0:00:04 > 0:00:07# Young guns having some fun
0:00:11 > 0:00:15# Young guns having some fun
0:00:15 > 0:00:19# Young guns, go for it
0:00:20 > 0:00:23# Young guns, go for it Young guns! #
0:00:30 > 0:00:33INTRO TO: "Venus"
0:00:36 > 0:00:41# Goddess on the mountain top Burning like a silver flame... #
0:00:41 > 0:00:49We never took ourselves too seriously. We never said we were great singers or dancers.
0:00:49 > 0:00:52We just said, "Take it or leave it."
0:00:52 > 0:00:54# ..She's got it... #
0:00:54 > 0:01:02Their success was beyond anybody's wildest dreams. They became the biggest girl group in the world
0:01:02 > 0:01:06and had the most hit records in the world.
0:01:06 > 0:01:12They were white, bolshy. They had bits of punk rock attached to them.
0:01:12 > 0:01:16Girls looking to be tough, sexual, fashion, beasts.
0:01:16 > 0:01:19# I heard a rumour
0:01:19 > 0:01:22# Yes, I did... #
0:01:22 > 0:01:26They were impossible - a brick wall.
0:01:26 > 0:01:32You could not... If they didn't want to do it, they didn't do it.
0:01:32 > 0:01:35In the aftermath of punk,
0:01:35 > 0:01:41three girls with no obvious qualifications decided upon a career in pop music.
0:01:41 > 0:01:46 They spent the next seven years taking on the music industry.
0:01:46 > 0:01:50One of the most successful British girl groups ever,
0:01:50 > 0:01:54they almost lost their friendship in the process.
0:01:54 > 0:01:57This is the story of Bananarama.
0:01:57 > 0:02:04We were in girl gangs when we were 12 or 13 and, one by one, each of us was broken friends with.
0:02:04 > 0:02:09There was a point when no-one was speaking to Keren. I liked her,
0:02:09 > 0:02:15- so I went up to your house... - In secret.- Yeah, in secret.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18We made a pact that we'd be friends for ever.
0:02:24 > 0:02:31As soon as I left school, I left home because I wanted to start living.
0:02:31 > 0:02:36I really felt like I was living in this suburban, grey kind of tomb.
0:02:36 > 0:02:41I'm an adventurer, really. I wanted to start having adventures.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44The great thing about London is
0:02:44 > 0:02:51it is the refuge of the misfit. So when I moved to London, I met kindred spirits.
0:02:51 > 0:02:54I spotted Siobhan across the room.
0:02:54 > 0:02:59She looked very similar to me. She had long, black crimped hair.
0:02:59 > 0:03:04So I thought, "There's the girl that's gonna be my friend."
0:03:04 > 0:03:09I wanted to come to London and I had no idea what I was going to do,
0:03:09 > 0:03:13so I phoned up the BBC and asked them for a job...
0:03:13 > 0:03:20And she went all dressed up to the interview and they said, "We've got a right cracker starting!"
0:03:20 > 0:03:27- And then I had my hair cropped... - And dyed purple.- ..and didn't look a cracker again for a long time!
0:03:27 > 0:03:35So I came up with my mum to find somewhere to live. My mum had phoned up the YWCA
0:03:35 > 0:03:38and got me a space in a shared room there.
0:03:38 > 0:03:43I got Sara a place when she moved up about a month later to go to college.
0:03:43 > 0:03:47I phoned up the BBC because I thought it sounded glamorous.
0:03:47 > 0:03:54When I got here, I found it was with the finance department, having been impressed with my maths results.
0:03:54 > 0:04:02They invited me to join the pensions department, which really wasn't what I had in mind.
0:04:02 > 0:04:06Unfortunately, my career in television never took off.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10# I am an Antichrist
0:04:10 > 0:04:13# I am an anarchist... #
0:04:13 > 0:04:16Keren and I bumped into Paul Cook in a club.
0:04:16 > 0:04:23We were living at the YWCA and, one Sunday morning, we got this message over the Tannoy...
0:04:23 > 0:04:26- As you did!- Glamorous(!)
0:04:26 > 0:04:30..saying Paul Cook's in Reception.
0:04:30 > 0:04:35"Paul Cook from the Sex Pistols?" Being ex-punks, we were SO excited!
0:04:35 > 0:04:39We ran downstairs, and there he was.
0:04:39 > 0:04:47When we got thrown out of there, he had a rehearsal room in Denmark Street and said we could live there.
0:04:48 > 0:04:53- Very smart! Very swish now! - Even the courtyard's cleared up!
0:04:55 > 0:04:58It's so different.
0:04:58 > 0:05:03- The rehearsal room. - This was all cobbles.
0:05:03 > 0:05:07Hang on. Hang on, it's still here.
0:05:07 > 0:05:09It's still here!
0:05:09 > 0:05:12But look how clean it is now.
0:05:12 > 0:05:18- We lived here for a year and... - This was all we had.- It didn't flush.
0:05:18 > 0:05:24- You can imagine how attractive that was.- That's more information than we needed to know.
0:05:24 > 0:05:29- This was the rehearsal room.- There were no windows here.- No windows.
0:05:30 > 0:05:36It was just a black, padded cell, originally, I think.
0:05:37 > 0:05:43I'd given them a place to nestle, a place to live in the heart of Soho.
0:05:43 > 0:05:48I answered an ad in the Melody Maker in those days,
0:05:48 > 0:05:52for a place for the Sex Pistols to camp out and practise,
0:05:52 > 0:05:56a place like a Dickensian rabbit hole.
0:05:56 > 0:06:03When the Pistols split up, Paul Cook and Steve Jones formed a band called the Professionals.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07They used to rehearse in there, and we'd rehearse with them.
0:06:07 > 0:06:12They'd allow us to do backing vocals and taught us a few guitar chords
0:06:12 > 0:06:17so we could play along with a couple of the tracks that they did.
0:06:17 > 0:06:24That's where we got the idea of Bananarama from - just doing backing vocals.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27Paul suggested we get a group together.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30So that's what we did.
0:06:30 > 0:06:34# Aie a nwana
0:06:34 > 0:06:37# Dina quela que tu... #
0:06:37 > 0:06:43It was Aie A Nwana, which is an old Swahili song sung by a group called Black Blood.
0:06:43 > 0:06:49- That's really where it all started. - Paul came and produced it for us.
0:06:49 > 0:06:53Yes, bless him! But he refused to be in this film!
0:06:55 > 0:07:00It wasn't long before they came to the attention of Terry Hall
0:07:00 > 0:07:06who emerged from the ruins of the Specials in 1980 to form the Fun Boy Three.
0:07:06 > 0:07:09I was looking at the Face magazine
0:07:09 > 0:07:12and saw a tiny photo of three girls
0:07:12 > 0:07:19who looked scruffy and said they were a band. They didn't look like a band. They looked scruffy.
0:07:19 > 0:07:22I tracked them down and we met up.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26He's cripplingly shy. So were we.
0:07:26 > 0:07:30So we sat there like that, and he sat there like that.
0:07:30 > 0:07:37And, um, he said... We said, "We're not singers or anything."
0:07:37 > 0:07:42And he said, "Yeah, I know." "That's all right, then." "OK."
0:07:42 > 0:07:48They'd made a record, I think, with Paul Cook - Aie A Mwana.
0:07:48 > 0:07:53I've never said that right, ever. Maybe it's right now.
0:07:54 > 0:07:58I thought the record was quite good. I don't know...
0:07:58 > 0:08:01At a similar time, bands like...
0:08:01 > 0:08:07Malcolm McLaren was doing stuff and Bow Wow Wow were doing stuff with African influences,
0:08:07 > 0:08:10either with clothes or drumbeats.
0:08:10 > 0:08:16They just seemed appealing because they didn't seem like they could do it.
0:08:16 > 0:08:22But we felt the same. We were... We didn't think we could do it either.
0:08:22 > 0:08:30We start off with the Fun Boy Three and Bananarama with It Ain't What You Do, It's The Way That You Do It.
0:08:31 > 0:08:35They were very funny and they were very nervous and...
0:08:35 > 0:08:38they couldn't sing.
0:08:38 > 0:08:41They just couldn't sing.
0:08:41 > 0:08:44It was pretty much two days...
0:08:44 > 0:08:52Every time we'd start the track, they knew where they had to come in, but they just started laughing.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56# It ain't what you do It's the way that you do it
0:08:56 > 0:09:00# It ain't what you do It's the way that you do it
0:09:00 > 0:09:03# That's what gets results
0:09:03 > 0:09:07# It ain't what you do It's the time that you do it
0:09:07 > 0:09:12# That's what gets results
0:09:12 > 0:09:16# You can try hard Don't mean a thing
0:09:17 > 0:09:20# Take it easy... #
0:09:20 > 0:09:23He liked the look of us. Our shoes.
0:09:23 > 0:09:26Yes, he liked our moccasins.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30Style's an important factor for pop groups.
0:09:30 > 0:09:34- Keren had a root perm. - I DID have a root perm.
0:09:34 > 0:09:39# De-doo-doop, doo-doop, doo-doop De-de-doo-doop, doo-doop... #
0:09:39 > 0:09:44He said, "What are you doing for your next single?" "Don't know."
0:09:44 > 0:09:49And they said, "We'll do it with you. What song do you want to do?"
0:09:49 > 0:09:55We'd rehearsed Really Saying Something in the studio we'd been living in...
0:09:55 > 0:09:59And so, that's how we came to cut that with them.
0:09:59 > 0:10:04The next thing, those two singles are released and they're top five!
0:10:04 > 0:10:09And we're suddenly in every pop magazine every week and...
0:10:09 > 0:10:14you know, on Top Of The Pops all the time, but we're still on the dole
0:10:14 > 0:10:19and, er...you know...
0:10:19 > 0:10:25but very recognisable and having to don headscarves to go and sign on. It was funny.
0:10:29 > 0:10:31# He walked me to my door
0:10:31 > 0:10:36- # I agreed to see him once more - Oh, yeah
0:10:36 > 0:10:39- # Lady like it may not be - Doo waddy wah
0:10:39 > 0:10:43# But he moved me tremendously
0:10:43 > 0:10:47# Although he was bold My heart he stole
0:10:47 > 0:10:50# He was really saying something... #
0:10:50 > 0:10:56This is Babington Court where we lived in the early '80s for three years.
0:10:56 > 0:11:02The scene of the writing of our first album and the start of our career, almost.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05When we hit the big time.
0:11:05 > 0:11:11Yeah, we'd fly off club class to America, stay in fancy hotels and come back here.
0:11:11 > 0:11:16We ran our fan club from our front room, managed ourselves
0:11:16 > 0:11:21and we were still signing on because we hadn't got any money!
0:11:21 > 0:11:25# It's a cruel, cruel summer
0:11:27 > 0:11:30# Leaving me here on my own... #
0:11:30 > 0:11:35We used to go there... We would sometimes go to them
0:11:35 > 0:11:41and we'd knock on the door... And they'd be in bed!
0:11:41 > 0:11:46They'd be totally shocked. "What are you doing here?!"
0:11:46 > 0:11:50"We've come to write songs as we agreed." And they'd go, "Oh!"
0:11:50 > 0:11:55Nick said one day, "Malcolm McLaren wants a meeting with you."
0:11:55 > 0:12:00 We went, "Oh, brilliant. OK." Cos we were a fan of the Pistols.
0:12:00 > 0:12:07I think I asked them the question, "What is it you wanna be?
0:12:07 > 0:12:12- "Do you want to be like The Slits? - # Typical boy... #
0:12:12 > 0:12:17- "Or Bucks Fizz?" They were number 1 then. - # Making your mind up! #
0:12:17 > 0:12:24When he finished this great long chat to us, he said, "Oi! You on the end," pointing to Keren,
0:12:24 > 0:12:31- "What did I just say?" It was so embarrassing!- I felt like a stupid schoolgirl who hadn't been listening.
0:12:31 > 0:12:35I'd been drifting off, gazing out of the window.
0:12:35 > 0:12:39And I had to say. "I'm sorry, I wasn't listening." I was mortified.
0:12:39 > 0:12:43I had this sense that they were bolshy.
0:12:43 > 0:12:47At times, you looked at them, they weren't very attractive.
0:12:47 > 0:12:54They almost looked like boys, or one of them did - a girl you wouldn't want to mess around with.
0:12:54 > 0:12:59He wanted us to record a song which he'd written, or was going to write.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02Don't Touch Me Down There, Daddy.
0:13:02 > 0:13:06- I just thought, "I don't think so." - We were horrified!
0:13:06 > 0:13:10I could never sing something like that in front of my mother!
0:13:10 > 0:13:18In hindsight, that was brilliant as well. We just didn't want to be somebody else's product.
0:13:18 > 0:13:23We were doing what we wanted to do. We didn't need other people's ideas.
0:13:27 > 0:13:31It wasn't only Malcolm McLaren's advice they didn't take.
0:13:31 > 0:13:37A complete nightmare. They could never agree about anything.
0:13:37 > 0:13:41They would argue about everything.
0:13:41 > 0:13:48They would get all sultry and look at each other, but they wouldn't actually argue out loud.
0:13:48 > 0:13:55They'd disagree and then, somehow or other, one of them would assert their authority - usually Siobhan -
0:13:55 > 0:14:00and carry the day. The other two would then grumble for the next day.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03Photographs were just a nightmare.
0:14:03 > 0:14:07We used to do all these photo sessions.
0:14:07 > 0:14:11They'd spend hours and hours looking through these photographs
0:14:11 > 0:14:18and, invariably, they'd pick different photographs - and ALWAYS the worst photographs!
0:14:21 > 0:14:23Come on.
0:14:24 > 0:14:28KNOCK ON DOOR Oh, it's open!
0:14:32 > 0:14:36- My bedroom!- Keren's bedroom.
0:14:39 > 0:14:44If your guests wanted the toilet, you had to get your toilet roll out.
0:14:44 > 0:14:48# Are never what they seem... #
0:14:48 > 0:14:53We had a shelf each in the cupboard and a shelf each in the fridge.
0:14:53 > 0:15:00- And no cooker.- Woe betide anyone who picked food off the wrong shelf. You weren't allowed.
0:15:00 > 0:15:04That's where our payphone was that Robert De Niro phoned us on.
0:15:04 > 0:15:10# Robert De Niro's waiting Talking Italian
0:15:10 > 0:15:14# Robert De Niro's waiting
0:15:14 > 0:15:18# Talking Italian
0:15:18 > 0:15:24# Robert De Niro's waiting Talking Italian... #
0:15:26 > 0:15:32We met him in... He knocked on the window, and we didn't know who it was.
0:15:32 > 0:15:37Bobble hat and glasses on. He looked like Benny from Crossroads -
0:15:37 > 0:15:40if that's not dating me.
0:15:40 > 0:15:44# Don't come any closer I don't wanna feel
0:15:44 > 0:15:48# Your breathing, your touching
0:15:48 > 0:15:51# But nothing's for free
0:15:51 > 0:15:56# I never want this to happen to me Don't try to change me
0:15:56 > 0:15:58# You're wasting your time
0:15:58 > 0:16:01# Now I got something... #
0:16:01 > 0:16:05At that time, we'd go in and do a single,
0:16:05 > 0:16:11and, within a week, it was in the charts. That was the way in the '80s.
0:16:11 > 0:16:15That's cos we knew what we were doing in the '80s!
0:16:15 > 0:16:18You know, it seemed so easy.
0:16:18 > 0:16:24The way they sounded like Bananarama was the three voices blended together.
0:16:24 > 0:16:31You took one out, it wasn't the same. They just had this magical sound.
0:16:31 > 0:16:35People have tried to do it since, and failed.
0:16:35 > 0:16:42It was a sing-along. They had attitude, though. You could hear some strength in there.
0:16:43 > 0:16:50There was a sense, that they always had, of keeping control of their own destiny.
0:16:50 > 0:16:55They never wanted to be styled or told what to do.
0:16:55 > 0:17:02So the arguments with the record company created a tension. But it was never, "You will do this!"
0:17:02 > 0:17:07Nowadays, you get the impression that groups do what they're told.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10They're put together by managers.
0:17:10 > 0:17:16Bananarama were nothing like that. They came out of the do-it-yourself punk ethos
0:17:16 > 0:17:22and were determined to keep control over what they did. And they did that.
0:17:22 > 0:17:26By 1984, Bananarama had had six consecutive hits.
0:17:26 > 0:17:33But their next three records didn't make it into the top 20. It was time for a change of direction.
0:17:33 > 0:17:38Everybody here was, "We don't want to do Bananarama!"
0:17:38 > 0:17:45For me, it was bread from heaven. It would be like producing The Supremes. They were my favourite girl group.
0:17:45 > 0:17:50The whole point... The reason they'd come to us,
0:17:50 > 0:17:55which did not become apparent till we'd made their first record,
0:17:55 > 0:17:59was because we'd made Spin Me Round for Dead Or Alive.
0:17:59 > 0:18:01# You spin me right round... #
0:18:01 > 0:18:07And they were huge club fans by the time we started producing Bananarama.
0:18:07 > 0:18:11They were never seen as a club band before,
0:18:11 > 0:18:14but, certainly, by the time that they came,
0:18:14 > 0:18:20we were underground record producers at that time in the gay club scene.
0:18:20 > 0:18:25- The Dead Or Alive one. - That was high-energy, and we'd never done that.
0:18:25 > 0:18:29We loved it! I had this massive adrenaline rush.
0:18:29 > 0:18:32# She's got it
0:18:32 > 0:18:35# Yeah, baby, she's got it
0:18:35 > 0:18:39# I'm your Venus... #
0:18:39 > 0:18:42They wanted it to sound like Dead Or Alive.
0:18:42 > 0:18:48You're adding campness to campness cos it's about the goddess of love.
0:18:48 > 0:18:56So they appear in a video as the devil in red leather... The archetypal gay video of all time!
0:18:57 > 0:19:03They appeared in a video in brides' dresses and leather...
0:19:03 > 0:19:06You're into the realms of pseudomasochism.
0:19:07 > 0:19:12# She's got it Yeah, baby, she's got it... #
0:19:12 > 0:19:19We did it for our own amusement. And it caught on in a big way, particularly in the gay clubs.
0:19:19 > 0:19:24# ..Your desire Well, I'm your Venus ... #
0:19:24 > 0:19:32We forged dance routines that every gay man all over the world knows in their sleep.
0:19:32 > 0:19:38We'd always done it. We were always going round in huge, dramatic style, acting out the song.
0:19:48 > 0:19:52Of course, wherever you go in the world,
0:19:52 > 0:19:59it is the gay friends we'll meet that are very, very affected by what we did
0:19:59 > 0:20:04and really excited to meet us. It's really flattering.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07# ..Well, I'm your Venus
0:20:07 > 0:20:10# I'm your fire At your desire. #
0:20:15 > 0:20:20This is Kentish Town, where we lived after Babington Court.
0:20:20 > 0:20:24We bought three houses next door to each other.
0:20:24 > 0:20:30Rags to riches. Finally, we were getting paid for what we were doing.
0:20:30 > 0:20:37- Were you getting on at this time? - Kind of and not really. It was the beginning of the end.
0:20:39 > 0:20:43No, it was the last resort.
0:20:43 > 0:20:50We always used to drink round the pub, the Malden Arms, every night. That was a bit of a ritual.
0:20:50 > 0:20:56And then, um, I think I started breaking up with my boyfriend,
0:20:56 > 0:21:01and he was best friends with Keren's boyfriend. ..And the rot set in.
0:21:03 > 0:21:10Stock, Aitken and Waterman became THE sound of the mid-'80s with a production line of acts
0:21:10 > 0:21:14including Kylie Minogue, Jason Donovan and Rick Astley.
0:21:14 > 0:21:21Bananarama battled to retain their identity, but cracks began to show in their personal relationships
0:21:21 > 0:21:27and, increasingly, between the girls and their famous producers.
0:21:27 > 0:21:33When you made a track with them, they would tell you what they didn't want before you started.
0:21:33 > 0:21:38"We don't want any of that Stock, Aitken, Waterman stuff."
0:21:38 > 0:21:44You'd go, "Right. You're working with them, but it's the last thing you want." Fine!
0:21:44 > 0:21:52"We don't want to mention the word love." YOU try and write a song that's not got the word love!
0:21:52 > 0:21:55Instantly, you dry up! We spent...
0:21:55 > 0:22:02I'll never forget, it was a Sunday, we spent all day trying to write a song without the word love in it!
0:22:02 > 0:22:07It's impossible! And Siobhan, "I'm not going to sing the word love."
0:22:07 > 0:22:15So you're trying to write about molecules. There's not a lot you can write. So you go back the next day,
0:22:15 > 0:22:18and we say, "You can't do this!"
0:22:18 > 0:22:25We agreed not to write the word love, but we could, sort of, intimate love.
0:22:25 > 0:22:32That loosens it up and, before you know it, you're writing songs about love - Love In The First Degree.
0:22:32 > 0:22:37For some unknown reason, Siobhan looked the other way.
0:22:37 > 0:22:40# Of love in the first degree... #
0:22:40 > 0:22:46I took it very hard - the whole way that Waterman, Stock and Aitken's egos had...
0:22:46 > 0:22:52got to the point where they were quite insultingly naked about...
0:22:52 > 0:22:57um...diminishing our role in our own records.
0:22:57 > 0:23:00That really bothered me.
0:23:00 > 0:23:07Also, we were living round the corner in three houses in a row after coming from Babington Court.
0:23:07 > 0:23:12We'd lived together, we'd managed ourselves, we'd been best mates...
0:23:12 > 0:23:18There were tensions that were starting to emerge within us.
0:23:18 > 0:23:24When we lived in a row... those tensions didn't go away.
0:23:24 > 0:23:31When you're in a band, it's like being married in the sense that, not only are you emotionally involved,
0:23:31 > 0:23:37 but you're creatively involved and you're financially involved.
0:23:37 > 0:23:43Sara and Keren were my whole world and had been for years and years. And I was theirs.
0:23:43 > 0:23:49So it caused...us all to sort of...
0:23:49 > 0:23:52spontaneously combust, in a way.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00Us being the personalities we were,
0:24:00 > 0:24:06we never had screaming rows, we froze each other out. It stopped being fun.
0:24:06 > 0:24:11It had become really painful, you know, for all of us.
0:24:11 > 0:24:18Particularly for me, because those two have been friends from when they were five.
0:24:18 > 0:24:23And, um, it was inevitable, really, and had to happen.
0:24:23 > 0:24:27# Can't you see that I'm lonely... #
0:24:27 > 0:24:31We were up for an award at the BPI awards and we performed.
0:24:31 > 0:24:37I thought it'd be a good farewell. We did this really camp performance
0:24:37 > 0:24:40with an army of greased-up musclemen behind us
0:24:40 > 0:24:48in stockings and knickers, which was very funny. And that was my fond farewell.
0:24:48 > 0:24:53# ..Accused Of love in the first degree
0:24:53 > 0:24:57# Guilty! Of love in the first degree
0:24:57 > 0:25:00# Guilty! Of love
0:25:00 > 0:25:04# Guilty! Of love... #
0:25:04 > 0:25:08We considered continuing as a duo, which we do now.
0:25:08 > 0:25:13- But I think the record company, they saw...- They panicked!
0:25:13 > 0:25:19The whole visual thing was three people, and they wanted a third person.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22# Nathan Jones You've been gone too long
0:25:24 > 0:25:29# Nathan Jones You've been gone too long
0:25:29 > 0:25:32# If a woman
0:25:32 > 0:25:36# Could die of tears... #
0:25:37 > 0:25:42I went into it totally unthinking and threw myself into it.
0:25:42 > 0:25:46It was very difficult, in retrospect,
0:25:46 > 0:25:49to replace Siobhan, in the first place.
0:25:49 > 0:25:54She was a lot of people's favourite Banana,
0:25:54 > 0:25:57and, um, I didn't know that.
0:25:57 > 0:26:01Every interview, wherever you were in the world,
0:26:01 > 0:26:05would be about Siobhan and how I felt about joining the group.
0:26:05 > 0:26:10I was always the new girl right up until the very last day.
0:26:10 > 0:26:15I was the new girl in the group. I could never get over that hurdle.
0:26:15 > 0:26:18I always felt tacked on the end.
0:26:18 > 0:26:22# ..You never wrote me... #
0:26:22 > 0:26:27Siobhan formed the successful Shakespears Sister in 1989.
0:26:27 > 0:26:32They had three top 10 hits, including a number 1, before disbanding in 1995.
0:26:32 > 0:26:40Jacquie O'Sullivan stayed with Bananarama for three years, leaving for a career as a casting director.
0:26:40 > 0:26:47Keren and Sara have continued recording together as Bananarama and have plans for a new album.
0:26:47 > 0:26:51# What you gonna do when the love runs out... #
0:26:51 > 0:26:54# At Waterloo... #
0:26:54 > 0:26:58The three original Bananas were reunited in 1997
0:26:58 > 0:27:04for a television recording of the Alternative Eurovision Song Contest.
0:27:04 > 0:27:10# ..In quite a similar way The history book on the shelf... #
0:27:10 > 0:27:13- It took seven years to resolve. - It did.
0:27:13 > 0:27:19- It's our anniversary today. - It's a year ago today we started talking again.
0:27:19 > 0:27:23That's so weird! Yes, it was a year ago.
0:27:23 > 0:27:29Well, it's my birthday today and, a year ago, I finally, finally felt...
0:27:29 > 0:27:33It was time to let us back in to your life!
0:27:33 > 0:27:38..it was time to reunite as best mates,
0:27:38 > 0:27:42if not musical partners.
0:27:42 > 0:27:44# ..Woh, woh, woh, Waterloo
0:27:44 > 0:27:47# Finally facing my Waterloo
0:27:53 > 0:27:58# My, my! I tried to hold you back But you were stronger
0:27:58 > 0:28:01# Oh, yes
0:28:01 > 0:28:06# And now it seems my only chance Is giving up the fight
0:28:07 > 0:28:11# And how could I ever refuse?
0:28:11 > 0:28:18# I feel like I win when I lose Waterloo
0:28:18 > 0:28:21# I was defeated You won the war... #