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Meet Bananarama — Three Fun Girls With A-Peel

Toby Goldstein, Creem, December 1982

NEW YORK — Bad puns by silly reporters should have been the worst problem the tempting British trio called Bananarama faced during their first trip to America. Instead, sprawled in a melange of tropical colored clothing (they'd just done a photo session for Mademoiselle) in a Polygram conference room, the girls recovered from shell shock.

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