Bananarama are an English pop group formed in London in 1980. The original trio consisted of friends Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey, and Keren Woodward. In early 1988, Jacquie O'Sullivan replaced Fahey, who later formed Shakespears Sister. O'Sullivan left the group in 1991, and since then Dallin and Woodward have continued as a duo, with a one-off reunion tour including Fahey taking place in 2017. The group has been listed in the Guinness World Records for achieving the highest number of chart entries by an all-female group. Between 1982 and 2009, Bananarama had 32 singles reach the Top 50 of the UK Singles Chart.
Bananarama first gained attention as vocalists on Fun Boy Three's UK Top 5 hit "It Ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It)" in 1982. The original line-up with Fahey achieved several UK hits, including "Really Saying Something" and "Shy Boy" (both 1982), "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" and "Cruel Summer" (both 1983, with "Cruel Summer" later remixed as "Cruel Summer '89"), "Robert De Niro's Waiting..." and "Rough Justice" (both 1984), "Venus" (1986), which reached No. 1 in the US, and "I Heard a Rumour", "Love in the First Degree", and "I Can't Help It" (all 1987). The line-up with O'Sullivan had further UK hits with "I Want You Back", "Love, Truth and Honesty", and "Nathan Jones" (all 1988), "Help!" (1989), recorded with Lananeeneenoonoo for Comic Relief, "Only Your Love" and "Preacher Man" (both 1990), and "Long Train Runnin'" (1991).
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