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Shakespear's Sister - Stay
Tante le cover di questo one-shot anni '90 a partire da Cher Lloyd in una puntata di X factor fino all'italianissima reinterpretazione di Mina con Piero Pelù!
"Stay" is a song by UK-based pop act Shakespears Sister, released by London Records in January 1992 as the second single from their album Hormonally Yours. Upon release, the single became a global smash hit becoming the duo's first and only No. 1 single in numerous territories, including the UK, where it topped the UK Singles Chart for eight consecutive weeks; the longest UK No. 1 reign for any all-female band, and was the fourth biggest selling single of 1992.
The single also held the No. 1 position in band member Siobhan Fahey's birthplace, Ireland, for six weeks, and it was a transatlantic hit reaching No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.
At the 1993 Brit Awards "Stay" won the award for British Video of the Year. In November 2010, The X Factor contestant Cher Lloyd performed the song on series 7 of the show. Following this, the original version re-entered the UK, Ireland and the European Hot 100 Singles charts.
The song originally sold 490,000 copies in the UK by the end of 1992 which was a year that saw low single sales, as of February 2012 it has sold over 600,000 copies (the threshold for a Platinum certification in the UK). As well as being used on The X Factor, the song has also been featured on Britain's Got Talent, Dancing on Ice, Strictly Come Dancing, The Voice UK, The Voice of Ireland and The X Factor New Zealand.
"Stay" was the only Shakespears Sister song that featured Siobhan Fahey less prominently on vocals than Marcella Detroit, with Detroit singing the verses and lead chorus and Fahey singing the song's dramatic bridge.
Detroit is noted for singing in whistle register before the last chorus of the song, going up to a high F (F6). The piano, synth and bass guitar were performed by Ian Maidman, and the drums by Steve Ferrera, both musicians whose contributions featured throughout the 'Hormonally Yours' album.
Shakespears Sister is a pop-rock act, formed in 1988 by singer–songwriter Siobhan Fahey, a former member of Bananarama. Based in the United Kingdom, Shakespears Sister was initially a solo act, but by 1989 it had become a duo with the addition of the American musician Marcella Detroit.
Together they released two Top 10 albums and a string of Top 40 hits, including the 1992 hit "Stay" which peaked at No. 1 in the UK for eight consecutive weeks. Detroit was sacked from the band in 1993, leaving Fahey as the sole member again until she ended the project in 1996.
After working under her own name for some years, Fahey revived the Shakespears Sister name in 2009.
Le Shakespears Sister (originariamente scritto Shakespear's Sister) sono un duo formato dalla cantante e compositrice irlandese Siobhan Fahey, ex Bananarama, e dalla musicista statunitense Marcella Detroit. La band si è formata nel 1988, lo stesso anno in cui la Fahey ha lasciato le Bananarama, all'apice del successo, subito dopo aver ritirato, con le due ex compagne, l'illustre riconoscimento che le ha viste entrare nel Guinness dei primati come la band femminile britannica più di successo della storia.
Il nome del duo composto dalla Fahey e dalla Detroit deriva dal titolo dell'omonima (ma non omografa) canzone del gruppo degli Smiths, appunto "Shakespeare's Sister", che si riferisce, a sua volta, ad una sezione del saggio femminista di Virginia Woolf, intitolato A Room of One's Own, in cui la Woolf sostiene che se William Shakespeare avesse avuto una sorella di pari genio, in qualità di donna, a quell'epoca, la poveretta non avrebbe avuto la possibilità di metterlo a frutto. Come accennato, il nome della band ha perso la sua "e" finale quando un amico, che stava realizzando un logo per la Fahey, scrisse in modo errato lo spelling moderno più comunemente utilizzato per il cognome di Shakespeare. Quanto all'apostrofo, invece, esso figura ancora sulla copertina del primo album, Sacred Heart, (i.e. Shakespear's Sister), ma anche questo è andato poi perduto, per semplice distrazione e noncuranza, seguendo l'onda più recentemente cavalcata dalle canzoni di musica leggera verso la fine del XX secolo.
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