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11 Facts About Honey Bane

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Honey Bane was born on Donna Tracy Boylan, 1964 and is an English singer and actress, possibly best known for her 1981 UK Top 40 single "Turn Me On Turn Me Off".

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Honey Bane began her musical career at the age of 14 in 1978 when she formed the punk rock band the Fatal Microbes.

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In 1981, Honey Bane began collaborating with her then manager, Jimmy Pursey.

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The collaboration resulted in a new single, "Turn Me On Turn Me Off", which peaked in the UK Singles Chart at No 37, and Honey Bane subsequently appeared performing the single on Top of the Pops.

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Honey Bane would be teamed up with Alan Shacklock, Steve Levine and Nick Tauber, to work on several singles, released between 1981 and 1983.

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Only one more appeared in the UK Singles Chart and her musical career floundered, when Honey Bane left her contract with EMI, frustrated with the direction her music was being forced in by her label.

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Honey Bane played the role of Molly and the film centred on the lives of young women incarcerated in a British girls' borstal.

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8.

Honey Bane spent the remainder of the 1980s as a pin-up model for erotic magazines.

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In 2015, Honey Bane released her first full studio album, Acceptance of Existence, which was over ten years in the making.

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Honey Bane released it independently via her website, along with an Anthology CD titled, It's a Baneful Life.

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Honey Bane performed poetry live at public events and continued to write music.