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Shakespears Sister
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Origin London, England
Years active 1988 – 1996

Genres- Rock
Synthpop

Labels- London Records

Members- Siobhan Fahey
Past members- Marcella Detroit

Shakespears Sister was a band formed by Irish born former Bananarama singer/songwriter Siobhan Fahey and American musician Marcella Detroit. The band formed in 1988, the same year that Fahey left Bananarama. The name is taken from the title of the song "Shakespeare's Sister" by The Smiths, which in turn refers to a section of Virginia Woolf's feminist essay A Room of One's Own in which Woolf argues that had William Shakespeare a sister of equal genius, as a woman she would not have had the opportunity to make use of it.

History
Shakespears Sister released two albums as a duo, Sacred Heart and Hormonally Yours.

The band's single "Stay" is their best known work, achieving number one in both the UK (for eight weeks, one of the longest in chart history) and Ireland singles charts. It was their highest entry in the UK charts, being the only time they entered the top five. The single also became their biggest U.S. hit, reaching number four on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1992. The accompanying music video was also a hit, if somewhat controversial.(Recently featured in Channel4's Top 100 Music Videos). In it, Fahey fights over the fate of a dying man in an allegory of life and death that mirrored her own internal struggles. The imagery in the video was seen as a depiction of witchcraft/raising the dead so was banned in Germany, hightening the track's profile.

After a year-long worldwide tour through 1992 Fahey cancelled further European touring due to physical and emotional exhaustion and, subsequently admitted herself into a psychiatric unit with severe depression.

In 1993 one of Fahey's favourite songs "My 16th Apology" was released as a single, to moderate success, followed by the quasi-singles "Prehistoric Daze" from The Flintstones soundtrack in 1994, and "Waiting" from the Sadie Frost/Jude Law film Shopping in 1995.

In 1996 Fahey resurfaced again as Shakespears Sister with the single "I Can Drive", a single picked by the record company instead of Fahey's choice of the arguably superior "Do I Scare You". After the single charted at number thirty and London Records refused to release the full album, Fahey insisted upon being dropped from the label, leaving the album unreleased.

In 2003, Fahey regained the master tapes from those sessions. #3, recorded in 1995-1997 , was finally given an independent release in 2004 after London Records originally shelved the project.

A greatest hits CD/DVD retrospective (The Best of Shakespears Sister) was also released in 2004, containing all of the group's singles and music videos, as well as tracks intended for the #3 album. An additional compilation album, Long Live the Queens!, featuring a tracklisting of remixes and b-sides, was released in late 2005.

A recurrent theme of many of the early Shakespears Sister songs involve departure ("You're History", "Goodbye Cruel World") and blame ("You Made Me Come to This", "I Don't Care"). In interviews, Bananarama members Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward have alluded to these songs being about them.


Discography

Albums
Year Album cover Album UK U.S. AUS Additional information
1989 Sacred Heart 9 - 22 Debut album
1992 Hormonally Yours 3 56 20
2004 #3 - - - Solo album by Siobhan Fahey recorded 1995-1997, released independently in 2004
2004 The Best of Shakespears Sister - - - CD/DVD hits compilation album, contains all of the band's music videos
2005 Long Live the Queens! - - - B-sides, remixes and rarities compilation album
Singles
Year Song UK singles U.S. Hot 100 AUS NZ Album
1988 "Break My Heart (You Really)" / "Heroine" - - - - Sacred Heart
1989 "Heroine" (U.S. and Canada only) - - - - Sacred Heart
1989 "You're History" 7 - 20 28 Sacred Heart
1989 "Run Silent" 54 - 47 - Sacred Heart
1990 "Dirty Mind" 71 - 65 - Sacred Heart
1991 "Goodbye Cruel World" 59 - - - Hormonally Yours
1992 "Stay" 1 4 3 5 Hormonally Yours
1992 "I Don't Care" 7 55 18 11 Hormonally Yours
1992 "Goodbye Cruel World" (reissue) 32 - - - Hormonally Yours
1992 "Hello (Turn Your Radio On)" 14 - 97 43 Hormonally Yours
1993 "My 16th Apology" 61 - - - Hormonally Yours
1996 "I Can Drive" 30 - - - #3

taken from Wikipedia