Bananarama Venus

In 1986, “Venus“ by Bananarama was at the top of the Billboard pop chart. It was the British girl group’s first and only number-one song. “Venus“ also topped the charts in 1970 when it was released by the Dutch group Shocking Blue. The hit by Bananarama made “Venus“ only the fourth song in the rock era to top the charts by two different artists. The others were “Go Away Little Girl,“ “The Loco-Motion,“ and “Please Mr. Postman.“ The Guardian article by Rebecca Nicholson: Bananarama was the biggest girl group of the 80s thanks to their gleefully shambolic pop hits and punk attitude. Then came their ‘painful divorce’. Can Siobhan, Keren, and Sara recapture their glory days? The last time all three founding members of Bananarama were properly together as a band was in 1988 at the Brit awards. They were performing their hit single Love in the First Degree, dressed in black cocktail dresses, flanked by a mini army of topless male dancers,