“Venus” appeared on Shocking Blue’s 1969 album Scorpio Dance, and it featured singer Mariska Veres, who had joined the group a year earlier. The hit song was written by founding member and guitarist Robbie van Leeuwen, who aspired to write a song about the Roman goddess of love, but made one mistake. According to Stereogum, van Leeuwen mistakenly wrote down the opening line as “the godness on the mountaintop” instead of “goddess,” and Veres sang it that way,
A hit remake in the ‘80s
Bananarama’s version of the song hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on Sept. 6, 1986. It was the third single from the girl group's third studio album, True Confessions.
“As soon as we heard Dead Or Alive’s 'You Spin Me Round,' we knew – that’s where we’re going,” she shared. “I loved that record. At that point, we were all on the same page. It was like, who produced Dead Or Alive’s single? Let’s do Venus like that. We’d been struggling with that third album, and we didn’t have a lead single and suddenly we had a single, and it turned everything around.
The cover version changed van Leeuwen’s life, too. Speaking with Interview magazine, Woodward said of “Venus,” “It’s done well for us, that one. It’s been a massive hit."
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