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True Confessions
Studio album by Bananarama
Released	July 1986
Recorded	May 1985 - April 1986
Genre	New Wave
Length	48:09
Label	London
Producer	Tony Swain, Steve Jolley, Stock Aitken Waterman
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Bananarama chronology
Bananarama (1984) True Confessions (1986) Wow! (1987)

True Confessions is the third album released by Bananarama. With this record, released in 1986, they achieved their biggest sales and chart success, most notably in the U.S., where the first single "Venus" hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 (an achievement they never obtained in their home country).

A majority of the album is produced by Tony Swain and Steve Jolley (who produced their second album). With the exception of "Venus" and "More Than Physical" (later given a garage music remix for its single version), which began Bananarama's association with the Stock, Aitken & Waterman songwriting and production team, much of the album has adult contemporary leanings.

On March 19, 2007, Bananarama's first six studio albums were re-issued by Rhino Records. All re-issues are remastered and each includes several bonus tracks, consisting of B-sides and remixes.

• Bananarama gave the copyright for "Hooked on Love", an anti-drug song, to the Anti-Heroin Project's It's a Live-in World
• The song "True Confessions" was included on the sountrack to the American film PI-Private Investigations in 1987.
• "A Trick of the Night" was included on the soundtrack to the American film Jumpin' Jack Flash.

1. "True Confessions" (Jolley, Swain, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward) — 5:19
2. "Ready Or Not" (Jolley, Swain, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward) — 3:53
3. "A Trick of the Night" (Jolley, Swain) — 4:39
4. "Dance With a Stranger" (Jolley, Swain, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward) — 4:31
5. "In a Perfect World" (Jolley, Swain, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward) — 6:03
6. "Venus" (Robert Leeuwen) — 3:50
7. "Do Not Disturb" (Jolley, Swain) — 3:24
8. "A Cut Above the Rest" (Jolley, Swain, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward) — 3:40
9. "Promised Land" (Dallin, Fahey, Woodward) — 3:44
10. "More Than Physical" (Stock, Aitken, Waterman, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward) — 5:04
11. "Hooked on Love" (Jolley, Swain, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward) — 3:48

1. "Ghost" (P. Bishop, P. Seymour, S. Dallin) — 4:03
2. "White Train" (Dallin, Fahey, Woodward, Bishop, Seymour) — 3:51
3. "More Than Physical" (Single version) — 3:19
4. "Scarlett" (Dallin, Fahey, Woodward, Bishop) — 4:12
5. "A Trick of the Night" (Single version) — 4:17
6. "Set on You" (Stock, Aitken, Waterman, Dallin, Fahey, Woodward) — 3:56
7. "Riskin' a Romance" (Fahey, O. Marland, P. Waller) — 3:53