I Heard A Rumour

Song Information

I Heard A Rumour's jacket.

Artist: Bananarama
Composition/Lyrics: Matt Aitken, Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey, Mike Stock, Pete Waterman, Keren Woodward
Album: I Heard a Rumour (1987)
BPM: 123
Length: 1:58
First Music Game Appearance: jukebeat Bananarama pack
Other Music Game Appearances: None.

Lyrics

Who needs friends who never show
I'll tell you what you wanna know
I could have saved a broken heart
If I'd found out long ago

I'm just thinking about those lonely nights
When I waited for your call
'Til I found out all my friends were right, oh, oh
I didn't know you at all

I heard a rumour
(Oh, oh, I heard a rumour)
They say you got a broken heart
I heard a rumour
(Oh, oh, yes I did, boy)
I heard a rumour, oh

I'm just thinking about those lonely nights
When I waited for your call
'Til I found out all my friends were right (oh, oh)
I didn't know you at all

I heard a rumour
Oh, oh, I heard a rumour
They say you got a broken heart
I heard a rumour
(Oh, oh, yes I did, boy)

I heard a rumour
(Oh, oh, I heard a rumour)
They say you got a broken heart
I heard a rumour
(Oh, oh, yes I did, boy)
I heard a rumour, oh

Song Connections / Remixes

I Heard A Rumour features very similar chords, musical structure, and even parts of the melody of Italian singer Michael Fortunati 's 1986 hit song Give Me Up.
- Bananarama producer Mike Stock later clarified in a 2022 podcast that I Heard A Rumour was not based on Give Me Up. "We didn't do sampling. There's no similarity in the lyric, there's no actual similarity in terms of note-for-noteness in the tune. We were doing Europop." [1]

Trivia

I Heard A Rumour later appeared on Bananarama's fourth album, Wow!.

Difficulty & Notecounts

jubeat to clan difficulty rated from 1 to 10.

Game	Level
Game	Basic	Advanced	Extreme
Notecounts	166	339	583
jukebeat	2	5	8