Official Charts Flashback 1992: Shakespears Sister - Stay
officialcharts.comIt's fair to say that when Siobhan Fahey left Bananarama, expectations of any solo project she might have planned were not high.
The singer parted ways with the group in 1988 after a row over pizza (!) and becoming frustrated with the musical direction they were headed, famously telling their chief producer Pete Waterman they wouldn't sing songs with the word 'love' in the title.
When she did return just a year later, few expected it to be one of the boldest revolutions in pop. Teaming up with US singer-songwriter Marcella Detroit (although originally conceived as a Siobhan solo project), the pair formed Shakespears Sister, a band whose dark-but-danceable goth-pop couldn't have been further from Bananarama's brand of bold and unpolished sass.
The duo's big breakout hit arrived 30 years ago; this week in 1992 Stay was in the middle of an eight week stint at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart, having climbed its way there in February by knocking Wet Wet Wet's Goodnight Girl off the summit after a five-week ascent.
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