, Catatonia, The Veils and, reportedly, Elizabeth Fraser, former vocalist of the Cocteau Twins.

She was a member of the band Shakespears Sister, along with Siobhan Fahey of Bananarama.

The shoe has since been adopted by subcultures such as indie, ska, punk, new wavers, psychobilly, greasers and goth, Japanese Visual Kei, and was noted as the footwear of choice of Bananarama.

The UK single version of " In Love With Love ," was remixed and produced by the Stock Aitken Waterman production team, who at the time were producing many popular singles in both the UK and the US by artists such as Bananarama, Dead or Alive, Rick Astley, ( and later Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan ).

It was preceded by Madonna's " Papa Don't Preach " and followed by " Venus " by Bananarama.

The NME characterized the song as " a combined force of Bananarama, Betty Boo and Shampoo rolled into one.

Michael claimed to have begun a relationship with model / makeup artist Kathy Yeung around this time, and Ridgeley began one with Keren Woodward of Bananarama.

When covered in 1986 by girl group Bananarama, the song returned to number one in the U. S. and topped the charts in six other countries around the world.

Bananarama are an English female pop band who have had success on the pop and dance charts since 1982.

In The 1980s, Bananarama were listed in the Guinness World Records as the all female group with the most chart entries in the world, a record which they still hold.

Deep Sea Skiving is the debut album by the British female vocal group Bananarama, released in 1983.

* Siobhan Fahey, singer and songwriter of the UK-based groups Bananarama and Shakespears Sister.

The Cover Girls began its musical career in the late 1980s at a time when other American and British girl groups such as Exposé, Bananarama, Seduction, Sweet Sensation, and Company B were scoring hit singles on the pop and dance charts.

In 1990 and 1991, Weston performed remix work for many electronic pop groups including Depeche Mode, Miranda Sex Garden, and Bananarama under the name Thrash.

UK fashion magazine The Face featured an article on Bananarama after the release of their first single.

The only artists from the original Band Aid to be featured again on this version were Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward of Bananarama.

The first, in January and February 1986, featured Bragg, Weller's band The Style Council, The Communards, Junior Giscombe, Lorna Gee and Jerry Dammers, and picked up guest appearances from Madness, Heaven 17, Bananarama, Prefab Sprout, Elvis Costello, Gary Kemp, Tom Robinson, Sade, The Beat, Lloyd Cole, The Blow Monkeys and The Smiths along the way.

It also featured cameo appearances by Hazel O ' Connor, Bananarama ( including Stewart's future wife, Siobhan Fahey ), Kate Garner of Haysi Fantayzee, Thereza Bazar of Dollar, Jay Aston and Cheryl Baker of Bucks Fizz, Kiki Dee, Jacquie O ' Sullivan and the gender-bending pop singer Marilyn, who would go on to musical success of his own that same year.

In 1987 Jenny featured alongside Paul McCartney, Boy George, Bananarama, Kim Wilde, Nik Kershaw and many others as part of the line up for Ferry Aid on the charity single Let it be in aid of the Zeebrugge Herald of Free Enterprise disaster.

The record also featured many big artists of the time, including Sir Paul McCartney, Kate Bush and Bananarama.

) to spoofs on popular music artists ( Madonna, Bananarama, ABBA, and The Corrs being favourites ).

Bananarama passed on both the material and McLaren as their manager.

Summer 2006 saw the Warner Bros. Records release of The Twelve Inches of Bananarama, a compilation of twelve remixes on CD for the first time.

In April 2011, Bananarama appeared on ITV's Benidorm and performed " Love in the First Degree ", " Robert De Niro's Waiting ..." and " Movin ' On ".

She also appeared alongside friend Jennifer Saunders in 1987 for a spoof ' mockumentary ' on Bananarama.

Bananarama went on to make Stock Aitken and Waterman their main producers, and would collaborate with them on some of their biggest hits, including " Love in the First Degree ", " I Can't Help It ", and " I Heard A Rumour ".

He sang " She's a Lassie From Lancashire " on Jimmy Savile's TV show Clunk Click, appeared on a music video for 1980s pop group Bananarama, and sang a duet with Don Estelle in a 1999 re-recording of the Laurel and Hardy song " The Trail of the Lonesome Pine ".

The reformed Bananarama on stage in 2007.

* UK girl group, Bananarama, covered " The Runner " on their album, Viva ( 2009 ).

As a production house they produced hits for English artists such as Rick Astley, Dead or Alive and Bananarama on other record labels.

As a fund-raising charity single for Comic Relief in 1989, Bananarama recorded a cover of the Beatles ' song " Help!

Bananarama released a new single entitled " Love Comes ", and a new album Viva in September 2009.

The song has been covered by many other artists, including 2Play ( 2005 ), Bananarama ( 2001 ) on Exotica album, Brian McKnight ( 2007 ), Kenny G featuring McKnight ( 2004 ) from At Last ... The Duets Album, Boston Pops Orchestra composed by John Williams, Columbia Ballroom Orchestra ( 1994 ), Dave Koz featuring R & B artist Montell Jordan taking the vocal lead ( 1999 ) on the album The Dance, David & the High Spirit ( 2003 ), Del ( 2004 ), Delight ( 2001 ), DJ Irene ( 2003 ), Farhad Besharati ( 2006 ), George Michael ( 1998 ), Gloria Gaynor, Harlemm Lee ( 2003 ), Hit Crew ( 2006 ), James Douglas ( 2003 ), Julio Iglesias ( 2006 ), Jordan Knight ( 2006 ), Katelyn Tarver ( 2006 ), Kenny G ( 2004 ), Kymeria ( 2005 ), Paul Mauriat, Richard Clayderman for his 1988 album ' A little night music ', Roger Williams, Roxy Pain ( 2007 ), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ( 1998 ), Sarah Washington, The Sax Brothers ( 2003 ), Simion Luca ( 1998 ), Skip Martin ( 2006 ), Slinkee Minx ( 2004 ) A on " Closer ( Slinkee Minx song ) | Closer " single, The Shadows ( 1987 ) on Simply Shadows, Barry Manilow ( 2008 ) Tereza Kerndlová and 3Oh! 3 Ft: Juliet Simms of Automatic Loveletter & Alex Gaskarth of All Time Low, The Supervillains ( 2011 ) and sampled by the Paper Route Gangstaz, Sharam Jey ft. James Douglas-Out Of Your Mind ( Club Mix ).

With this album, Bananarama had their first significant U. S. success with the single " Cruel Summer ", which became a top ten hit there ( the song had also been a top 10 hit in the UK in 1983 ).