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Bananarama - Do Not Disturb

Music Video | 1985
ArtistBananarama
SongDo Not Disturb
AlbumTrue Confessions
DirectorSimon Milne
GenrePop
IntroNo
OutroNo
Sound MixStereo
Technical Specificationscolour - format unknown
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Synopsis

Bananarama arrive at a brightly lit hotel dressed in flowing white outfits, introducing a playful visual world built around circles and geometric transformations. As they perform, the hotel's square doorways, beds, and other details shift into rounded shapes. The trio also appear in contrasting black-and-white settings, mixing choreography with football tricks and circular superimpositions. When they leave, the hotel's design returns to its original square form, giving the stylized video a neat visual resolution.

Factoids & Trivia

  • "Do Not Disturb" was released as a single in the United Kingdom in 1985 and later appeared on Bananarama's 1986 album "True Confessions."
  • The song was written and produced by Steve Jolley and Tony Swain. It was the only track on "True Confessions" produced entirely by that team.
  • Keren Woodward later said that the group did not like the song, which helped explain why "True Confessions" contained eleven tracks rather than the originally intended ten.
  • The single reached number 31 on the UK Singles Chart.
  • The circular visual concept extends beyond the hotel setting. Round beds, circular frames, curved spaces, and superimposed circular images repeatedly reinforce the video's central design motif.
  • The single was marketed with three separate shaped picture discs, each featuring one member of Bananarama and supplied with a display plinth.
  • The video was included in "The Video Singles," a 1987 Bananarama compilation containing clips associated with the "True Confessions" era.

Lyrics

Non disturbaded
Do not
Disturb

We took the late flight
Close to heaven in the cold half light
All the pleasures of that very first night
Crystal clear in my mind
No complications
Just another reservation
In a beach hotel
We found a room with a view
Lock the door and change the sign
...
© Bananarama - Do Not Disturb. This is an excerpt, provided as citation under fair-use.
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