I can't believe my eyes!!! You did a reaction to I Don't Care. Usually when people do reactions to Shakespears Sister it's always Stay and none of their other hits. This is so exciting!!! That is correct. Siobhan Fahey used to be part of Bananarama. She was a founding member and left the band in early 1988. However, Bananarama did not split up. They carried on, firstly with a new third member, Jacquie O'Sullivan, who stayed with the band till 1991 and from there on Bananarama has continued as a duo. The group still exists. Just last year they released their autobiography. About Shakespears Sister, Siobhan Fahey took the name from The Smiths song Shakespeare's Sister. However, the person who designed the band's logo for their first album which was released in 1989, accidentally took out the last "e" in Shakespeare and Siobhan liked it that way because she felt the name now had its own identity. I Don't Care was taken from their second album, Hormonally Yours, the same album where Stay is taken from. I know you didn't ask in the video anything about the references about the nine lives mentioned in the chorus of the song but this is a curious fun fact. Marcella and Siobhan, the members from Shakespears Sister, had this idea of making a film about catwomen on the moon, based on old B-movies of that nature. A few of the songs recorded for this album were gonna appear in this film. However, their record company told Marcella and Siobhan something along the lines of "we're not a film company; we're a record company." For this reason, the movie idea was scrapped but not just in I Don't Care but in a few of the other tracks the references about catwomen and the like were kept in the songs.
Hormonally Yours was my seminal 90s album. 91 was a rough year for artists like Shakespear's Sister, Jesus Jones etc who were trying to break through while grunge was really becoming mainstream in the US.
i love Shakespears Sister - I Can Drive from 1996 shakespears sister - all the queen's horses Shakespears Sister - When She Finds You (feat. Richard Hawley) from when they reformed 2 years ago really hope she reacts to them to
I feel your pain so much as your comment echoes my thoughts exactly with my absolute favourite 80s group, The Thompson Twins. All the reactions of theirs on here are of their biggest hit, "Hold Me Now", but no one ever seems to react to their loads of other hits that were just as good and sometimes better!
"All the Queen's Horses" by Shakespears Sister should definitely be on your list. It was their first song and music video after their 26-years of the two ladies not speaking to each other!
Shakespears Sister began as a solo project for Siobhan Fahey following her departure from Bananarama. The spelling of the band's name was due to misspelled artwork created for their early single releases that wasn't picked up until it was too late. The idea was simple. What if William Shakespeare had a sister. Siobhan was advised to augment her new project launching Shakespears Sister as a duo with the addition of Marcella Detroit. However the partnership broke down and Siobhan continued alone recording a third Shakespears Sister album that the record label would end up shelving before release. Siobhan retired the name and continued as an independent artist (without a major label record deal) reactivating the project in 2004 with the release of the shelved third album followed by two more album releases. In 1988, Siobhan was living in America and married to Eurythmics guitarist Dave Stewart where she was raising her family. The remaining members (Keren Woodward & Sarah Dallin) were living in England. Physical distance became creative difference and so they amicably parted aways. Their last single and video together was "I Can't Help It". A new member, Jacquie O'Sullivan was recruited to participate in Bananarama's first ever world tour. Her first single release with Bananarama was a rerecorded version of "I Want You Back". This was followed by a Greatest Hits album. As a trio Keren, Sarah and Jacquie would record only 1 album together. Following this Keren and Sarah continued was a duo sporadically releasing new music, albeit as independent artists after their first album as a duo was a commercial failure. To celebrate 30th anniversary of the release of the Greatest Hits album, Siobhan rejoined Bananarama for a one off tour. Siobhan had hoped they would record new music together but a live album and DVD (the group's first ever such releases) were the reunited group's only output. Keren and Sarah went on to issue a new Bananarama album after a lengthy break between albums, as a duo once again. Following the one off tour, Siobhan reached out to Marcella to try and settle their differences (as had been done with Bananarama). The result was a Shakespears Sister Greatest Hits album, a tour and an EP of all new material.
Shakespears Sister are named so after a song by The Smiths, 'Shakespeare's Sister', and the name also shares initials with Siobhan Fahey's married name (Siobhan Stewart - she was married to Dave Stewart from Eurythmics between 1987 and 1996). It started as Siobhan Fahey (the one who left Bananarama in 1988)'s solo project, but she collaborated with American Marcella Detroit (the one with the operatic voice), who eventually became a 50-50 member of the band. It was an odd coupling, but somehow 'worked'. Siobhan quit Bananarama because she felt too constrained by what had become their formulaic pop sound by the time she left, working with producers Stock Aitken Waterman. Although most of Bananarama's hits were light, fluffy pop songs, they did explore some darker themes in them occasionally, e.g. 'Robert De Niro's Waiting' is about a teenage girl who was raped (but it's not immediately obvious, as it's wrapped up in a happy-sounding pop song). The E was dropped from the name after Siobhan's sculptor friend, who designed the band's logo for the first album, omitted an E from the name accidentally. The apostrophe was dropped for their second album.
Glad you reacted to this, try one of their newer songs Shakespears Sister - All the Queen’s Horses (you may recognize something) or When She Finds You. These songs are different from earlier song but still great!
The Queen Victoria sitting shocked upon a rocking horse verse is an extract from Edith Sitwell's 'Hornpipe', a poem written in 1922. I'm not sure that it has any particular relevance to the song.
The amusing thing about this song, looking back, is that the song probably summed up their relationship at that point quite succinctly and they probably weren't acting in this video...
This is one of my favourite Shakespares Sisters songs, so thank you for reacting to it. Most reactors only react to 'Stay', so I was pleasantly surprised when I saw that you had done a reaction to 'I Don't Care'. Fun Fact - Siobhan Fahey, who was one of the founding members of Bananarama, was also married to Dave Stewart, one half of the Eurythmics!
The way they act in this vid is so strong, especially the creepy doll bit that terrorizes Marcella. They dont just make great music, they make awesome theatre.
The name was adapted from the title of the song "Shakespeare's Sister" by The Smiths (another British band), which was in turn a reference to Virginia Woolf's work A Room of One's Own.
Shakespear's Sister had a nasty public break-up right as this album was becoming popular. Two decades later they sat down, talked it out, forgave each other, and made new music together. Look up their song "When She Finds You." It is a gorgeous song about their first meeting in 20 years.
Another interesting note about Siobhan Fahey, who left Bananrama to do her own music, she was married to Dave Stewart of Eurythmics at the time, for ten years and had two children.
The man singing Marcella's vocals during the opening sequence is meant to represent Marcella having a nightmare that she had been replaced in the band. That kind of happened, when just over a year later, she was fired.
OMG! Brilliant - More Shakespears Sister! Siobhan was always the slightly odd one in Bananarama, she didn't like the direction the band was going in (it had become extremely commercial) and she also had problem with the producers because she was married to Dave Stewart and they were jealous of him winning producers awards. She therefore left and teamed up with Marcella Detroit and eventually they became Shakespears Sister. They produced brilliant music in the late 90's early 90's. The third member of SS was Sophie Muller - the video director. All their videos play on the differences between Marcy and Siobhan - a kind of paranoia. They have an incredible story, they split up and didnt speak to each other for nearly 30 years, then got back together! Try You're History, Hello, turn your radio on, Goodbye Cruel World, All the Queens Horses, Heroine and don't forget to check out Marcella Detroit - I Believe
Shakespeare’s Sister was a song by The Smiths a favourite of Siobhain’s. The ‘e’ was dropped from the band’s name by accident by a friend who did their logo for their first album
I was (and still am) a huge Shakespears Sister fan. I’m really happy you’re doing more! I highly recommend ‘You’re History’, ‘Goodbye Cruel World’, ‘Hello (Turn Your Radio On)’, ‘Are We In Love Yet’ and ‘All The Queen’s Horses’.
love them. check out the video that came out last year (All the queens horses) its a continuation to this. they didn't speak for many years and finally got back together. also, my favorite tune by them is Hello (Turn your radio on) Marcy (The one with high voice) is so down to earth. I have exchanged a couple of pm's with her. she is so cool.
While it was the title of a song by The Smiths, the name comes from a section of an essay by Virginia Woolf who argues that if William Shakespeare had a sister as talented as him, she would still never have been know to because she would never have gotten the opportunity. Anything from Hormonally Yours is pure gold.
Siobhan didn’t like the direction Bananarama was taking musically so she left and started Shakespears Sister as her own solo project. I think Marcella was introduced to Siobhan through record producer Richard Feldman, whom Siobhan was writing and recording music for SS with at the time. Siobhan’s husband (and member of the band Eurythmics) Dave Stewart noticed how well Siobhan and Marcella’s vocals worked together in the recording studio and suggested that SS become a duo, therefore incorporating Marcella a lot more. Apparently both women were initially opposed to this idea (as they wanted their independence and to avoid commitments to a proper band) but Marcella said that by the end of the recording sessions of the first album, Sacred Heart, she had become a 50% member. Once the second album ‘Hormonally Yours’ came out, the single ‘Goodbye Cruel World’ got to number 59 in the charts. But when ‘Stay’ was released, this remained number 1 in the UK singles chart for 8 weeks. The difference between ‘Stay’ and all of the previous SS songs is that it features Marcella’s vocals more than Siobhan’s. From then on, there was tension between Siobhan and Marcella. Siobhan began to struggle with personal issues leading to the cancellation of a huge concert at the Royal Albert Hall. She was hospitalised with depression and the band went on a hiatus. In this time, Marcella worked on solo music as had already been agreed with the band previously. But unknowingly to Marcella, Siobhan ended her creative partnership with her at this time. Marcella found out when SS won an Ivor Novello Award and only she attended the ceremony. Siobhan’s publisher delivered an acceptance speech on her behalf, saying farewell to Marcella. Marcella was obviously unhappy with the way this was done. The pair did not speak for 25 years. During this time Siobhan made two other albums under the name SS and other solo music. Marcella also worked on solo music. Marcella tried to reach out to Siobhan a few times but to no avail. Eventually the pair reconciled in 2019, made a new album called ‘Ride Again’ and went on a UK tour.
My Sweet Darling K.S.O., The song is from their 2nd album "Hormonally Yours." The song and video mirror their deteriorating relationship. It did however peaked at #55 on the U.S. Hot 100 and was an international hit. When Siobhan Fahey left Bananarama in 1988, she decided to go solo and picked the name from The Smith's song "Shakespeare's Sister" which was a reference to the Virginia Wolf work "A Room of One's Own." A mistake on a woodcut sign omitted the "e," so Fahey decided to keep it that way making it her own. It's been a while since I actually heard this song. I will enter it into my playlist. God Bless
Siobhan left Bananarama primarily to explore other musical ideas that she couldn't do in that group. Run Silent and You're History are good songs from their 1st album to check out from them.
So this was 29 years ago right before they fell out and never talked again... until a few years ago when they buried the hatchet and created All The Queens Horses, which i HIGHLY recommend. :)
I stole a dress from my mum when I was 18 in 1990 when I moved out for the first time into a really cool house with another uni student, a hairdresser, and an actor. We went out to the gay clubs 3, 4 times a week and we started experimenting with ecstasy (mdma), LSD and other things. It began as the best time I'd ever had, but halfway through the year the 'other things' started ruining our utopia. This was so, so sad because things were full of love, trust and so close with one another, but then people began stealing from each other, sleeping with other peoples boyfriends etc. etc . Paranoia infected the house and the whole thing had fallen apart by 15 months together. To get to the point, my favourite album was Shakespears Sister's - Hormonally Yoursand on my album there was a techno version of Stay, and the single version of I Don't Care, (the 2 versions were b very different and I preferred the single version (the one you just heard). Anyway, every time I got depressed or pissed off, I would slip on my 'I Don't Care Dress' and would dance all around the house, sometimes even outside and dance like Siobhain, holding the hem of the dress and swing the skirt from side to side and kick my legs about like a deranged CanCan dancer, swishing the dress; or frous-frous as we called it in France. At the beginning everyone loved seeing this little boy swirling about; Xmas that year was amazing. However the dress came to be something I did often alone in the bedroom because things had gone to hell, so the dress and the song was something I needed; I called the Siobhain character 'The Evil of Blue Days'. Anyway that's it; just a story from before I became an adult. I no longer have the dress but still have the memories of the best 15mths of my life! Oh, and I still regularly do my dance when I'm done; just without the dress. Cheers mate 👗🙋🌈 👗 🎶
Siobhan was completely drunk when she filmed the Stay video! Lol! Here are the girls performing live on Top of the Pops... th-cam.com/video/JJ4uxgsP0QU/w-d-xo.html Siobhan’s channel... th-cam.com/users/SiobhanFahey
Called Shakespeare s sister because there is a theory, Shakespeare’s sister wrote a lot of his plays, but being a woman at that tune they would get shown.
These two always had a difficult relationship, even when recording and this song is pretty much about it. At least they could somewhat laugh at it before they really did split. Luckily they eventually sorted it out though.
AH THEY ARE MY FAVORITE LADIES, PERIOD. The breakup of Shakespear's Sister WAS FAR MORE TAUMATIC. They became super-famous after the 2nd album in the UK , but tensions between the two ladies (20 year age difference, creative differences, pregnancies at the same time) , with the label (they wanted more Marcy up front after "Stay"), and Siobahn's ongoing mental illness (clinical depression/anxieties accelerated by the previous two items) caused her to breakup the band (Siobhan owns the rights). The trauma came because Marcy was not informed until an award ceremony, during which Siobhan's publisher accepted the award (she was not there but Marcy was) and publicly dismissed Marcy. It took them 27 (2019) years to get back together.
Actually, Marcy is only 6 years older than Siobhan. She was born in 1952, but at the time, they gave her birth year as 1959. Siobhan was very ill (rumours of a car crash = suicide attempt, which puts 'Oh Dear' [did I crash my car again] from the third album in another context) in hospital when Marcy was publicly fired from the band. While I enjoyed the third album that was only Siobhan, it's a shame we didn't get more music from the pair as a duo in the 90s.
@@bubblingdownunder thx for the correction. That was the story I heard and had gotten it in my head somehow that Marcy was older. Prolly because of her doing background singing on "Long Tall Sally" with Clapton in mid '70s and Siobhan being a more "recent" artist in mid '80s
They are still - at least to my knowledge - that have this kind of vocal set up... Marcella Detroit has that 4.5 octave range while Siobhan sings in a contra alto... Amazing... Hope you do more SS, but I know there is so much great music to listen/react to - so I get it when you have to move on... But, could you spin back and listen to but not limited to these Sarah Brightman (no video) - Nella Fantasia, Time to say good bye (solo), Lindsey Sterling (violin - video) - Crystallize, Phantom of the Opera Enya - How can I keep from singing, Storms in Africa... Thanks... And, yes - SS newer stuff is a bit "lighter" and written from a place of healing and they are older, too - in their 60's and still rockin'. "All the Queen's Horses & When She Finds You", talks about what they went through when they broke up and reunited.
Shakespear's Sister did two other songs you might like: Catwoman and The Trouble With Andre. You don't have to do reactions to them, but I figured I'd let you know of them. :)
I can't believe my eyes!!! You did a reaction to I Don't Care. Usually when people do reactions to Shakespears Sister it's always Stay and none of their other hits. This is so exciting!!! That is correct. Siobhan Fahey used to be part of Bananarama. She was a founding member and left the band in early 1988. However, Bananarama did not split up. They carried on, firstly with a new third member, Jacquie O'Sullivan, who stayed with the band till 1991 and from there on Bananarama has continued as a duo. The group still exists. Just last year they released their autobiography. About Shakespears Sister, Siobhan Fahey took the name from The Smiths song Shakespeare's Sister. However, the person who designed the band's logo for their first album which was released in 1989, accidentally took out the last "e" in Shakespeare and Siobhan liked it that way because she felt the name now had its own identity. I Don't Care was taken from their second album, Hormonally Yours, the same album where Stay is taken from. I know you didn't ask in the video anything about the references about the nine lives mentioned in the chorus of the song but this is a curious fun fact. Marcella and Siobhan, the members from Shakespears Sister, had this idea of making a film about catwomen on the moon, based on old B-movies of that nature. A few of the songs recorded for this album were gonna appear in this film. However, their record company told Marcella and Siobhan something along the lines of "we're not a film company; we're a record company." For this reason, the movie idea was scrapped but not just in I Don't Care but in a few of the other tracks the references about catwomen and the like were kept in the songs.
Hormonally Yours was my seminal 90s album. 91 was a rough year for artists like Shakespear's Sister, Jesus Jones etc who were trying to break through while grunge was really becoming mainstream in the US.
i love Shakespears Sister - I Can Drive from 1996
shakespears sister - all the queen's horses
Shakespears Sister - When She Finds You (feat. Richard Hawley) from when they reformed 2 years ago
really hope she reacts to them to
I feel your pain so much as your comment echoes my thoughts exactly with my absolute favourite 80s group, The Thompson Twins.
All the reactions of theirs on here are of their biggest hit, "Hold Me Now", but no one ever seems to react to their loads of other hits that were just as good and sometimes better!
"All the Queen's Horses" by Shakespears Sister should definitely be on your list. It was their first song and music video after their 26-years of the two ladies not speaking to each other!
Please react to their song "Hello (Turn your radio on)" I'm sure you will love it. The radio stations still play it nowadays..
I love that song
Shakespears Sister began as a solo project for Siobhan Fahey following her departure from Bananarama. The spelling of the band's name was due to misspelled artwork created for their early single releases that wasn't picked up until it was too late. The idea was simple. What if William Shakespeare had a sister. Siobhan was advised to augment her new project launching Shakespears Sister as a duo with the addition of Marcella Detroit. However the partnership broke down and Siobhan continued alone recording a third Shakespears Sister album that the record label would end up shelving before release. Siobhan retired the name and continued as an independent artist (without a major label record deal) reactivating the project in 2004 with the release of the shelved third album followed by two more album releases.
In 1988, Siobhan was living in America and married to Eurythmics guitarist Dave Stewart where she was raising her family. The remaining members (Keren Woodward & Sarah Dallin) were living in England. Physical distance became creative difference and so they amicably parted aways. Their last single and video together was "I Can't Help It". A new member, Jacquie O'Sullivan was recruited to participate in Bananarama's first ever world tour. Her first single release with Bananarama was a rerecorded version of "I Want You Back". This was followed by a Greatest Hits album.
As a trio Keren, Sarah and Jacquie would record only 1 album together. Following this Keren and Sarah continued was a duo sporadically releasing new music, albeit as independent artists after their first album as a duo was a commercial failure. To celebrate 30th anniversary of the release of the Greatest Hits album, Siobhan rejoined Bananarama for a one off tour. Siobhan had hoped they would record new music together but a live album and DVD (the group's first ever such releases) were the reunited group's only output. Keren and Sarah went on to issue a new Bananarama album after a lengthy break between albums, as a duo once again.
Following the one off tour, Siobhan reached out to Marcella to try and settle their differences (as had been done with Bananarama). The result was a Shakespears Sister Greatest Hits album, a tour and an EP of all new material.
Shakespears Sister are named so after a song by The Smiths, 'Shakespeare's Sister', and the name also shares initials with Siobhan Fahey's married name (Siobhan Stewart - she was married to Dave Stewart from Eurythmics between 1987 and 1996). It started as Siobhan Fahey (the one who left Bananarama in 1988)'s solo project, but she collaborated with American Marcella Detroit (the one with the operatic voice), who eventually became a 50-50 member of the band. It was an odd coupling, but somehow 'worked'. Siobhan quit Bananarama because she felt too constrained by what had become their formulaic pop sound by the time she left, working with producers Stock Aitken Waterman. Although most of Bananarama's hits were light, fluffy pop songs, they did explore some darker themes in them occasionally, e.g. 'Robert De Niro's Waiting' is about a teenage girl who was raped (but it's not immediately obvious, as it's wrapped up in a happy-sounding pop song). The E was dropped from the name after Siobhan's sculptor friend, who designed the band's logo for the first album, omitted an E from the name accidentally. The apostrophe was dropped for their second album.
Glad you reacted to this, try one of their newer songs Shakespears Sister - All the Queen’s Horses (you may recognize something) or When She Finds You. These songs are different from earlier song but still great!
The Queen Victoria sitting shocked upon a rocking horse verse is an extract from Edith Sitwell's 'Hornpipe', a poem written in 1922. I'm not sure that it has any particular relevance to the song.
Siobhan Fahey (from Bananarama) is drop dead gorgeous
The amusing thing about this song, looking back, is that the song probably summed up their relationship at that point quite succinctly and they probably weren't acting in this video...
This is one of my favourite Shakespares Sisters songs, so thank you for reacting to it. Most reactors only react to 'Stay', so I was pleasantly surprised when I saw that you had done a reaction to 'I Don't Care'.
Fun Fact - Siobhan Fahey, who was one of the founding members of Bananarama, was also married to Dave Stewart, one half of the Eurythmics!
The way they act in this vid is so strong, especially the creepy doll bit that terrorizes Marcella. They dont just make great music, they make awesome theatre.
Wow ! I forgot how awesome this song is.
As you said, Marcella's high notes are incredible. I love how cryptic yet punchy this song is. Great pop rock. So glad you deserved it.
The name was adapted from the title of the song "Shakespeare's Sister" by The Smiths (another British band), which was in turn a reference to Virginia Woolf's work A Room of One's Own.
LOVE them sooo much...!
I LOVE Shakespear's Sister!!!
Shakespear's Sister had a nasty public break-up right as this album was becoming popular. Two decades later they sat down, talked it out, forgave each other, and made new music together. Look up their song "When She Finds You." It is a gorgeous song about their first meeting in 20 years.
all the queens horses is awesome to
I'd love to see you react to 'All the Queen's Horses' which is their first new recording 26 years after not speaking following thier split.
Scary that Marcella Detroit has been around over 40 years now... She was on the soundtrack to Times Square in 1980 (great movie) as Marcy Levy.
Another interesting note about Siobhan Fahey, who left Bananrama to do her own music, she was married to Dave Stewart of Eurythmics at the time, for ten years and had two children.
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Marcella Detroit
I Believe
The man singing Marcella's vocals during the opening sequence is meant to represent Marcella having a nightmare that she had been replaced in the band. That kind of happened, when just over a year later, she was fired.
OMG! Brilliant - More Shakespears Sister! Siobhan was always the slightly odd one in Bananarama, she didn't like the direction the band was going in (it had become extremely commercial) and she also had problem with the producers because she was married to Dave Stewart and they were jealous of him winning producers awards. She therefore left and teamed up with Marcella Detroit and eventually they became Shakespears Sister. They produced brilliant music in the late 90's early 90's. The third member of SS was Sophie Muller - the video director. All their videos play on the differences between Marcy and Siobhan - a kind of paranoia. They have an incredible story, they split up and didnt speak to each other for nearly 30 years, then got back together! Try You're History, Hello, turn your radio on, Goodbye Cruel World, All the Queens Horses, Heroine and don't forget to check out Marcella Detroit - I Believe
Shakespeare’s Sister was a song by The Smiths a favourite of Siobhain’s. The ‘e’ was dropped from the band’s name by accident by a friend who did their logo for their first album
I was (and still am) a huge Shakespears Sister fan. I’m really happy you’re doing more! I highly recommend ‘You’re History’, ‘Goodbye Cruel World’, ‘Hello (Turn Your Radio On)’, ‘Are We In Love Yet’ and ‘All The Queen’s Horses’.
The segment with the poem is “Hornpipe” by Dame Edith Sitwell from 1922.
You make me laugh when you said, that’s her lol
love them. check out the video that came out last year (All the queens horses) its a continuation to this.
they didn't speak for many years and finally got back together. also, my favorite tune by them is Hello (Turn your radio on) Marcy (The one with high voice) is so down to earth. I have exchanged a couple of pm's with her. she is so cool.
You're History and Hello (Turn Your Radio On) to go now lol.
:-). Shakespeare sisters did their own whole thing.
While it was the title of a song by The Smiths, the name comes from a section of an essay by Virginia Woolf who argues that if William Shakespeare had a sister as talented as him, she would still never have been know to because she would never have gotten the opportunity. Anything from Hormonally Yours is pure gold.
Siobhan didn’t like the direction Bananarama was taking musically so she left and started Shakespears Sister as her own solo project. I think Marcella was introduced to Siobhan through record producer Richard Feldman, whom Siobhan was writing and recording music for SS with at the time. Siobhan’s husband (and member of the band Eurythmics) Dave Stewart noticed how well Siobhan and Marcella’s vocals worked together in the recording studio and suggested that SS become a duo, therefore incorporating Marcella a lot more. Apparently both women were initially opposed to this idea (as they wanted their independence and to avoid commitments to a proper band) but Marcella said that by the end of the recording sessions of the first album, Sacred Heart, she had become a 50% member. Once the second album ‘Hormonally Yours’ came out, the single ‘Goodbye Cruel World’ got to number 59 in the charts. But when ‘Stay’ was released, this remained number 1 in the UK singles chart for 8 weeks. The difference between ‘Stay’ and all of the previous SS songs is that it features Marcella’s vocals more than Siobhan’s. From then on, there was tension between Siobhan and Marcella. Siobhan began to struggle with personal issues leading to the cancellation of a huge concert at the Royal Albert Hall. She was hospitalised with depression and the band went on a hiatus. In this time, Marcella worked on solo music as had already been agreed with the band previously. But unknowingly to Marcella, Siobhan ended her creative partnership with her at this time. Marcella found out when SS won an Ivor Novello Award and only she attended the ceremony. Siobhan’s publisher delivered an acceptance speech on her behalf, saying farewell to Marcella. Marcella was obviously unhappy with the way this was done. The pair did not speak for 25 years. During this time Siobhan made two other albums under the name SS and other solo music. Marcella also worked on solo music. Marcella tried to reach out to Siobhan a few times but to no avail. Eventually the pair reconciled in 2019, made a new album called ‘Ride Again’ and went on a UK tour.
My Sweet Darling K.S.O.,
The song is from their 2nd album "Hormonally Yours." The song and video mirror their deteriorating relationship. It did however peaked at #55 on the U.S. Hot 100 and was an international hit. When Siobhan Fahey left Bananarama in 1988, she decided to go solo and picked the name from The Smith's song "Shakespeare's Sister" which was a reference to the Virginia Wolf work "A Room of One's Own." A mistake on a woodcut sign omitted the "e," so Fahey decided to keep it that way making it her own. It's been a while since I actually heard this song. I will enter it into my playlist.
God Bless
Siobhan left Bananarama primarily to explore other musical ideas that she couldn't do in that group. Run Silent and You're History are good songs from their 1st album to check out from them.
So this was 29 years ago right before they fell out and never talked again... until a few years ago when they buried the hatchet and created All The Queens Horses, which i HIGHLY recommend. :)
This was super, love your reactions, please can you do a few more Madonna reactions, plus Lisa loeb, stay?. Xx
Of you wanna hear more of the sweet voices Marcella Detroit I recommend the song “Believe” from a solo album.
Today I learnt where Mississauga is.
I stole a dress from my mum when I was 18 in 1990 when I moved out for the first time into a really cool house with another uni student, a hairdresser, and an actor. We went out to the gay clubs 3, 4 times a week and we started experimenting with ecstasy (mdma), LSD and other things. It began as the best time I'd ever had, but halfway through the year the 'other things' started ruining our utopia. This was so, so sad because things were full of love, trust and so close with one another, but then people began stealing from each other, sleeping with other peoples boyfriends etc. etc . Paranoia infected the house and the whole thing had fallen apart by 15 months together. To get to the point, my favourite album was Shakespears Sister's - Hormonally Yoursand on my album there was a techno version of Stay, and the single version of I Don't Care, (the 2 versions were b
very different and I preferred the single version (the one you just heard). Anyway, every time I got depressed or pissed off, I would slip on my 'I Don't Care Dress' and would dance all around the house, sometimes even outside and dance like Siobhain, holding the hem of the dress and swing the skirt from side to side and kick my legs about like a deranged CanCan dancer, swishing the dress; or frous-frous as we called it in France. At the beginning everyone loved seeing this little boy swirling about; Xmas that year was amazing. However the dress came to be something I did often alone in the bedroom because things had gone to hell, so the dress and the song was something I needed; I called the Siobhain character 'The Evil of Blue Days'. Anyway that's it; just a story from before I became an adult. I no longer have the dress but still have the memories of the best 15mths of my life! Oh, and I still regularly do my dance when I'm done; just without the dress. Cheers mate 👗🙋🌈 👗 🎶
Siobhan was completely drunk when she filmed the Stay video! Lol!
Here are the girls performing live on Top of the Pops...
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Siobhan’s channel...
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Reminds me of my middle schools days
Called Shakespeare s sister because there is a theory, Shakespeare’s sister wrote a lot of his plays, but being a woman at that tune they would get shown.
These two always had a difficult relationship, even when recording and this song is pretty much about it. At least they could somewhat laugh at it before they really did split. Luckily they eventually sorted it out though.
AH THEY ARE MY FAVORITE LADIES, PERIOD. The breakup of Shakespear's Sister WAS FAR MORE TAUMATIC. They became super-famous after the 2nd album in the UK , but tensions between the two ladies (20 year age difference, creative differences, pregnancies at the same time) , with the label (they wanted more Marcy up front after "Stay"), and Siobahn's ongoing mental illness (clinical depression/anxieties accelerated by the previous two items) caused her to breakup the band (Siobhan owns the rights). The trauma came because Marcy was not informed until an award ceremony, during which Siobhan's publisher accepted the award (she was not there but Marcy was) and publicly dismissed Marcy. It took them 27 (2019) years to get back together.
Actually, Marcy is only 6 years older than Siobhan. She was born in 1952, but at the time, they gave her birth year as 1959. Siobhan was very ill (rumours of a car crash = suicide attempt, which puts 'Oh Dear' [did I crash my car again] from the third album in another context) in hospital when Marcy was publicly fired from the band. While I enjoyed the third album that was only Siobhan, it's a shame we didn't get more music from the pair as a duo in the 90s.
@@bubblingdownunder thx for the correction. That was the story I heard and had gotten it in my head somehow that Marcy was older. Prolly because of her doing background singing on "Long Tall Sally" with Clapton in mid '70s and Siobhan being a more "recent" artist in mid '80s
@@michaelgonzalez6295 You mean 'Lay Down Sally' ;-) Marcy was born in 1952 and Siobhan in 1958.
Please react to their song "Hello (Turn your radio on)" is a great song
Awesome band you should try your history,break my heart or Dirty mind from first album.
So many good songs.
You should react to their other song - Dirty Mind! Great song
They are still - at least to my knowledge - that have this kind of vocal set up... Marcella Detroit has that 4.5 octave range while Siobhan sings in a contra alto... Amazing... Hope you do more SS, but I know there is so much great music to listen/react to - so I get it when you have to move on...
But, could you spin back and listen to but not limited to these
Sarah Brightman (no video) - Nella Fantasia, Time to say good bye (solo),
Lindsey Sterling (violin - video) - Crystallize, Phantom of the Opera
Enya - How can I keep from singing, Storms in Africa...
Thanks... And, yes - SS newer stuff is a bit "lighter" and written from a place of healing and they are older, too - in their 60's and still rockin'. "All the Queen's Horses & When She Finds You", talks about what they went through when they broke up and reunited.
The reason it was ‘Shakespear’s Sister’, then later ‘Shakespears Sister’ was because of a typo. True story :D nicked the name off a Smiths song.
Shakespear's Sister did two other songs you might like: Catwoman and The Trouble With Andre. You don't have to do reactions to them, but I figured I'd let you know of them. :)
She should just buy "Hormonally Yours" and listen to it over and over and over again. As I have for almost 30 years. ❤
love stay more than this but these are a superior pop duo
Take One part Bananarama and One part Bangle mix with a lot of Vodka = SS;
This album is fantastic front to back not a bad cut on it.
I request a reaction their Shakespears Sister's 2019 "make-up" song "All the Queen's Horses".
THIS video IS ok