Kajagoogoo were a British pop band best known for their first single, "Too Shy", which reached number one in the UK Singles Chart and number five in the U.S Billboard Hot 100 in 1983. The single was produced by keyboardist Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran and Colin Thurston who was, at the time, Duran Duran's in-house producer. For popular forms of music in general, see Popular music. ... Too Shy was a UK number one single for two weeks in February 1983 for Kajagoogoo. ... The UK Singles Chart is currently compiled by The Official UK Charts Company (OCC) on behalf of the British record industry. ... The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... Nick Rhodes in 1981. ... Duran Duran is an English pop/rock band notable for a long series of popular singles and vivid music videos. ... Colin Thurston (1947 – 2007) was a British recording engineer and producer. ...

The band was founded in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, in 1979 as a four piece avant-garde instrumental group called Art Nouveau, with Nick Beggs on bass guitar, Steve Askew on lead guitar, Stuart Croxford Neale on keyboards and Jez Strode on drums. Art Nouveau released a track called "The Fear Machine". The single sold a few hundred copies, and was played on the John Peel show, but the band could not get a record deal. Location within the British Isles Leighton Buzzard is a town near the Chiltern Hills in Bedfordshire, and is between Luton and Milton Keynes. ... Bedfordshire (abbreviated Beds) is a county in England that forms part of the East of England region. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... A work similar to Marcel Duchamps Fountain Avant garde (written avant-garde) is a French phrase, one of many French phrases used by English speakers. ... An instrumental is, in contrast to a song, a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments. ... Nick Beggs (born December 15, 1961) has pursued his own musical career since Kaja (post Kajagoogoo) split up. ... The electric bass guitar (or electric bass) is a string instrument played with the fingers by plucking, slapping, or using a pick. ... Steve Askew (original Kajagoogoo lead Guitar) was born on December 4th 1957 in Middlesex London. ... Lead guitar refers to a role within a band, that provides melody or melodic material, as opposed to the rhythm of the rhythm guitar, bass, and drums. ... Piano, a well-known instance of keyboard instruments A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. ... For other kinds of drums, see drum (disambiguation). ... “Peel Sessions” redirects here. ...

In 1981, they advertised for and auditioned lead singers, and finally chose Christopher Hamill. He made his profile, and therefore that of the band, catchier by using an anagram of his surname for his stage name, becoming Limahl. The name of the band was then changed to Kajagoogoo. Writing out the phonetics of a baby's first sounds gave them "GagaGooGoo". With a little bit of "casual" alteration it became Kajagoogoo. An anagram (Greek ana- = back or again, and graphein = to write) is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce other words, using all the original letters exactly once; e. ... Bold textA stage name, or a screen name, is a pseudonym used by performers and entertainers (such as actors, comedians, musicians, clowns, and professional wrestlers. ... Image:Tobias regner lim. ... Phonetic (pho-NET-ic) is a nationwide voicemail-to-text messaging service available for most digital mobile phones in which a subscriber is provided a custom voice mailbox for the purpose of receiving all incoming voice messages as actual transcribed text for reading via short messaging (also known as SMS...

The band attracted the interest of three record labels (and Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes) while performing at the Embassy Club in London. The band was signed to EMI in July of 1982, and Rhodes was signed to produce their first album, White Feathers. In between they supported Birmingham New Romantic band Fashion on tour. The debut single "Too Shy" was released in January of 1983 and went to the top of the charts (before any of Duran Duran's singles had done so, Rhodes noted ruefully). Follow-up releases "Ooh to Be Aah" and "Hang on Now" both reached the UK top twenty as well. This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... The EMI Group (LSE: EMI) is a British music company comprising of the major record company EMI Music which operates several labels, based in Brook Green in London, England, and EMI Music Publishing, based on Charing Cross Road, London. ... White Feathers is the debut album by English new wave/pop music band Kajagoogoo, released in 1983. ... Birmingham (pron. ... Fashion were a 1980s British band consisting of De Harriss, Luke James,Alan Darby, Mulligan, Marlon Recchi and Dik Davis. ...

The band fired Limahl in 1983 after a huge disagreement^{[citation needed]}, with Beggs taking over as singer for the second album Islands released in 1984. First single "Big Apple" made the Top Ten, and then "The Lion's Mouth" made the Top 30, but then the hits dried up completely and the second album was a commercial failure peaking at only #35 in the UK. In an attempt to gain some credibility and lose the bubblegum image they relaunched as Kaja in 1985. This version of Kajagoogoo was a failure, Strode had already left the band and they went their separate ways in 1986. The Big Apple - Manhattan viewed from atop the World Trade Center The Big Apple is a nickname or alternate toponym for New York City used by New Yorkers. ...

Limahl enjoyed a briefly successful solo career, scoring a Top 20 hit with "Only for Love", and then a Top 5 hit with the Giorgio Moroder-produced "NeverEnding Story," the title track to the hit film of the same name in 1984. Limahl continued to record, working with producers Tim Palmer and De Harris. The result, his debut LP Don't Suppose... (with "NeverEnding Story" appended as a selling point) was released in the U.K., then in the U.S. in 1985. He then resumed his collaboration with Moroder, resulting in the 1986 LP Colour All My Days, his final project for EMI. His last album, 1992's Love Is Blind, was released only in Germany on the Bellaphon label, and featured an updated take on their seminal hit, "Too Shy `92." [1]. Like the Kajagoogoo albums made after his leaving, none of Limahl's solo albums have been commercially successful in the UK. The band briefly joined forces again on VH1's Bands Reunited (26 January 2004, Season 1, Episode 6). Love Is Blind is the third studio album released by Dream pop/Darkwave band Claire Voyant. ... VH1 (VH-1: Video Hits One until 1994) is an American cable television channel that was created in January 1985 by Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment, at the time a division of Warner Communications and owners of MTV. VH1 and sister channel MTV are currently part of the MTV Networks division... Bands Reunited was a television program produced by VH1 in 2004. ...

Following the VH1 reunion, the band had offers to continue to play in this lineup but there were still too many disagreements between band-members to make this possible. The band felt that the VH1 feature was unfairly editied to portray simplified reasons as to Limahl's departure and complained that it also suggested the band remained together in the "fairy tale" ending.^[1]

In 2007 Nick Beggs, Steve Askew and Stuart Neale continue to play together as Kajagoogoo and a new album is about to be released.

Discography

Studio albums

• 1983 White Feathers - #5 UK, #38 U.S.
• 1984 Islands - #35 UK (U.S. title Extra Play, as Kaja) - #185 U.S.
• 1985 Crazy People's Right to Speak (released as Kaja)

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Compilations

• 1993 Too Shy: The Singles and More
• 1996 The Best of Kajagoogoo & Limahl
• 1996 The Very Best of Kajagoogoo
• 2003 Very Best of Kajagoogoo

Singles

• 1983 "Too Shy" - #1 UK, #5 U.S.
• 1983 "Ooh to Be Ah" - #7 UK
• 1983 "Hang on Now" - #13 UK, #78 U.S.
• 1983 "Big Apple" #8 UK
• 1984 "The Lion's Mouth" - #25 UK
• 1984 "Turn Your Back On Me" - #47 UK
• 1985 "Shouldn't Do That" (as Kaja) - #63 UK

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Footnotes

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External links

• The Official Kajagoogoo Website