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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just felt very young and unprepared. I didn't know anyone who'd been pregnant, and I didn't know anyone who'd had a baby. Because everyone around me didn't really get it, I just kept on as though nothing was happening, even though I was slightly scared and throwing up everywhere.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got greasy hair, what can I say?
- Ghastly
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we first were working, we had no money. We were all sharing this ghastly flat and we had nothing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a real shame if people feel they have to do anything that makes them uncomfortable to be successful.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I might have been told to put a comb through my hair once or twice - by my mother!
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's really odd, but whatever we do and whatever style we might tackle, we always sound like us.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we've got the tracks that everyone wants to sing along to. A lot of people say, ‘God, I've forgotten you've had so many hits!'
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm actually quite proud of the fact that we made a success of ourselves in a donkey jacket and DMs, without any thought to sexualising what we were doing.
- Breakfast
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very aware as a young mum that I had to be there and not go off the rails. I would go clubbing, then come home and make breakfast for the baby.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had to pose with towels wrapped around us, holding rubber rings, that sort of thing. The turning point came when a photographer asked us to get on a fur rug and crawl like cats. We said no, because it was sexist and disrespectful.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women shouldn't have to apologise for their age or growing old. It is just inevitable.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's not like we don't have any talent. We can't sing like Whitney Houston, but we can sing well.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are more important things in life than being thin, anyway men prefer women with a bit of meat.
- Diet
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been on a diet that lasted more than a day.
- Normal
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can be normal if you choose to be.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really get that, when groups tour together or even do anything together when they hate each other.
- Drifted
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- Nov 07, 2020
We wouldn't ever sit down and pretend that our friendship didn't fall apart back in the late ‘80s. It wasn't like there was a massive bust-up. We just drifted apart.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's what friendships are, isn't it? You don't all have to be the same, as long as you've all got the same sense of humor and same attitudes on life.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The record label used to try and make us do stuff, like dance, and we'd say, nah, not doing that.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
We lived at the Sex Pistols' house because we were asked to vacate our room at the YWCA for 'keeping late hours.'
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
People thought we were intimidating, especially once we'd had a few drinks, but when I look back we were virtually on top of each other, holding hands. We sounded so stupid.
- Got
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- Nov 07, 2020
We got a gay following around the time we started using camp dancers who were stripped to the waist in cycling shorts and aviators.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
We didn't know it was going to be a career - it was just a lot of fun. We were known as the bimbo band and never expected to last.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were always around music and we were lucky to be in the right place at the right time, knowing the right friends.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were expected to smile and be flirty to everyone. But we acted more like a male rock band. We never mastered the niceties. We were more interested in having a good time.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were all friends who formed a band. We weren't auditioned or put together by a record label, management company or TV show.
- Harmony
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're in a band it's a 24/7 thing. If you don't get on or like each other things will fall apart very quickly, which is what it seems happened with Fifth Harmony.
- Argument
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Siobhan left, we never fell out or had a huge argument. She just wanted to move to America and do something different.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
We did 10 years of working and travelling constantly, and we were just knackered. I thought: 'I've got to take a break.' I felt like I was going mad. I decided to move to Cornwall.
- Grey
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not worried about wrinkles on my cheeks, or going grey. I'm not trying to be 20.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is nothing worse than a spoilt brat.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Thank god magazines like 'Heat' weren't around in our day. The thought of someone catching you unawares on a beach and publishing photos of your cellulite… it's so hurtful, causes so many problems.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were very creative. There was nothing contrived about us. No one telling us what to do, what to wear, what to sing. We wrote our own material, chose our producers.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone we knew was forming a band. Boy George, Wham! Sade. But it wasn't a big deal, they were our friends. It wasn't like we were hanging out with pop stars.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd hate to be too grown-up. That would be dull.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess that people can't imagine three girls just getting up off the streets and making a career for themselves without someone to help them - which is what we did.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
The perfect pop song is about creating a memory.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I look back on my life, you can almost tell the story of it through pop songs. Romances as a teenager, your first kiss, first love, first heartbreak.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
The amount of women we've met that say that we were an inspiration to them growing up, has always been one of the best things about being in the band.
- Experiences
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've always written from personal experiences.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely think we paved the way for other girl groups. We did it very much on our own terms without kowtowing to all the men in the business or being told what to do by anyone. For that we feel very proud.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back in the day we didn't really have time to be a live act because we were always on TV or doing live interviews. We were being flown all over the world.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad was fine, but I have to say my mum was upset when I said I was leaving home.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
We never came into the business with a plan beyond the next three months. It's all been a natural thing for us to go off and travel and then maybe record an album.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we'd had a Svengali manager and done what we would have been told, maybe we would have had a bigger, more hugely successful career.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people want to compare us to the Shangri-Las, then that's all well and good. But those groups were put together. They were told what to sing, dressed up, neatly packaged. We're like the '80s version in that we're more outgoing, more involved in it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've sung to prerecorded tracks and things like that, but we've never done a proper world tour with a band and everything.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We spent a couple of years trying to be what we thought people wanted us to be, what the press thought we should be, doing what the company wanted. Finally we just said 'Sod it. This is what we do best. We're best at making pop records that people enjoy and having fun and entertaining them.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a few years, we realized that you did have to put some work into it. That's why the bimbo comments make me angry. After seven years, people have to realize we have a certain amount of talent.
- Comparison
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't even compare ourselves with the Supremes. I adore the Supremes! I can't set myself up as comparison to people I'm in awe of.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were completely DIY and very opinionated. We weren't the type that sat back or do what we're told… We never listened to many people.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
We never realized how much of an influence we had.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've never been good at long-term plans.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Finding out I was expecting a child was highly inconvenient for doing all the promotion for 'Venus.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ‘80s don't seem to have gone away. Most weekends in the summer we're off doing a festival in front of 10,000 or 15,000 people with a load of other ‘80s acts. It was just such a great era for music, for individuals and characters. It just had a spirit.
- Nov 07, 2020
Radio in the U.K. is so formulaic. You've got commercial stations who play the same 20 songs all day.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how to write or to be anything other than Bananarama-ish because that's who we are.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had no money, and we had to go through 'punk' school. We ended up living in the rehearsal room that used to be the Sex Pistols rehearsal room at Malcolm McLaren's office. So we had this sort of interesting beginning.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
It never worked having a management style where someone would try to tell us what to do. It's never been the sort of group that we are.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we go out, we do enjoy ourselves. We don't worry about whether or not people will recognize us.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
We used to do 'Venus' live for a long time but never got 'round to recording it because people would always say it's too old-fashioned a song.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're best at doing pop music - we're not good at doing down, depressing music.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
The band is our whole lives and we are completely dedicated, but if you get too serious you'll have a lot of problems and if you don't enjoy what you are doing you shouldn't be doing it.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020