Masquerade

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Bananarama announced that two album launch shows would take place at London Lafayette on 3 and 4 August 2022. [7] [8] The second single released from the album on 12 August is "Forever Young". "Running With the Night" will be released as the album's third single on 14 October. The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 1 August 2022". The ARIA Report. No.1691. Australian Recording Industry Association. 1 August 2022. p.6. In October 2011, Bananarama performed at Retrolicious 2011 in Singapore, together with The Human League and Belinda Carlisle.

After O'Sullivan's late-1991 departure, Dallin and Woodward continued Bananarama as a duo, with further top-30 hits including " Movin' On" (1992), " More, More, More" (1993), " Move in My Direction" (2005), and " Look on the Floor (Hypnotic Tango) (2005)". Masquerade is the twelfth studio album by English musical duo Bananarama. It was released on 22 July 2022 as part of the band's 40th anniversary celebrations. Kaye, Roger (31 October 1984). "Culture Club, Duran Duran, Police lead second invasion". Pittsburgh Press . Retrieved 13 November 2017. 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. During 1982 and 1983, Bananarama did several promotional US press tours and TV appearances the first being on The Uncle Floyd Show and on American Bandstand and Solid Gold. Success in the United States came in 1984 with a Top Ten hit " Cruel Summer".

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Velvet Lies’ talks of leaving it all behind and forgetting the person that makes you feel like no other, continuing the album’s message of empowerment. “You can lift me up, but it’s not enough.” Amen. No wasted tears here, quite literally –“I’d cry but you’re not worth the tears”. Masquerade" was released on 15 June 2022 as the lead single. [5] [6] The single was added to the B-List of the BBC Radio 2 playlist and made 'Single of the Week' upon release, before moving onto the A-List the following week. In 2001, Dallin and Woodward, who had been frequently working in France, had recorded the album Exotica with the French label M6. The album also included a cover of George Michael's "Careless Whisper", Latin- and R&B-influenced dance songs, and reinterpreted versions of their earlier hits. Sara& Keren reunite with producer Ian Masterson and the result is a tremendously entertaining electro-dance album that sounds both fresh and quintessentially Bananarama. Bananarama release 'Running With The Night' as latest 'Masquerade' single". Retropop Magazine. 16 October 2022 . Retrieved 5 November 2022.

A further single, " I Can't Help It" (which boasted a semi-controversial video featuring the group in a milk bath filled with fruit and half-naked men), was also a hit (UK #20). In 1992, Dallin and Woodward returned as a duo and had a UK top 30 hit with " Movin' On" (UK #24), which was the first single from the 1993 album Please Yourself. Other singles from the album were "Last Thing on My Mind" (UK #71) and a cover of the 1976 Andrea True Connection song "More, More, More" (UK #24). This album was Bananarama's last one on London Records. 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. The collection includes the rare George Michael remix of " Tripping on Your Love", among others. Archived copy". Archived from the original on 9 July 2021 . Retrieved 7 July 2021. {{ cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title ( link) 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.”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. In the wake of the success of "Venus", Bananarama began work on the album Wow! The group's sound successfully shifted towards dance-oriented Europop under the direction of Pete Waterman, but the creative process on the project was often fraught, with Matt Aitken describing the band's contribution to song writing as minimal. [14] Fahey often clashed with Waterman [15] over the direction of the project, while studio tensions commonly centred on a struggle for dominance between Aitken and the trio. [16]

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.

Warburton, Paul (11 August 2012). "Warbo's Word: Olympics day 14". Harrow Observer . Retrieved 19 February 2013. While the production sees them return to Ian Masterson, who produced In Stereo, the soundscape could not be more different. In Stereo saw Bananarama take on a more early noughties vibe, whereas Masquerade faultlessly marries their eighties origins with a contemporary feel. Their connection is evident across the pair’s latest offering and, when it comes to album closer Waiting For The Sun To Shine, they demand you give in to the music and embrace life wholeheartedly. Bananarama hit Benidorm". MSN. 31 March 2011. Archived from the original on 23 January 2010 . Retrieved 21 April 2011.

On 9 July 2012, Warner Music imprint Rhino Records released a greatest hits CD and DVD Collection 30 Years of Bananarama to celebrate the band's 30th anniversary. [27] The album charted at #62 on the UK Albums Chart. On 9 August 2012, the band performed at the men's final of the beach volleyball at the London Olympics. They performed a medley of " Cruel Summer", " Love in the First Degree", and " Venus". [28] 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] Four decades into their career, Bananarama have delivered one of their strongest albums yet and, if ‘Masquerade’ is anything to go by, they have plenty more music left in them! In April 2011, Bananarama appeared on ITV's hit comedy Benidorm and performed " Love in the First Degree", " Robert De Niro's Waiting...", and " Movin' On". [26]Harnessing the energy and attitude of nineties nostalgia act, Steps, Masquerade sees the duo embracing all that they embody while ensuring they stay relevant to a new audience. As a result their latest album is power pop with a melancholic undertone, which boasts echoes of MUNA, Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish. Bananarama’s tenth studio album, 2009’s VIVA, remains their most electro sounding collection to date. It was a collaboration with celebrated producer, composer, songwriter and remixer Ian Masterson, whose credits include work with Girls Aloud, Kylie Minogue and the Pet Shop Boys. 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). Bananarama on Four Decades Together & Whether They'd Ever Call It Quits". Billboard . Retrieved 12 November 2023. 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.