Speaking of blondes...
...it was Kim Wilde's 60th birthday last week! Lordy, that really makes me feel old.
Let's take a little trip down memory lane to her very first hit, from way back in Spring 1981. I was still in school.
Looking out a dirty old window
Down below the cars in the city go rushing by
I sit here alone and I wonder why
Friday night and everyone's moving
I can feel the heat but it's soothing, heading down
I search for the beat in this dirty town
Downtown the young ones are going
Downtown the young ones are growing
We're the kids in America (Whoa)
We're the kids in America (Whoa)
Everybody live for the music-go-round
Bright lights, the music gets faster
Look, boy, don't check on your watch, not another glance
I'm not leaving now, honey, not a chance
Hot-shot, give me no problems
Much later, baby, you'll be saying never mind
You know life is cruel, life is never kind
Kind hearts don't make a new story
Kind hearts don't grab any glory
We're the kids in America (Whoa)
We're the kids in America (Whoa)
Everybody live for the music-go-round
Come closer, honey, that's better
Got to get a brand new experience, feeling right
Oh, don't try to stop, baby, hold me tight
Outside a new day is dawning
Outside suburbia's sprawling everywhere
I don't want to go, baby
New York to east California
There's a new wave coming, I warn ya
We're the kids in America (Whoa)
We're the kids in America (Whoa)
Everybody lives for the music-go-round
We're the kids
We're the kids
We're the kids in America
We're the kids
We're the kids
We're the kids in America
We're the kids
We're the kids
We're the kids in America
Loved it at the time, and love it now. To finish, however, here's a little joy Kim released earlier this year - despite the fact that on first glance I thought that was June Whitfield, I think this is fab!
Kim Wilde (born Kim Smith, 18th November 1960)
I love Kim wilde! "You Came" and "Never Trust A Stranger" are particular favourites.
ReplyDeleteAnd she's a gardener, too - winning a gold at RHS Chelsea, no less!
P.S. The video to "Numinous" looks like something Edina would come up with on Ab Fab (I think it was your mention of June Whitfield that coloured my view...?)
I remember her doing gardening stuff on telly a few years back. Then she must have got bored, because she's been a constant fixture on the "retro festival" circuit ever since, alongside the likes of Limahl, Tony Hadley, Howard Jones and Chesney Hawkes. Jx
DeletePS It is a weird video, but a great song.
I'm a kid in murikka right now, but on 1/20/21 it becomes america again.
ReplyDelete"Outside a new day is dawning", indeed. Jx
DeleteJune Whitfield!!! Ha - I see what you're saying!
ReplyDeleteI wonder why she sang Kids in America when she's so obviously British? I loved it anyhow!
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Possibly because a song titled Kids in Hertfordshire might not have sold so well? Jx
DeleteStill Wilde at 60
ReplyDeleteStill Fab at 60
and yes the second video is surely a dream sequence from 'AB FAB'. Perhaps done as a tribute to Dame June Whitfield
"Just the one, dear?"
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