Rough Justice

Rough Justice

Infobox Single
Name = Rough Justice


Artist = Bananarama
from Album = Bananarama
B-side = "Live Now"
Released = May 1984
Format = 7" single, 12" single
Recorded = September 1983
Genre = Pop, New Wave
Length =
Label = London Records
Writer = Sara Dallin
Siobhan Fahey
Keren Woodward
Jolley & Swain
Producer = Jolley & Swain
Last single = "Robert DeNiro's Waiting"
(1984)
This single = "Rough Justice"
(1984)
Next single = "King of the Jungle"
(1984)"Rough Justice" is a song written and recorded by English girl group Bananarama. It was the third single released from their self-titled second album in 1984.

The song is one of several composed by Bananarama at the time which lyrically addressed "serious" topics, in this case societal injustices towards children, poverty, starvation and innocent bystanders who are given "no time to smile before they die". Although the music was upbeat, the heavy lyrical content did not prove to be as successful as their prior single ("Robert De Niro's Waiting"). It peaked at number twenty-three in the UK singles chart. In Australia, the song failed to chart and it was not released as a single in the United States.

"Rough Justice" was remixed slightly from its album version when released as a single, most notably in the track's introduction.

The music video features the girls preparing for an appearance on a show at a TV studio. Their plans change when they spontaneously interrupt the broadcast of a different show in order to get their message out to the public.

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