'80s Group Had One Single. Now, a Record Deal

A rare record-shop find has launched an obscure British '80s band into the spotlight. Zenana was formed in 1983 and released one single, "Witches," in 1986 (give it a listen here). The synth-pop dance song never charted, the BBC reports, and the group disbanded the following year. Zenana's story picked up nearly four decades later, when Bristol-based DJ Kiernan Abbott found the single when trawling through records at a second-hand shop in Cornwall, England. He contacted the bandmates, who, in a bit of kismet, had performed together for the first time since their heyday at a party the night prior.

"It was so spooky," Anita Gabrielle Tedder, now 69, tells the Daily Mail. "We hadn't sung that song in 37 years and then the next day, this young DJ Kiernan Abbott gets in touch about it." Abbott added the track to his rotation at '80s-themed clubs, and it soon caught the attention of DJ Antal Heitlager, managing director of Rush Hour records, who plans to release the song in remastered vinyl, an extended remix, and a "Witches With The Spell of Love" EP. "If you'd told me in my 70th year I would ever be signing a record deal, I would have never have considered it," Tedder tells the BBC. "It's amazing." (This 3-minute '80s song baffles online sleuths.)