Really Saying Something: Sara & Keren – Our Bananarama Story

I've been a fan of Bananarama since the beginning and was so excited to find out they wrote a book! I enjoyed every word of it and didn't want it to end! Their personal stories add so much and if it's possible, I'm a bigger fan now than I was before! I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

I was never so excited for a book to arrive, this didn't disappoint!! Well written, lots of fun photos of the girls as they grew up. As a top Bananarama fan since childhood, so happy with this, so special as it is the ladies telling their own life stories, how they grew-up together and formed this special bond for life. Love it!!

If a kid of the 80’s who like me loved Bananarama and even now get a tummy tingle when hear the opening bars of ‘Venus’ and sigh with the memory of hot teenage summers and curled lips when ‘Cruel Summer’ comes on the radio then this is for youStarting at school and finishing in 2019 it is set in chapters with both telling their recollections of each time period ie growing up, first single, first TOTP etc, it is very much like reading extracts from a diary and how things changed from dreams to realityIt isen’t a kiss and tell and there is no nastiness re Siobhan and her leaving the group , in fact the opposite is true as they speak highly of her and when they reunite for the tour ( a few years back ) they are all 3 obviously happy to be back togetherI think, and not sure why was so surprised, I was quite shocked with their love of things like Caviar and fancy restaurants when they made the big time, certainly preferring the posh menu at Le Caprice to a fish and chip supper!, and nightly magnums of champers to a cup of tea, they knew, and mixed with the great, good and dubious of each decade and no one can say they didn’t have a hedonistic timeFascinating to read about Band Aid and George Michael’s parties and their friendship with Keith from The Prodigy although with other more basic things ie where were they born and brought up I only read once the slightest nod to Bristol, some things are covered in detail, others not soTheir career is amazing and as you read about each single you are singing it in you’re head, the main thing I took away from the book is they have had/still have a fab time and 100% LOVE their livesIt’s not a perfect read but it didn’t have to be tbh, it was a really enjoyable one!For what it gives you it’s a10/105 Stars

Sara und Keren erzählen von ihrer Freundschaft. Und ihren Begegnungen mit anderen Künstlern. Natürlich auch von ihrer Band Bananarama.

Great book