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Shakespeare's Sister
12+ albums
pop80sGothic Metal80's
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Shakespear's Sister was a synth-pop-rock band formed by former Bananarama singer-songwriter Siobhan Fahey in 1988. It was Fahey's first musical project since leaving Bananarama. Later in 1989, backing vocalist Marcella Detroit was featured more as London Records presented the band as a duo. The name is taken from the title of the song "Shakespeare's Sister" by The Smiths, which in turn refers to a section of Virginia Woolf's feminist essay A Room of One's Own, in which Woolf argues that if William Shakespeare had a sister of equal genius, as a woman she would not have had the opportunity to make use of it. The band's name lost the final "e" when a friend making a woodcut logo for Fahey misspelt the most common modern, but not only, spelling of Shakespeare. The cover of the first album, Sacred Heart, clearly includes an apostrophe (i.e. Shakespear's Sister), though this later went missing on some covers, and is no longer being used at all by Fahey on her website or her new album under the name Shakespears Sister. Fahey - Detroit era Originally conceived as a Fahey solo project, Shakespear's Sister first release was the double A-sided single "Break My Heart (You Really)"/"Heroine" in October 1988, which failed to chart. In 1989, with Shakespear's Sister now presented as a duo of Fahey with Marcella Detroit, the next single, "You're History", became a top ten hit in the UK. The debut album, Sacred Heart, also went top ten, though further singles taken from the album were
