Shakespear's Sister
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Genres: Rock
Styles: Dance-Pop, Adult Contemporary, Alternative Pop-Rock
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UK Charts (Updated Until December 31 2005)
Highest Place In Charts (Albums): 3
Total Weeks In Charts (Albums): 63
Highest Place In Charts (Singles): 1
Total Weeks In Charts (Singles): 52
Members (Alphabetical Order)
Discography
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Shakespear's Sister Biography
Shakespear's Sister (sometimes written without the apostrophe) was a band consisting of Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit. The band formed in 1988, the same year that Fahey left Bananarama, and were named after a song by The Smiths of the same name.
Detroit exited the band in 1993, and Fahey admitted herself into a psychiatric unit with severe depression.
Detroit was tall, with a soprano voice, while Fahey was petite, with an alto voice; this was the opposite of what one might expect on seeing them, and it lent a novelty to their performances.
The name is taken from the title of a song by The Smiths, which in turn refers to a section of Virginia Woolf's feminist essay A Room of One's Own in which she argues that had William Shakespeare a sister of equal genius, as a woman she would not have had the opportunity to make use of it.
The band's single "Stay" is their best known work, achieving number one in both the UK (for eight weeks) and Ireland singles charts. It was their highest entry in the UK charts, being the only time they entered the top five. The single also became their biggest U.S. hit, reaching number four on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1992.
As a duo they released the albums Sacred Heart and Hormonally Yours, the latter recorded at Friar Park, in George Harrison's home studio. #3, recorded in 1995-1997 by Fahey after Detroit's departure, was finally given an independent release in 2004.
A greatest hits CD/DVD retrospective (The Best of Shakespear's Sister) was also released in 2004, containing all of the group's singles and videos, as well as tracks intended for the #3 album. A new compilation, titled Long Live the Queens!, features a tracklisting of rarities and unreleased material including remixes and b-sides. This was issued in late 2005.
| Artist | Shakespear's Sister + |
| Artist Type | Band + |
| Duet | true + |
| Genre | Rock + |
| Page Type | Main Info Page + |
| RID | 1,750,076 + |
| Style | Dance-Pop +, Adult Contemporary +, and Alternative Pop-Rock + |
