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"Love in the First Degree" is a song written and recorded by English girl group Bananarama. It is included on their fourth studio album Wow! and was released as its second single except in the U.S., where it was the album's third single (following "I Can't Help It"). The track was co-written and produced by the Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) trio.

The song is an uptempo pop tune similar to many hits produced by SAW during this time period. The surreal lyrics, composed by Siobhan Fahey and built upon by SAW and Bananarama members Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward, describes a dream in which they find themselves being tried in court for love. The musical structure could be compared to that of Pachelbel's Canon.

"Love in the First Degree" is Bananarama's biggest-selling single in their native UK. It holds a three-way tie for their highest UK singles chart placing (number three). The single also became a top-ten success in Australia and earned a top-twenty placing in New Zealand. In the United States the song just missed the top-forty, but was a top-ten club hit. The B-side was Mr. Sleaze in which Bananarama member Sara Dallin not only sang on that track but also played bass guitar like she did on "Love in the First Degree".

As one of their final performances with Fahey, the group performed the song at the BRIT Awards with a large entourage of male dancers dressed only in black bikini briefs. The song was nominated for best British single at the BRIT Awards, but lost to Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up", also produced by Stock Aitken Waterman.

By the time "Love in the First Degree" was released in the United States, Fahey had already announced her departure from Bananarama.

In 2007, a mash-up of the song with Basement Jaxx's 2005 hit "Oh My Gosh" became popular on the internet.

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8 years ago

unicornpoo

Guilty as a coca bean XD That what I thought the lyrics were when I was a kid.

8 years ago

Zukub Lemon

real cool god bless the 80s

9 years ago

attila müller

ezek zenék voltak...jó világ volt...

9 years ago

rodrigo herrera

FAUSTO DISCOTHEQUE...QUE RECUERDOS AÑO 1996

9 years ago

Andy Wainwright

A little article I wrote today about Bananarama, Linda Lewis, Cathy Dennis and the shamefully underrated female UK R&B scene!Girl Power!!! Let's hear it for UK R&B ladies!UK female vocal harmony groups lag a long, long way back in terms of credibility.Q? Is it because they're crap.A. No, because the mass market media are racist, sexist pigs who can't take a joke especially when it is at their expense.Additionally, the 1960s English pop acts were often friends with both those in alternative comedy (George Harrison bankrolled the Monty Python Films, a brave move in the enterprise-fearing communistic UK of the day) and often friends with American soul singers (the same George once dated Estelle Bennett of the Ronettes). Harrison isn't an isolated case, and a scene grew encompassing the comedy,soul,pop/rock and the spiritual, Bohemian 1960s vibe.Perhaps the first and definitive UK homegrown R&B singer was Linda Lewis, a friend of many of the top rock names of the day including the Beatles. Though there were some girlgroups before, such as the Abba-esque Nolan Sisters, the modern format was set by Banarama. A special and unique talent in both singing and writing emerged in Cathy Dennis, and all further acts seem to be their spins offs, rip-offs, relatives and sometimes all at once.And essentially that's how it stayed right up to the new reality TV format of Girls Aloud and Leona Lewis. But obviously things haven't even in that way changed much!OK, am I not missing the elephant in the castle here, those lovely Spice Girls. OK, so let's say we'll make Linda, Bananarama and Cathy all the same age and put them in a girl group. I wonder what they'd look and sound like? All Saints obviously realised the popularity of Linda and Bananarama to the extent they appear to dress up as them, and they seem take their stagenames from Mel & Kim, who did much the same a decade earlier. The latter seem to play around the irony of a soap star's character having the same name as her model sister. Eternal are superb, and really wound our crappy music press up by doing much the same thing with Kylie Minogue/En Vogue and in pointing out that most music journos could not tell them apart in a blindfold test. If you've not heard them, they sound like Bananarama with Leona Lewis as lead singer. It's worth asking Kylie (or Sonia or Cathy Dennis) fans to watch the documentary "Size Zero Louise". It's amazing how many men don't know how different a woman can look with dress size and make up issues- the Kylie size isn't a healthy one.There's a rather strong feminist streak running through all of this, and I think that's what upsets our media- just the idea of a black single mom earning a little money and dating some highly desirable white boyband star younger than her really pisses them off, so anything to bring them down! Though, like Thatcher galvanised a huge opposition in response to areas of Tory policy, the girl stars have fought back by becoming a fuck-you-media-industry-suits thing.And our "serious" music press doesn't like this. WTF, were they like born to rich parents, given a first class education but too thick to do law, medicine or engineering? Have they even tried to sing in key (I can't but sing for fun- not bloody easy and the backing vocals are the hardest of all).So many of the US acts our media big up yet laugh at homegrown efforts by comparison, in fact almost all, fail to hit it for me. Now, I like gangster films of whatever culture and Public Enemy and likely NWA are on my top ten favourite bands list. I don't like fucking shit like homophobia, racial stereotyping , sexism and exploitation, which is what the US scene became in the 1990s- if that's cool then what the fuck is the agenda these media guys serve?Back in the 80s, hip hop was radical, political, and joined forces with hippies, ravers and punks not aimed at attacking them on behalf of the big corporations. Read a good unofficial book on 2pac or watch loads of cool vids made by loads of horrified black American music fans.So try to buy something by Little Mix, The Saturdays or Leona Lewis if you've really got to spend anything on downloads, and spend some time looking up UK female R&B acts.(article public domain, no credit required for use)

10 years ago

Anya Nurse

after over 20yrs,somehow woke up with this song in my head 2days ago...I liked it as a child! maybe 6yrs old!...

10 years ago

SniperMaske

“but lost to Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up"”Rickrolled ahead of time! ;))

10 years ago

giuseppe seggio

Best female group of the 80

10 years ago

giuseppe seggio

Better than Lady Ga Ga e company

10 years ago

Hamelyn six

Go 80's go!

10 years ago

Blakey Boo

Okay - I just listened and I can't hear anything similar (Other than the title of the song)... Plus, having heard it, I doubt many people would want to base a song on it haha, not great.

10 years ago

Víctor Raúl herrera sierra

los 80 q recuerdos a

10 years ago

Ronald Carrion Films

que bonito

10 years ago

Connor Davidson

This is actually another cool song. You know I first heard it from my school when we were practising for the concert.

10 years ago

Connor Davidson

Wow! From the 80s? Cool!:)

10 years ago

jagguy1225

Obviously, someone in Bananarama had heard the 1981 hit song, "Love In The First Degree" by the country music group Alabama when they wrote this. Listen to the chorus of the Alabama version - it's the same music as Bananarama's. Siobhan even uses the word "plea" to rhyme with "degree", the same as the Alabama song. When I first heard B's song, I thought it had to be a cover of the Alabama hit. I like Bananarama but this is too close to someone else's song.

10 years ago

iker

I likeeee!!

10 years ago

Mario García

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10 years ago

Rhyas9

80s power!

11 years ago

Emma Ibbitson

Wow!! Remember this so well (word for word) The childhood memories of dancing around the bedroom with a hairbrush in hand :) nothing wrong with music from the 80s, Bring it all back and lets get rid of "ADELE" and "LADY fooking GAGA!!!"

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