If You Want To Meet Robert De Niro, Write A Song About Him
The girl group Bananarama had a string of hits in the ’80s, and one of them was the curiously titled “Robert De Niro’s Waiting.” They have explained that the song is about fantasizing about an unattainable celebrity as a mechanism to avoid a real-world relationship. Keren Woodward, Siobhan Fahey and Sara Dallin really were big De Niro fans, and the song did earn them a meeting with the star himself. “When the song came out, he was in the UK filming Brazil, and he invited us for a drink at Kettners in Soho,” they recalled. “We were all sitting there when this guy knocked on the window. It was a freezing winter’s night and he had a bobble hat and glasses on, and we just thought: ‘Who is that person trying to catch our attention?’ We’d no idea it was him. He had his producer with him, who did most of the talking. I think De Niro was quite shy. But of course the whole place was filled with our friends and boyfriends – all sitting at different tables trying to sneak a look at him.”