Last Thing on My Mind

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"Last Thing on My Mind"

Single by Bananarama
from the album Please Yourself
Released	November 1992
Format	7" single, 12" single, CD single
Recorded	1992
Genre	Pop, Dance
Label	London Records
Writer(s)	Sara Dallin Keren Woodward Mike Stock Pete Waterman
Producer(s)	Mike Stock, Pete Waterman
Chart positions
#71 (UK)
Bananarama singles chronology
"Movin' On" (1992)	"Last Thing on My Mind" (1992)	"More, More, More" (1993)

"Last Thing on My Mind"

Single by Steps
from the album Step One
Released	April 1998
Format	7" single, 12" single, CD single
Recorded	1998
Genre	Pop, Dance
Label	Jive Records
Writer(s)	Sara Dallin Keren Woodward Mike Stock Pete Waterman
Producer(s)	Pete Waterman
Chart positions
#6 (UK)
Steps singles chronology
"5,6,7,8" (1997)	"Last Thing on My Mind" (1998)	"One for Sorrow" (1998)

"'Last Thing on My Mind" is a song written and recorded by English girl group Bananarama. The song is featured on their album Please Yourself and was released as the album's second single in the UK in 1992. It was produced by Mike Stock and Pete Waterman, two-thirds of the Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) trio.

The music video features the two girls dressed in suits, ties, and gloves as they meet in a high-class European cafe where they chat, giggle, and whisper into each other's ears. These scenes are intercut with scenes of each of the girls being caressed or hugging a male companion in an upscale bedroom. The video ends with the two girls leaving together in a limousine. There is a lesbian subtext to the storyline due to the intimacy between the girls, their masculine outfits, and the ending with the two girls leaning against each other without their male partners.

Bananarama's version of the song met with little success, peaking at number seventy-one in the UK singles chart. Six years later, "Last Thing on My Mind" was covered by English pop group Steps. Produced by Pete Waterman and released as the second single from their album Step One, their version fared much better, hitting number six in the UK, number five in Australia and number one in Belgium.

[edit] Charts

[edit] Bananarama version

Chart (1992)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	71

[edit] Steps version

Chart (1998)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	6
Australia ARIA singles	5
Belgium singles	1
Netherlands singles	11

Bananarama
Sara Dallin \| Keren Woodward Siobhan Fahey \| Jacquie O'Sullivan
Discography
Studio albums: Deep Sea Skiving \| Bananarama \| True Confessions \| Wow! \| Pop Life \| Please Yourself \| Ultra Violet / I Found Love \| Exotica \| Drama Compilations: Greatest Hits Collection \| Greatest Remixes Collection \| Bunch of Hits \| Master Series \| The Essentials \| The Very Best of Bananarama \| Venus and Other Hits \| Really Saying Something: The Platinum Collection \| The Twelve Inches of Bananarama Singles: Aie a Mwana \| T'ain't What You Do (It's the Way That You Do It) \| Really Saying Something \| Shy Boy \| Cheers Then \| He's Got Tact \| Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye \| Cruel Summer \| Robert DeNiro's Waiting \| Rough Justice \| King of the Jungle \| Hot Line to Heaven \| The Wild Life \| Do Not Disturb \| Venus \| More Than Physical \| A Trick of the Night \| Set on You \| I Heard a Rumour \| Love in the First Degree \| I Can't Help It \| I Want You Back \| Love, Truth and Honesty \| Nathan Jones \| Help! \| Cruel Summer '89 \| Megarama '89 \| Only Your Love \| Preacher Man \| Long Train Running \| Tripping on Your Love \| Movin' On \| Last Thing on My Mind \| More, More, More \| I Found Love \| Every Shade of Blue \| Take Me to Your Heart \| Careless Whisper \| If \| Really Saying Something (Solasso Remix) \| Move in My Direction \| Look on the Floor (Hypnotic Tango)
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