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Reproduced from Guardian 10 January, 1999
Television - Friday 15th January
by Tom Hibbert
Malcolm McLaren wanted Bananarama to record something titled `Don't
Touch Me Down There, Daddy' but they thought that that would embarrass
their mums. They recorded a lot of rubbishy pop instead and thus became
Britain's most successful girl group ever. The Spice Girls are catching
up, but you'd never catch La Spicelies being all stroppy and
argumentative on day-time telly, would you? The Bananarama story is
told, well, some of it, tonight on Young Guns Go For It (BBC2, 11.15pm)
in reasonably appealing fashion. But there's a lot missing. Paul Cook,
the Sex Pistols' drummer who encouraged the gels to form a group in the
first place, refused to appear in this weeny docudrama. And I, who, from
my days as a popular music journalist, recall sprawling in a drunken
stupor across a New York hotel bed with Keren Woodward, am shockingly
absent, too. Lots of music-industry blokes pop up to say how the gurlies
couldn't sing for toffee. Damn fools those music bods. As Sara Dallin
(the tall, blonde one) says tonight: `We never said `We're great
singers', we just said `This is it, take it or leave it'.'
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