Bananarama - Venus, Love In The First Degree, Nathan Jones (1988) • TopPop

Bananarama are an English pop group from London formed in 1980 by friends Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward. 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. Between 1982 and 2009, they had 30 singles reach the Top 50 of the UK Singles Chart. The group’s UK top 10 hits include “It Ain’t What You Do...“ (1982), “Really Saying Something“ (1982), “Shy Boy“ (1982), “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye“ (1983), “Cruel Summer“ (1983), “Robert De Niro’s Waiting...“ (1984), “Love in the First Degree“ (1987), “I Want You Back“ in 1988 and “Help“ in 1989. In 1986, they had a U.S. number one with another of their UK top 10 hits, a cover of “Venus“. In total, they had 11 singles reach the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 (1983–1988), including the top 10 hits “Cruel Summer“ (1984) and “I Heard a Rumour“ (1987). They are associated with the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the US. They topped the Australian ARIA albums chart in June 1988 with Wow! (1987),and earned Brit Award nominations for Best British Single for “Love in the First Degree“, and Best Music Video for their 1988 hit cover of the Supremes single “Nathan Jones“. Fahey left the group in 1988 and formed Shakespears Sister, best known for the UK number one “Stay“ (1992). She was replaced by Jacquie O’Sullivan. This line-up had UK top five hits with “I Want You Back“ (1988) and a cover of The Beatles’ “Help!“ (1989), recorded with comedy duo French and Saunders for the charity Comic Relief. They also had further hits with “Love, Truth and Honesty“ and “Nathan Jones“. ’Venus’ written by Robbie van Leeuwen (Shocking Blue) was a number 1 hit for Bananarama in the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland and a no. 8 hit in the UK. In the Netherlands it reached to no. 5. This performance was filmed at the Diamond Award Festival on December 30, 1988 Watch our great music videos ❯ More TopPop? Subscribe here ❯ More info on Wikipedia ❯ Broadcast date: 30-12-1988 This is to let you know that the video recording of the video clip was originally recorded by AVROTROS Broadcasting. AVROTROS Broadcasting hereby warrants and represents that it is the sole and exclusive owner of the physical film and/or videotape footage in this video clip. The performance of the artist(s) in the clip was filmed and recorded with the written consent of the artist(s) and their representatives. AVROTROS is a Dutch radio and television broadcaster, founded in 2014 from a merger of AVRO and TROS. From January 1st, 2014 the name of the merged broadcaster was used in joint programmes. AVRO was founded in 1923 as the Netherlands first public broadcaster. TROS started broadcasting in 1964. Toppop was a weekly AVRO pop program that was aired between 1970 and 1988. AVROTROS Broadcasting PO Box 2 1200 JA Hilversum The Netherlands TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years. World famous music artists performed on TopPop: ABBA, 10CC, Bee Gees, The Jacksons with Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Earth & Fire, Queen, Golden Earring, Boney M, KC & The Sunshine Band, Chic, Donna Summer and many many more.