Print application banner when Spring Context starts

I'm trying to implement an application Banner that prints the version and other information when our application starts. I have tried implementing SmartLifecycle and ApplicationListener without success.

The callback method never gets called and the banner never prints. What am I doing wrong?

public class Banner implements ApplicationListener<ContextStartedEvent>
{
    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Banner.class);

    @Override
    public void onApplicationEvent(ContextStartedEvent event)
    {
        log.info("*******************************************************");
        log.info("Application v1.8 starting");
        log.info("*******************************************************");
    }
}