Editing Bananarama (section)

===1986–1987: ''True Confessions'' and international success===
In 1986, the band released their third album, ''[[True Confessions (album)|True Confessions]]''. The majority of the album was produced by [[Jolley & Swain]] with the exception of "[[Venus (Shocking Blue song)|Venus]]" and "[[More Than Physical]]". The album contains the group's most commercially successful single to date, a cover version of [[Shocking Blue]]'s 1969 song "Venus", which peaked at No. 1 on the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] in the United States. The [[music video]] for "Venus" received heavy airplay on [[MTV]] in the United States. In 2014, Matt Dunn of [[WhatCulture]] ranked the song at No. 5 in his "15 unforgettable Stock Aitken Waterman singles" list, describing it as a "timeless classic of 80s synth pop, an instantly recognisable foot-tapping gem", while underlining the "provocative video and all its fire, sexy choreography, coffin dancing and red patent-leather devil outfits".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://whatculture.com/music/15-unforgettable-stock-aitken-waterman-singles?page=12 |first=Matt |last=Dunn |title=15 unforgettable Stock Aitken Waterman singles |website=[[WhatCulture]] |date=16 January 2014 |access-date=23 January 2024}}</ref> In 2021, British magazine ''[[Classic Pop (magazine)|Classic Pop]]'' ranked "Venus" No. 2 in their list of "Top 40 Stock Aitken Waterman songs".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.classicpopmag.com/2021/08/stock-aitken-waterman-songs/|first=|last=|title=Top 40 Stock Aitken Waterman songs|magazine=[[Classic Pop (magazine)|Classic Pop]]|access-date=5 September 2021}}</ref>
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''True Confessions'' reached No. 46 on the [[UK Albums Chart]] and No. 15 on the US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]], becoming the group's highest-charting album on the latter chart. [[Tom Hibbert]] of ''[[Smash Hits]]'' praised the album as being "undeniably, convincingly listenable" and "a proper pop 'album'", adding that Bananarama "make 'intriguing' pop – and can even sustain the charm across an entire LP."<ref name="SH">{{cite magazine |last=Hibbert |first=Tom |author-link=Tom Hibbert |url=https://archive.org/details/smash-hits-16-29-july-1986/page/n57/mode/2up |title=Bananarama: True Confessions |magazine=[[Smash Hits]] |location=Peterborough |issn=0260-3004 |volume=8 |issue=15 |page=62 |date=16–29 July 1986 |access-date=4 June 2022 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> Also in 1986, Dallin and Woodward were featured as backing vocalists on two songs on ''Family Album'', produced by [[John Lydon]]. Follow-up single "[[More Than Physical]]" hit UK No. 41, and "[[A Trick of the Night]]" hit No. 32. 

During a press tour in [[New York City]], the group also recorded a song "Riskin' a Romance" featured in the film ''[[The Secret of My Success (1987 film)|The Secret of My Success]]'' (1987).  In March 1987, Bananarama participated in the recording of the single "[[Let It Be (song)|Let It Be]]" (UK No. 11) as members of the charity supergroup [[Ferry Aid]]. All sales from the single were donated to charity in response to the capsizing of the ferry [[Herald of Free Enterprise disaster|MS ''Herald of Free Enterprise'']], which killed 193 people. Among the featured singers was Woodward, who sang with [[Nick Kamen]].<ref>{{cite web| title= Collectors' Items: flexi discs, vinyl and cassettes| website= The Lyn Paul Website| url= http://www.lynpaulwebsite.org/NS-Novelties.htm#anchorFerryAid| access-date = 9 November 2011}}</ref>