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==Lananeeneenoonoo== {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians --> | name = Lananeeneenoonoo | image = Lananeeneenoonoo comic relief single cover.jpg | caption = The single cover for "Help!" featuring French, Saunders, and Burke (Lananeeneenoonoo) with the real Bananarama | image_size = | background = group_or_band | alias = | origin = [[United Kingdom]] | genre = [[Pop music|Pop]] | years_active = 1988β1989 | label = [[London Records]] | associated_acts = [[Bananarama]] | website = | current_members = | past_members = [[Dawn French]]<br>[[Jennifer Saunders]]<br>[[Kathy Burke]] }} '''Lananeeneenoonoo''' was a British spoof all-girl group consisting of comedians [[Dawn French]], [[Jennifer Saunders]] and [[Kathy Burke]]. The group, and its name, was a spoof on the popular group [[Bananarama]] and was introduced during the 1988 Christmas special of ''French & Saunders'', in which Burke was a guest. In 1989, along with Bananarama, they created a [[charity single]] called "[[Help! (song)#Bananarama version|Help!]]", to raise money for [[Comic Relief]]. It was a [[cover version]] of [[the Beatles]]' song and was released on the [[London Records]] [[record label|label]], entering the [[UK Singles Chart]] on 25 February 1989 and reaching a high of No. 3. It remained in the chart for nine weeks. ===The Sugar Lumps=== French, Saunders and Burke returned for Comic Relief in 1997 as '''the Sugar Lumps''', along with [[Llewella Gideon]] and [[Lulu (singer)|Lulu]], to parody [[the Spice Girls]], with whom they performed a version of [[Who Do You Think You Are (Spice Girls song)#Music video|Who Do You Think You Are]].<ref>{{Citation | last1=Rice | first1=Tim | last2=Rice | first2=Jonathan | last3=Gambaccini | first3=Paul | author1-link= Tim Rice <!-- No article for Johnathan Rice; the existing article [[Johnathan Rice]] is a different person --> | author3-link= Paul Gambaccini | title=[[Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums]] | publisher = [[Guinness World Records]] and Guinness Publishing | year=1990 | location=[[London Borough of Enfield|Enfield]], [[Middlesex]] | isbn=0-85112-398-8}} </ref><ref>{{citation | last1=Brown | first1=Joe | title=Girls Just Wanna Make Bucks | newspaper = [[The Washington Post]] | year=1989 | url = http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1181599.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121105143556/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1181599.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2012-11-05 | access-date = 2009-07-30}}</ref>
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