True Confessions (album)

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True Confessions
Studio album by Bananarama
Released	July 1986
Recorded	1985
Genre	New Wave
Length	48:09
Label	London
Producer(s)	Tony Swain, Steve Jolley, Stock Aitken Waterman
Professional reviews
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Bananarama chronology
Bananarama (1984)	True Confessions (1986)	Wow! (1987)

True Confessions is the third album released by Bananarama. With this record, released in 1986, they achieved their biggest sales and chart success, most notably in the U.S., where the first single "Venus" hit number one on the Hot 100 (an achievement they never obtained in their home country).

A majority of the album is produced by Tony Swain and Steve Jolley (who produced their second album). With the exception of "Venus" and "More Than Physical" (later given a garage music remix for its single version), which began Bananarama's association with the Stock, Aitken & Waterman songwriting and production team, much of the album has adult contemporary leanings.

[edit] Miscellanea

• Bananarama gave the copyright for "Hooked on Love", an anti-drug song, to the Anti-Heroin Project's It's a Live-in World
• The song "True Confessions" was included on the sountrack to the American film PI-Private Investigations in 1987.
• "A Trick of the Night" was included on the soundtrack to the American film Jumpin' Jack Flash.

[edit] Track listing

1. "True Confessions" (Jolley, Swain, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward)
2. "Ready Or Not" (Jolley, Swain, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward)
3. "A Trick of the Night" (Jolley, Swain)
4. "Dance With A Stranger" (Jolley, Swain, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward)
5. "In A Perfect World" (Jolley, Swain, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward)
6. "Venus" (Robert Leeuwen)
7. "Do Not Disturb" (Jolley, Swain)
8. "A Cut Above the Rest" (Jolley, Swain, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward)
9. "Promised Land" (Jolley, Swain, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward)
10. "More Than Physical" (Stock, Aitken, Waterman, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward)
11. "Hooked On Love" (Jolley, Swain, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward)

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)
Related articles
Jolley & Swain | Stock Aitken Waterman