Shakespears Sister (originally Shakespeare's Sister) was a punk-pop-rock band formed by Irish-born former Bananarama singer/songwriter Siobhan Fahey initially on her own in 1988, the same year which she left Bananarama. Later in 1992 backing vocalist Marcella Detroit was featured more as London Records presented the band as a duo but the relationship was short lived due to misconceptions. The name is taken from the title of the song "Shakespeare's Sister" by The Smiths, which in turn refers to a section of Virginia Woolf's feminist essay A Room of One's Own, in which Woolf argues that if William Shakespeare had a sister of equal genius, as a woman she would not have had the opportunity to make use of it. The band's name lost its final "e" when a friend making a woodcut logo for Fahey misspelt the most common modern spelling of Shakespeare. The cover of the first album, Sacred Heart, clearly includes an apostrophe (i.e. Shak

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