Venus (Shocking Blue Song)
"Venus" is a 1969 song by the Dutch band Shocking Blue which the group took to number one in the U.S. and five countries across Europe in 1970. When covered in 1986 by girl group Bananarama, the song returned to number one in the U.S. and topped the charts in six other countries around the world. The composition has been featured in numerous films, television shows and commercials, and covered dozens of times by artists around the world.
Read more about Venus (Shocking Blue Song): Shocking Blue, Bananarama Version, Other Cover Versions, "Shizgarah", or "Venus" in Russian Urban Folklore, Legacy
Famous quotes containing the words venus and/or blue:
“For her own person,
It beggared all description: she did lie
In her pavilion—cloth of gold, of tissue—
O’er-picturing that Venus where we see
The fancy outwork nature.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Rather than have it the principal thing in my son’s mind, I would gladly have him think that the sun went round the earth, and that the stars were so many spangles set in the bright blue firmament.”
—Thomas Arnold (1795–1842)