The last few years. There’s a beauty to getting to an age where you really don’t care about stuff that used to bother you.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 March 2024 source ↗
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Keren Woodward
b. 1962
Born in Bristol, Keren Woodward, 62, had a clerical job at the BBC when she formed Bananarama with Sara Dallin and Siobhan Fahey in the early 80s. They have had 25 songs in the UK Top 40 with hits including Cruel Summer, Venus, Love in the First Degree and Robert De Niro’s Waiting. A duo since the early 90s, this month they released Glorious: The Ultimate Collection and, in April, they play the London Palladium. Woodward has a son and lives in Cornwall.
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I am a bit of a procrastinator.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 March 2024 source ↗
Kind, funny, moany – I do love a moan.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 March 2024 source ↗
I’ve apologised to my son, Thomas, for being absent for quite a lot of his first few years, but, as a working mother and breadwinner, I kind of had to be. I like to think I’ve made up for it.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 March 2024 source ↗
When a relationship I’ve been invested in stops working. And yet, here I am, happy as you like.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 March 2024 source ↗
Always flying: we’ve had flights where the engine’s been on fire; where we’ve nose-dived.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 March 2024 source ↗
Persevering with a career that was predicted to last six months and still being here four decades later.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 March 2024 source ↗
Sleep apnoea and tinnitus.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 March 2024 source ↗
As the dark-haired bird from Bananarama.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 March 2024 source ↗
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