Bananarama mark 40 years since their album Wow! with an open-air Live at Chelsea night at the Royal Hospital, joined by Jason Donovan and T’Pau.
Bananarama, the London group behind “Venus” and “Cruel Summer”, headline the Live at Chelsea series at the Royal Hospital Chelsea on Friday 11 June 2027. Jason Donovan and T’Pau complete the bill.
Sara Dallin, Keren Woodward and Siobhan Fahey formed the group in London in 1980. Fahey left in 1988 to form Shakespears Sister, and Dallin and Woodward have worked as a duo since 1991.
Their hits include “Really Saying Something”, “Robert De Niro’s Waiting” and “Venus”, which reached number one in the United States in 1986. Guinness World Records lists them for the most chart entries by an all-female group.
The night marks 40 years since Wow!, the 1987 album that carried “I Heard a Rumour” and “Love in the First Degree”. Live at Chelsea runs in the hospital grounds from 9 to 13 June, with Jack Savoretti and Patti Smith on other nights.
Jason Donovan played Scott Robinson in Neighbours before his debut, Ten Good Reasons, became Britain’s best-selling album of 1989. He later took the lead role in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. T’Pau, fronted by Carol Decker, spent five weeks at number one in 1987 with “China in Your Hand”.