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"I Heard a Rumour" is a 1987 song recorded by English girl group
Girl group

A girl group is a popular music act featuring several young female singers who generally Harmony together.Girl groups emerged in the late 1950s as groups of young singers teamed up with behind-the-scenes songwriters and music producers to create hit singles, often featuring glossy production values and backing by top studio musicians....
 Bananarama
Bananarama

Bananarama are an United Kingdom girl group who have had success on the pop and dance charts since 1982. Although there have been line-up changes during the years, the group enjoyed its most popular success as a trio, made up of lifelong friends Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin....
, featured on their Wow!
Wow! (album)

WOW! is the fourth album released by Bananarama. It is entirely produced and co-written with the Stock Aitken Waterman production trio and is the last album by the girl group to generate significant chart hits in the U.S....
 album. It was also featured in the film Disorderlies
Disorderlies

Disorderlies is a 1987 in film comedy film starring the hip hop music group, The Fat Boys, and Ralph Bellamy....
 (starring The Fat Boys
The Fat Boys

The Fat Boys was an United States hip-hop music trio from Brooklyn, New York City, that emerged in the early 1980s....
) and included on its soundtrack
Soundtrack

The term soundtrack refers to three related concepts: recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; and the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded so...
.

The music video
Music video

A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a pop music or rock music song with lyrics. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings....
 is an expansion on the dress-up theme of Bananarama's "Venus". Group members Sara Dallin
Sara Dallin

Sara Elizabeth Dallin is an England singer and songwriter from the pop music group Bananarama. She co-founded the group along with Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward in 1979, and has been a key force in the group's longevity despite other personnel changes and throughout her time with the band she occasionally plays bass guitar as well as fre...
, Siobhan Fahey
Siobhan Fahey

Siobhan Fahey was a founding member of the 1980s United Kingdom girl group Bananarama, and later founded the musical outfit Shakespears Sister....
 and Keren Woodward
Keren Woodward

Keren Jane Woodward is an English people Pop music singer and songwriter from the all-women band Bananarama.She now lives in Cornwall with her Significant other, former Wham! singer and guitarist Andrew Ridgeley and her son Thomas , from a previous relationship with the male Model David-Scott Evans....
 are seen emulating various film stars, projected on screens behind them, by dressing up in various costumes, such as a cowgirl or Carmen Miranda
Carmen Miranda

Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha Order of Infante D. Henrique, better known by the stage name Carmen Miranda was a Portugal-born Brazilian people samba Singing and Actor most popular in the 1940s and 1950s....
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"I Heard a Rumour" is a 1987 song recorded by English girl group
Girl group

A girl group is a popular music act featuring several young female singers who generally Harmony together.Girl groups emerged in the late 1950s as groups of young singers teamed up with behind-the-scenes songwriters and music producers to create hit singles, often featuring glossy production values and backing by top studio musicians....
 Bananarama
Bananarama

Bananarama are an United Kingdom girl group who have had success on the pop and dance charts since 1982. Although there have been line-up changes during the years, the group enjoyed its most popular success as a trio, made up of lifelong friends Siobhan Fahey, Keren Woodward and Sara Dallin....
, featured on their Wow!
Wow! (album)

WOW! is the fourth album released by Bananarama. It is entirely produced and co-written with the Stock Aitken Waterman production trio and is the last album by the girl group to generate significant chart hits in the U.S....
 album. It was also featured in the film Disorderlies
Disorderlies

Disorderlies is a 1987 in film comedy film starring the hip hop music group, The Fat Boys, and Ralph Bellamy....
 (starring The Fat Boys
The Fat Boys

The Fat Boys was an United States hip-hop music trio from Brooklyn, New York City, that emerged in the early 1980s....
) and included on its soundtrack
Soundtrack

The term soundtrack refers to three related concepts: recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; and the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded so...
.

The music video
Music video

A music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a pop music or rock music song with lyrics. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings....
 is an expansion on the dress-up theme of Bananarama's "Venus". Group members Sara Dallin
Sara Dallin

Sara Elizabeth Dallin is an England singer and songwriter from the pop music group Bananarama. She co-founded the group along with Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward in 1979, and has been a key force in the group's longevity despite other personnel changes and throughout her time with the band she occasionally plays bass guitar as well as fre...
, Siobhan Fahey
Siobhan Fahey

Siobhan Fahey was a founding member of the 1980s United Kingdom girl group Bananarama, and later founded the musical outfit Shakespears Sister....
 and Keren Woodward
Keren Woodward

Keren Jane Woodward is an English people Pop music singer and songwriter from the all-women band Bananarama.She now lives in Cornwall with her Significant other, former Wham! singer and guitarist Andrew Ridgeley and her son Thomas , from a previous relationship with the male Model David-Scott Evans....
 are seen emulating various film stars, projected on screens behind them, by dressing up in various costumes, such as a cowgirl or Carmen Miranda
Carmen Miranda

Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha Order of Infante D. Henrique, better known by the stage name Carmen Miranda was a Portugal-born Brazilian people samba Singing and Actor most popular in the 1940s and 1950s....
. Bananarama's trademark silliness is interspersed throughout. At one point the group, dressed in French can-can dresses, bend over to 'moon' the camera and expose the letters W-O-W (a reference to their album title) on their rears. Bloopers are also kept in and intercut.

"I Heard a Rumour" became one of Bananarama's biggest singles, hitting #14 in their native UK, and climbing to #4 in the U.S., #2 in Canada and #8 in New Zealand. It was also a hit in nightclubs, prompting a top-five placing on the U.S. Hot Dance Club Play
Hot Dance Club Play

Billboard 's Hot Dance Club Play chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. nightclubs. It is compiled by Billboard exclusively from playlists submitted by nightclub disc jockeys who must apply and meet certain criteria to become "Billboard-reporting DJs."...
 chart.

The song is included in the PlayStation
PlayStation

The PlayStation is a 32-bit history of video game consoles video game console released by Sony Computer Entertainment in December .The PlayStation was the first of the ubiquitous PlayStation ....
 karaoke
Karaoke

is a form of entertainment in which amateur singers sing along with recorded music using a microphone and public address system. The music is typically a well-known popular music song which has no lead vocal....
 game SingStar Anthems.

Charts

Chart (1987)Peak
position
UK Singles Chart14
U.S. Billboard Hot 1004
U.S. Hot Dance Club Play3
Canada singles2
Australia ARIA singles32
New Zealand singles8
Switzerland singles chart10

Remixes


  • I Heard A Rumour (Album Version)
  • I Heard A Rumour (Horoscope Mix)
  • I Heard A Rumour (Dub)
  • I Heard A Rumour (Miami Mix)
  • I Heard A Rumour (House Mix)
  • I Heard A Rumour (Corporation Of Bananarama Mix)
  • I Heard A Rumour (Corporation Dub)
  • I Heard A Rumour (2001 Version)