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Reproduced from Express & Echo (Exeter) 14 January, 1999
TV Choice
Friday, January 15 Young Guns Go For It: Bananarama ***
(BBC2, 11.15pm) With 12 hit singles and four hit albums, 1980's band
Bananarama remains the most successful girl group in the UK. The Spice
Girls still have a way to go. In Young Guns Go For It, Sara Dallin,
Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward recall what drove them, what kept them
at the top of the charts and how success affected their careers - and
their friendship.
Friends since school days, Sara and Keren met Siobhan when they moved to
London. Encouraged to form a group by ex-Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook,
their first hits - It Ain't What you Do and Really Saying Something were
with the Fun Boy Three.
When Bananarama's independent career took off, the girls were determined
to keep control of their own destiny and refused to be moulded into the
record industry's image of what a girl band should be.
As Sara Dallin says: "We never took ourselves too seriously; we never
said: "We're gorgeous, we're great singers, we're great dancers". We
just said: "This is it, take it or leave it - you either love us or hate
us". The programme also hears from Malcolm McLaren, Terry Hall, Pete
Waterman and record producers Tony Swain and Steve Jolley.
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