Even in older age they are still beautiful woman. I was a fan then and now. Love their music and as a kid they were my celebrity crush . Cruel summer in 1983 hooked me.
I have loved these girls for almost 40 years. They are a lot of fun. My favorite part of this film was when the record executive was talking about how they disagreed about everything and "just looked at each other." They are hilarious! It was fun to see them in the pub just being themselves.
@@lexkanyima2195 they mostly disagreed with Pete is what Pete means but yeah they had differences that made them better if they were all exactly alike they would not have been as creative
@@lexkanyima2195 I am not talking about that Iam talking music wise also Siobhan had personal issues too that nobody knew about that is why Shakespeare's sister ended abruptly the girls made up that is all in the past no need to dwell on it now they were young and Siobhan needed time on her own they probably will never permanently get back together as a group but they are friends again
@@aprilgosa5779 why does it took 29 years to reconcile ? Even though she have personal problems but there is more detail then that and just look at the Brit Awards felt as a goodbye and it felt rushed just look at the way the rush through the curtain.
It is amazing to know after this documentary Keren and Sara kept going and did 5 albums as a duo between 2001 and 2022, and did a Tour with Siobhan in 2017.
“They were very unattractive girls, they be of them looked like a boy, a a girl you would not want to mess with.” Really? Fourty years on, they are still very beautiful. Siobhan was my biggest girl crush.
@restlessbohemian26 I adore Siobhan, and she was my 12/13/14 year old lust object. Sadly, I've heard from sources that she's a foul human being. She refuses to entertain other women, who have to sit somewhere else while she talks to any male visitor. Weird, I know, but I've been told this by 2 separate people.
He was talking about her looking like a boy, because when she was younger, and had her hair normal, or put back, she had a pronounced jawline, and high cheekbones, so she kinda did have that tomboyish look back then, but she knew how to change her hairstyles, and makeup enough to really bring out her feminine side more, don't forget her dancing was stomping her feet like marching, and was very tiny
Yeah it was just glazed over very quickly lol would have been nice to see all four together but that may have been odd for them as it seemed Sara & keren didn’t have a bond with Jacquie and it was just a job. Unless you are good friends with both individually it’s hard to break into a closed girl friendship. Whenever there are three girls and one falls out with one of the others - it all depends on who’s closest and it’s brutal lol that’s why men have more friends than women I think.
@@Elizalustof The odd thing is that Jacquie was actually closest friends with Siobhan prior to joining, and that's how she got in. Siobhan actually had a hand in Jacquie being the replacement. So if there were anything odd about the four of them being together, the weirdness would likely be most with Keren and Sara; Siobhan and Jacquie would probably get along just fine.
7:13 *Terry Hall!!!* 🍄😑 Don't know why I was still expecting him to have his mushroom hair and ever-present deadpan expression!!!! LOL! Love Terry Hall!! Loved Bananarama since 1983! And forever will love them! 🍌🍌🍌
"I always felt tacked on..." Poor Jacquie can't ever catch a break can she? Even in this documentary she was literally tacked on. Ahh well, Pop Life is a fantastic album.
Jacquie was certainly pretty enough, resembled the others quite well enough, and was obviously competent physically as well...Unfortunately, she was the plantain. Like all plantains, they resemble bananas incredibly closely, but they are not quite the same are they.....The bananas had to stick together, and so the plantain had to go.
When you "replace" someone in an already established group, you are tolerated but never accepted. Look at Cindy Birdsong who replaced Florence Ballard of The Supremes after she got fired in 1967. She joins looks at it as the opportunity of a Lifetime, but is treated as nothing but a glorified backing singer. Today at last report she is an evangelist preaching the word of God.
Post covid they need to get Jacquie back, do an EP,,,hit the road for concerts,,,,fans would go crazy all over again! Pop Life was never properly promoted,,,almost the whole album could be done live!
I'm alway amazed at how a number of singers who became big successfully, never thought of themselves as singers, or they didn't know they could sing. Really a good example of the term "God works in mysterious ways !" And all these girls are definitely a god given gift to humanity. Will always love 'em ❣❣❣
I had no idea they met Glen Campbell, he had quite a career. He was a session musician for Phil Spector, who was part of a group of musicians known as The Wrecking Crew, for a brief moment he replaced Brian Wilson in The Beach Boys then became a successful country singer who worked with everyone from cher to olivia newton john (rip). he also battled addiction but he survived.
I never noticed this before but I feel like there are elements of the way Karen speaks woven into the Ab Fab character Edwina Monsoon. I always loved Siobhan even moreso when she created Shakespear's Sister
They were the first Girl From The UK to do American Bandstand in 1981 and 1985 respectively. They were also the first girl group from the uk to go to number one in the us. they kept it "real". that's why folks loved them so much. they also were heavily influenced by motown because they did their version of he wqas really saying somethin originally done by the velvelettes who like the contours, mabel john, the monitors, brenda holloway and kim weston the acts who were overlooked in motown's history. They were also the only females along with Jody Watlet to sing on do they know it's xmas and jody also sampled he was really saying something during her early years in shalamr. Now Sara's daughter is getting into the game. Her voiice is very much blue eyed soul.
Just like the way Mclaren sounds and his mannerisms is like a females!! Lol It was a punkish style. They were still very attractive and got even more attractive throughout the year’s as many do with maturity and fashion!
Can you IMAGINE if they released a song called "Don't Touch Me Down There Daddy" That is a horrible idea for a song. Jesus! It would have been BANNED for sure!
Melissa Wright especially if done now in 2021 but Yeah they knew it was a stupid idea for a song some of their song had messages but they were in the package of poppy pop songs like Rough Justice I love that song heard it in 2016 thank goodness for youtube also Robert Deniro's Waiting is another one that has a message but also is a good danceable song Hotline to Heaven too I love all Bananarama songs
Well in there last couple of albums in the past few years you can hear keren mostly she proper belts them out but back in the 80s you can hear shiobhan quite a bit on the album's
Minute 20:34......is that Glen Campbell?? There's no question in my mind...these girls did work hard to create their personas and unique sound. I heard them long before they were on terrestrial radio. It was on a local college station that played their early stuff.
How did fans accept Jaccqie O'Sullivan. When Cindy Birdson replaced Florence Ballard in the supremes in 1967 after florence got fired, she was tolerated but not fully accepted. however, cindy was a survivor who did all kinds of jobs. motown employee, x ray technician at UCLA Medical Center who later became an evangelist, sadly enough she suffered a stroke.
Bigger than The Supremes Not in the USA .The Supremes had 12 #1 hits in America including 5 straight.No other American or female group have matched that Bananarama were the first UK female group to have hits in the US.Their biggest being Venus and Cruel Summer
Agreed. "Venus" was a breath of fresh air for them and is a good version of the song overall - however, in hindsight, SAW were already deep into exploiting their own formula through Bananarama and slightly later also through other singers they worked with... Each of their commercial successes post-DOA were downright instant - with a predictable, default trademark sound which always had a great powerful beat to it but generally the songs they produced were just made to make money. Maybe, Bananarama did know what, when and how they wanted but it was inevitable that they too got fed up with SAW's production approach. Look at Pete Waterman in this documentary - the guy knows business and business alone (and the Cuban cigar to go along with it), he's certainly not in it for the art. Just listen to the songs from that era by SAW; Kylie, Sinitta, Jason Donovan, Rick Astley, Mel + Kim, or Sonia to name a few - these songs sound so manufactured, coming straight off the factory line. No wonder why a certain Simon Cowell was desperate to get working with them at the time... Bananarama's early stint with Fun Boy Three actually shows how great and spontaneous they were, their first and second albums are enjoyable because the hits they made earlier on are far more eclectic (and personally, I'll choose "It Ain't What You Do", "Aiye-aewana", "Cruel Summer" or "Really Sayin' Somethin'" at any time over one of of SAW's later crappy productions for the girls). In the context of SAW, the unison voice of Bananarama was still audibly pleasant to hear, but the very music really got in the way and effectively diminished Siobhan, Sara and Karen's role or better, their identity from their own creation.
@@aprilgosa5779 You make it sound as if all people miraculously change accents just because they get older, they were 3 Cockney girls from London, who as of the late 80's talked with a very obvious North London cockney accent, and only 9 years later when this documentary was made they sounded like they were straight out of Oxford University. Only Siobhan was in her 40's in 1999, the other 2 were in their 30's So after 9 years after the 80's ended they sound very posh, it's quite reasonable and simple what i am saying, it has nothing to do with JUST getting older as you mentioned. You have a very naive perspective.
@@halloweenville1 They're NOT Cockney's, Keren and Sara were born in Bristol and Siobhan was born in Dublin. Get your facts right before you start spouting off.
@@aprilgosa5779 I didn't say they sounded different, i said they have a completely different ACCENT. Cockney is so far removed for jolly hockey sticks speech, lol, this is more than simply being a bit older.
More posh girls acting street; but I like them, although largely because their success is wholly implausible. I couldn't finish watching this because there's nothing more off-putting than polite-voiced ex-punks.
The '80s were and will always have a very beautiful and special place in my ❤❤❤❤❤ because of groups like this.
Even in older age they are still beautiful woman. I was a fan then and now. Love their music and as a kid they were my celebrity crush . Cruel summer in 1983 hooked me.
I have loved these girls for almost 40 years. They are a lot of fun. My favorite part of this film was when the record executive was talking about how they disagreed about everything and "just looked at each other." They are hilarious! It was fun to see them in the pub just being themselves.
That's competition
@@lexkanyima2195 they mostly disagreed with Pete is what Pete means but yeah they had differences that made them better if they were all exactly alike they would not have been as creative
@@aprilgosa5779 but there is a reason why Siobahn leaving the group, she can't be isolated like that.
@@lexkanyima2195 I am not talking about that Iam talking music wise also Siobhan had personal issues too that nobody knew about that is why Shakespeare's sister ended abruptly the girls made up that is all in the past no need to dwell on it now they were young and Siobhan needed time on her own they probably will never permanently get back together as a group but they are friends again
@@aprilgosa5779 why does it took 29 years to reconcile ? Even though she have personal problems but there is more detail then that and just look at the Brit Awards felt as a goodbye and it felt rushed just look at the way the rush through the curtain.
It is amazing to know after this documentary Keren and Sara kept going and did 5 albums as a duo between 2001 and 2022, and did a Tour with Siobhan in 2017.
I saw them on the tour with Siobhan
I really became a fan of Bananarama in 2019 but I knew them since the 80s. Their latest album In Stereo is adorable.
But it's tragic how Siobhan left
The coolest girls around. Sitting in a pub smoking. Got to admire them for being ordinary x
Ah Bananarama, a gorgeous girls band with a recognizable sound, and Keren Woodward, the fantasy of my ears and my eyes, love them, love her !!
23:58 nobody thought that Siobhan was leaving the group after the Brit Awards
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I became a fan of Bananarama in 2020 they are the best women int his world of the music, the queens of the pop
best banana doco ever , I've never seen them be so canded about the whole thing !
The music of the early 80's and the lives of their singers were so much fun! They were living the music! What a mess of brilliant fun!
I loved them in 80's. Especially Siobhan.
Most definitely 😊😊😊
“They were very unattractive girls, they be of them looked like a boy, a a girl you would not want to mess with.” Really? Fourty years on, they are still very beautiful. Siobhan was my biggest girl crush.
Siobhan is a classic beauty. She looks like Jessica Lange's long lost sister.
@restlessbohemian26 I adore Siobhan, and she was my 12/13/14 year old lust object.
Sadly, I've heard from sources that she's a foul human being.
She refuses to entertain other women, who have to sit somewhere else while she talks to any male visitor.
Weird, I know, but I've been told this by 2 separate people.
He was talking about her looking like a boy, because when she was younger, and had her hair normal, or put back, she had a pronounced jawline, and high cheekbones, so she kinda did have that tomboyish look back then, but she knew how to change her hairstyles, and makeup enough to really bring out her feminine side more, don't forget her dancing was stomping her feet like marching, and was very tiny
I wish the Jacquie-era and the duo years had been covered more in this documentary.
Yeah it was just glazed over very quickly lol would have been nice to see all four together but that may have been odd for them as it seemed Sara & keren didn’t have a bond with Jacquie and it was just a job. Unless you are good friends with both individually it’s hard to break into a closed girl friendship. Whenever there are three girls and one falls out with one of the others - it all depends on who’s closest and it’s brutal lol that’s why men have more friends than women I think.
@@Elizalustof The odd thing is that Jacquie was actually closest friends with Siobhan prior to joining, and that's how she got in. Siobhan actually had a hand in Jacquie being the replacement. So if there were anything odd about the four of them being together, the weirdness would likely be most with Keren and Sara; Siobhan and Jacquie would probably get along just fine.
7:13 *Terry Hall!!!* 🍄😑
Don't know why I was still expecting him to have his mushroom hair
and ever-present deadpan expression!!!! LOL! Love Terry Hall!!
Loved Bananarama since 1983! And forever will love them! 🍌🍌🍌
bananarama are so amazing
Awesome footage!!! Thanks for posting.
I still have a crush on siobhan fahey since '85 right till now hehe...well now i'm 46 and she is in her late 50s...lots of luv frm Malaysia❤
1st time i heard them was on a record called Now 3 a song called Robert De Niros Waiting.
The best ever British/Irish girl pop group.
The British/Irish Destiny's Child, The Pointer Sisters
Love these girls , so creative
I had a big crush on Keren when I was a kid. She's the original "Posh Spice".
I do find their interactions with each other very amusing. Benny from Crossroads 😂
Just the coolest chicks EVER! ❤
"I always felt tacked on..." Poor Jacquie can't ever catch a break can she? Even in this documentary she was literally tacked on. Ahh well, Pop Life is a fantastic album.
Quite agree, Pop Life is a pure gem, should have sold millions
Jacquie was certainly pretty enough, resembled the others quite well enough, and was obviously competent physically as well...Unfortunately, she was the plantain. Like all plantains, they resemble bananas incredibly closely, but they are not quite the same are they.....The bananas had to stick together, and so the plantain had to go.
When you "replace" someone in an already established group, you are tolerated but never accepted. Look at Cindy Birdsong who replaced Florence Ballard of The Supremes after she got fired in 1967. She joins looks at it as the opportunity of a Lifetime, but is treated as nothing but a glorified backing singer. Today at last report she is an evangelist preaching the word of God.
Love that album too
Post covid they need to get Jacquie back, do an EP,,,hit the road for concerts,,,,fans would go crazy all over again! Pop Life was never properly promoted,,,almost the whole album could be done live!
I'm alway amazed at how a number of singers who became big successfully, never thought of themselves as singers, or they didn't know they could sing. Really a good example of the term "God works in mysterious ways !" And all these girls are definitely a god given gift to humanity. Will always love 'em ❣❣❣
They left out quite a lot of videos. It was surprising that they actually showed "Do Not Disturb" though.
I had no idea they met Glen Campbell, he had quite a career. He was a session musician for Phil Spector, who was part of a group of musicians known as The Wrecking Crew, for a brief moment he replaced Brian Wilson in The Beach Boys then became a successful country singer who worked with everyone from cher to olivia newton john (rip). he also battled addiction but he survived.
I never noticed this before but I feel like there are elements of the way Karen speaks woven into the Ab Fab character Edwina Monsoon. I always loved Siobhan even moreso when she created Shakespear's Sister
I was listening to this at first and thought I heard Jennifer Saunders! 😅👌🏻
Jennifer Saunders used to hang out with these girls and they inspired her, at least in part to write ab fab. I heard her say that in some interviews.
They were the first Girl From The UK to do American Bandstand in 1981 and 1985 respectively. They were also the first girl group from the uk to go to number one in the us. they kept it "real". that's why folks loved them so much. they also were heavily influenced by motown because they did their version of he wqas really saying somethin originally done by the velvelettes who like the contours, mabel john, the monitors, brenda holloway and kim weston the acts who were overlooked in motown's history. They were also the only females along with Jody Watlet to sing on do they know it's xmas and jody also sampled he was really saying something during her early years in shalamr. Now Sara's daughter is getting into the game. Her voiice is very much blue eyed soul.
The best part of this documentary are the clips with Malcolm McLaren.
Sara is my favorite!
Most beautiful Irish name Sobhian!
I'm 25.3 percent Irish, Scottish, and Welsh!
And replaced by another Irish girl; Jaquie Sullivan.
Pete Waterman "You're into the realms of pseudo-masochism..."
Everyone else: "Wait...what?" :D
Terry Hall is a genius
Excellent...!!! Love the Bananas
Great doco...Marc Almond the Narrator
I love these women, so beautiful and still are they're my Crush
proper girls, bloody amazing.
I love how Marc Almond is the narrator of this.
The final show of this series Young Guns, was Soft Cell. its on RUclips too .
Their debut and follow-up were great albums. Fun Boy 3 backed them up on their debit.
They kinda lost me at the “Venus” era
Who is watching now 2023
Me now 2024!!!!!🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
where the hell does Mclaren get that they looked unattractive or like boys when he met them LOL they were always cute and got way gorgeous
They were very boyish when they started out x
@@melissawright1979 Yeah but he said unattractive they were not unattractive they were always pretty girls I saw the photos and old videos LOL
@@aprildannettegosa5381 he said one of them. I wonder which one he means
Just like the way Mclaren sounds and his mannerisms is like a females!! Lol It was a punkish style. They were still very attractive and got even more attractive throughout the year’s as many do with maturity and fashion!
He shouldn't be talking. He looks like a crazy, drunk Weasley uncle
This documentary seems ancient in itself.
That's cuz it was in 1999.
Can you IMAGINE if they released a song called "Don't Touch Me Down There Daddy" That is a horrible idea for a song. Jesus!
It would have been BANNED for sure!
Melissa Wright yeah Malcolm Mclaren had a screw loose for even suggesting such a thing
Melissa Wright especially if done now in 2021 but Yeah they knew it was a stupid idea for a song some of their song had messages but they were in the package of poppy pop songs like Rough Justice I love that song heard it in 2016 thank goodness for youtube also Robert Deniro's Waiting is another one that has a message but also is a good danceable song Hotline to Heaven too I love all Bananarama songs
the girls are better now at 60 than ever before
Seems like the person whose voice I hear most is Sarah Dallin when they are singing,or who is that?
You can hear Siobhan's voice strongly in some of their biggest hits x
Well in there last couple of albums in the past few years you can hear keren mostly she proper belts them out but back in the 80s you can hear shiobhan quite a bit on the album's
Now THATS a beer!😜
Never knew they were so posh!
❤❤❤❤❤
Minute 20:34......is that Glen Campbell?? There's no question in my mind...these girls did work hard to create their personas and unique sound. I heard them long before they were on terrestrial radio. It was on a local college station that played their early stuff.
Bananarama is before my time, I’m trying to figure out if they all just sang and other musicians performed with instruments?
Strange they said that they weren't attractive... I always thought Keren was a total babe...❤️❤️
Confirmation that opinionated people like Malcolm McLaren might be big in the biz, but you can circumvent them on the way to the top...
what year is this documentary from?
1999
I love Bananarama the original trio I didn't care for Jacque or them as a duo
As do I, Bananarama is Keren, Sara and Siobhan, the end.
Today I learned they weren't Australian. Schoolmate in Canada told me that 40 years ago and apparently I was gullible in the days before the nterwebs.
In my defense I'd never heard them speak before.
How did fans accept Jaccqie O'Sullivan. When Cindy Birdson replaced Florence Ballard in the supremes in 1967 after florence got fired, she was tolerated but not fully accepted. however, cindy was a survivor who did all kinds of jobs. motown employee, x ray technician at UCLA Medical Center who later became an evangelist, sadly enough she suffered a stroke.
I love Bananarama and MrPoopface
Bigger than The Supremes
Not in the USA .The Supremes had 12 #1 hits in America including 5 straight.No other American or female group have matched that
Bananarama were the first UK female group to have hits in the US.Their biggest being Venus and Cruel Summer
Sarah & Keren could pass for sisters.
Feminist icons
Seems like they were difficult to work with from the get go
Men always call strong women difficult to work with LOL they knew the direction they were going and they did it
Absolutely but it worked
Terrel CF why because they ran their career their way and weren't slaves to record executive men or they were not brainless
I had no idea they had a gay following.
They love music too!
the day they joined stock aiken waterman they went downhill in my opinion
loved Venus though all their songs actually LOL
Shut up stupid. That was the height of their career and hit making years
@@blogshagify to me none of their songs were bad
Agreed. "Venus" was a breath of fresh air for them and is a good version of the song overall - however, in hindsight, SAW were already deep into exploiting their own formula through Bananarama and slightly later also through other singers they worked with... Each of their commercial successes post-DOA were downright instant - with a predictable, default trademark sound which always had a great powerful beat to it but generally the songs they produced were just made to make money.
Maybe, Bananarama did know what, when and how they wanted but it was inevitable that they too got fed up with SAW's production approach. Look at Pete Waterman in this documentary - the guy knows business and business alone (and the Cuban cigar to go along with it), he's certainly not in it for the art. Just listen to the songs from that era by SAW; Kylie, Sinitta, Jason Donovan, Rick Astley, Mel + Kim, or Sonia to name a few - these songs sound so manufactured, coming straight off the factory line. No wonder why a certain Simon Cowell was desperate to get working with them at the time...
Bananarama's early stint with Fun Boy Three actually shows how great and spontaneous they were, their first and second albums are enjoyable because the hits they made earlier on are far more eclectic (and personally, I'll choose "It Ain't What You Do", "Aiye-aewana", "Cruel Summer" or "Really Sayin' Somethin'" at any time over one of of SAW's later crappy productions for the girls).
In the context of SAW, the unison voice of Bananarama was still audibly pleasant to hear, but the very music really got in the way and effectively diminished Siobhan, Sara and Karen's role or better, their identity from their own creation.
Never bigger than The Supremes.
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They were white WTF!
Ummm... Did you think they were green???
When did they start talking posh, there seemed to be a moment in history where they went from being cockney girls, to head mistresses, it's creepy.
Halloweenville when they started they were averge age 21 or 22 now as of this documentary they are in their 40s? of course they sound different
@@aprilgosa5779 You make it sound as if all people miraculously change accents just because they get older, they were 3 Cockney girls from London, who as of the late 80's talked with a very obvious North London cockney accent, and only 9 years later when this documentary was made they sounded like they were straight out of Oxford University.
Only Siobhan was in her 40's in 1999, the other 2 were in their 30's
So after 9 years after the 80's ended they sound very posh, it's quite reasonable and simple what i am saying, it has nothing to do with JUST getting older as you mentioned. You have a very naive perspective.
@@halloweenville1 They're NOT Cockney's, Keren and Sara were born in Bristol and Siobhan was born in Dublin. Get your facts right before you start spouting off.
They came from being middle class to trying to be working class london girls. Then they grew up
@@aprilgosa5779 I didn't say they sounded different, i said they have a completely different ACCENT. Cockney is so far removed for jolly hockey sticks speech, lol, this is more than simply being a bit older.
they all come across middle class. pretending to be working class. i bet there parents are all well off.
Well said
More posh girls acting street; but I like them, although largely because their success is wholly implausible. I couldn't finish watching this because there's nothing more off-putting than polite-voiced ex-punks.
sad thing is they are fake - if you know them
How ?
Which you dont, so piss off.
Drone you moan for the bone LMFAO 😆
Drone you moan for the bone LMFAO 😆
“They couldn’t sing”, errr they couldn’t dance either.