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Track: Give It All Up for Love
Artist: Bananarama
Album: Please Yourself (Collector's Edition)

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Name: Bananarama
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Bananarama was formed in London in 1981 by childhood friends [a=Keren Woodward] and [a=Sarah Dallin] and their friend [a=Siobhan Fahey]. After a debut single produced by former [a=Sex Pistols] member [a=Paul Cook] (reaching #92), they teamed up with ex [a=Specials] member [a=Terry Hall]'s new band, [a=Fun Boy Three]. "It Ain't What You Do", released in February 1982 entered the UK charts at number 4. International success came with their self-titled second album produced by [a=Tony Swain] and [a=Steve Jolley] and the monster hit single "Cruel Summer". In 1986, the women teamed up with UK dance music super-producers [a20942] and achieved number one all around the world, including the US, with their cover of the [a=Shocking Blue]'s classic "Venus". Siobhan decided to leave the trio to form [a=Shakespear's Sister] in 1988. She was replaced by [a=Jacquie O'Sullivan] who had appeared with the original Bananarama line-up in the [a=Eurythmics] video for "Who's That Girl", back in June 1983. In the same year, the band was named by the Guinness Book of Records as the most successful female group in pop history, beating [a=Supremes]. They celebrated by releasing a SAW-produced version of the Supremes' "Nathan Jones". Jacquie left in late 1991. Sara and Keren have since continued as a duo. Following a one-off reunion recording of [a=ABBA]'s "Waterloo" with Siobhan in April 1998 for Channel 4's "Eurotrash" TV series hosted by [a=Jean Paul Gaultier], the duo returned in 2001 with their eighth studio album, [i]Exotica[/i]. In February 2002, Bananarama celebrated their 20th anniversary, joined on-stage by Siobhan. Their 2005 club hit "Move In My Direction" is their first UK single release since 1993. Their 2005 album "Drama" was followed in 2009 with the album "Viva". Siobhan temporarily rejoined Bananarama in 2017 for a one-off tour across UK and North America between November 2017 and August 2018. In 2019, Sara and Keren released their sixth album as a duo, to critical and fan acclaim. They released their joint-autobiography "Really Saying Something" in 2020. 2022 marks Bananarama's official 40th anniversary, which they celebrated by releasing their seventh album as a duo - and twelfth studio album overall - "Masquerade", which has received universally excellent reviews.

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Release: Bananarama - More, More, More
Year: 1993
Genres: Electronic
Styles: House, Euro House

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LYRICS

To all the men I knew before
Old love letters in the drawer
Mean nothing to me no more
Everything that I possessed
Brought me joy and happiness
And everything I worked for

(bridge 1)
I don't need my photographs
No reminders of the past
Next to you there's no contest
Parties and the shallow friends
Social whirl that never ends

(chorus)
Gonna give it up
Give it all up
For your love
Gonna give it up
Give it all up
For your love

How could I know, how could I see
What life had in store for me
What does it all mean
None of this was ever planned
But now fate has played her hand
Dream into reality

(bridge 2)
Now I've got you in my life
To keep, to keep me warm at night
You're everything I need and more
Parties and the shallow friends
The social whirl that never ends

(chorus x 2)

(bridge 1)

(chorus ad lib)