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"Love in the First Degree" is an uptempo pop tune similar to many hits produced by SAW during this era. The lyric, composed by Siobhan Fahey and built upon by SAW and Bananarama members Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward, describes a dream in which they find themselves being tried in court for love.
Bananarama are an English pop group formed in London in 1980. The group, originally a trio, consisted of friends Sara Dallin , Siobhan Fahey , and Keren Woodward . [ 2 ] Fahey left the group in 1988 and was replaced by Jacquie O'Sullivan until 1991, when the trio became a duo.
The song is one of several composed by Bananarama at the time which lyrically addressed "serious" topics. The song was written about Thomas "Kidso" Reilly, the band's road manager and brother of Fahey's boyfriend Jim Reilly (drummer of the Northern Irish punk band Stiff Little Fingers), who was shot and killed by a British soldier in Belfast in August 1983. [2]
The Greatest Hits Collection is a Bananarama videos compilation released by London Records in 1988, as a companion video to their Greatest Hits album. The video differs slightly from the album—"More Than Physical" is not included on the album; the video to "Love in the First Degree" includes group live performance from 1988 BRIT awards (last performance ever with Fahey); and "Mr. Sleaze" is ...
"Love, Truth and Honesty" is the only Bananarama's single to give a songwriting credit to new member Jacquie O'Sullivan, [1] and was also the last single Bananarama would write with SAW as a trio. [1] Speaking of the subject matter of the song, Keren Woodward noted, "The single’s more bitter than it appears on the surface. It's not 'Hey!
English group Bananarama have released 12 studio albums, two live albums, 16 compilation albums, two extended plays, 51 singles (including three as a featured artist) and four video albums. Albums [ edit ]
An extended version of the song is available on the 12-inch single. The B-side of both 7-inch and 12-inch singles is a song called "Push!". The version of "Push!" on the 12-inch single is not extended but preceded by an unlisted alternate version of the brief track that would be called "Link" at the end of side one of the Bananarama album ...
On all editions of The Greatest Hits Collection, the included version of "Trick of the Night" is now known as the 'Tricky Mix 7" Edit'. While the 1999 international re-release included the 7" version of Preacher Man from the Pop Life album, most variants of the CD release contain some version of the following track listing: "Venus" "I Heard a ...