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How we laughed: the golden days of Bananarama

Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin relive the heady 1980s, when the group stumbled into fame and treated it all as a joke

Left to right: Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward. Credit: Alamy
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  • Bananarama: Really Saying Something

    Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin

    Hutchinson, pp. 304, £20

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