Despite the band’s relative longevity (nine years together, seven in the public eye), Bananarama rose to fame in a crowded marketplace of phenomenal tunes and battled a reputation of “disposable pop”.

But their self-described “shambolic” image, offbeat (literally) dance moves and unusual format of having three vocalists, along with a punky, don’t-care attitude, won over the British public before the band went on to break America.

The group’s split in 1988 was big and messy. Fahey wanted the band to pursue a weightier style after becoming “obsessed” with The Smiths.

“It was a combination of the fact that, musically, we’d gone absolutely full-on pop, at a time when I was feeling lost and dark and depressed in my life,” she told The Guardian.

The women did not even speak to each other again for 10 years and it wasn’t until a recent get-together that they brought up the possibility of the reunion many thought would never happen.

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