Deep Sea Skiving, Bananarama, True Confessions, WOW, Pop Life, Please Yourself Bananarama's role in British pop history is nothing if not colourful.

From early punk beginnings with shambolic mutant covers with The Fun Boy Three, to lipstick disco pop aided by muscle-bound beefcake, to respected songwriters, the Bananas' story is action packed.

Bananarama started life as an all-girl punk outfit, and Terry Hall, Paul Weller and The Sex Pistols' Paul Cook contributed to their debut, Deep Sea Skiving.

It's a joy to hear Give Us Back Our Cheap Fares and The Pistols' No Feelings again.

The girls pulled themselves up by their bra straps and were soon scoring sizeable hits with Robert De Niro's Waiting and Cruel Summer.

After a lull, they were about to be extinguished until they unleashed Venus.

This spawned the monster known as Stock, Aitken and Waterman, and hit after mammoth hit followed, including Love In The First Degree, I Want You Back and I Heard A Rumour.

Despite criticism that they were Pete Waterman's puppets, The Bananas wrote most of their hit songs.

Indeed, 80 of the 98 tracks on these six expanded albums are credited to Siobhan Farey, Keren Woodward or Sara Dallin, including Last Thing On My Mind.

Bananarama may have lacked credibility but their music had an individual style, and these cheesy hits made us smile.