The Neverending Story
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Browse piano sheets by Limahl on Zen Virtual Piano. At the Tokyo Music Festival, where he was promoting his debut solo single Only for Love, Limahl met the producer Giorgio Moroder, who invited him to try out his voice on Moroder’s theme song for the epic fantasy film The NeverEnding Story. Moving from promoting a debut solo single to being considered for a film theme can be read as a change in the kind of attention his career was receiving. Classic Pop describes the man born Christopher Hamill as growing up in Wigan with little money. He told the magazine he was the kid with the radio stuck to his ear at the back of the class, obsessed with music because it represented more fun. He had musical theatre roles in Godspell and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which gave him a taste of the stage, and a few bit parts as an actor in The Gentle Touch, a Clarks shoes commercial and the video for Adam and the Ants’ Stand and Deliver. The radio-at-the-ear image, beside musical theatre roles, can be read as a performer whose interest in listening and in performing sit side by side. After singing in a few short-lived bands, he replied to an ad in Melody Maker; the group, Art Nouveau, would soon become Kajagoogoo. Kajagoogoo accomplished a No. 1 single with Too Shy. A stage background and an answer to a Melody Maker advert are two different routes that meet in one early career. In an In Focus Visions interview, Limahl said that in 1986 he was signed by Clive Davis at Arista Records and turned up with a bunch of new songs, and that the label spent $200,000 recording six songs and then dropped him. In the same interview he said he was working with Tim Palmer, whom he calls a big producer now, and Dee Harris from the Birmingham band Fashion. He also said he kept a note on his phone called Song Titles, and that almost every day he thought of or heard something and wrote it down because he knew he would forget. Set beside six recorded songs that a label dropped, a note kept on a phone makes a contrast between a small private habit and a large studio spend.
Browse piano sheets by Limahl on Zen Virtual Piano.
At the Tokyo Music Festival, where he was promoting his debut solo single Only for Love, Limahl met the producer Giorgio Moroder, who invited him to try out his voice on Moroder’s theme song for the epic fantasy film The NeverEnding Story. Moving from promoting a debut solo single to being considered for a film theme can be read as a change in the kind of attention his career was receiving.
Classic Pop describes the man born Christopher Hamill as growing up in Wigan with little money. He told the magazine he was the kid with the radio stuck to his ear at the back of the class, obsessed with music because it represented more fun. He had musical theatre roles in Godspell and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, which gave him a taste of the stage, and a few bit parts as an actor in The Gentle Touch, a Clarks shoes commercial and the video for Adam and the Ants’ Stand and Deliver. The radio-at-the-ear image, beside musical theatre roles, can be read as a performer whose interest in listening and in performing sit side by side.
After singing in a few short-lived bands, he replied to an ad in Melody Maker; the group, Art Nouveau, would soon become Kajagoogoo. Kajagoogoo accomplished a No. 1 single with Too Shy. A stage background and an answer to a Melody Maker advert are two different routes that meet in one early career.
In an In Focus Visions interview, Limahl said that in 1986 he was signed by Clive Davis at Arista Records and turned up with a bunch of new songs, and that the label spent $200,000 recording six songs and then dropped him. In the same interview he said he was working with Tim Palmer, whom he calls a big producer now, and Dee Harris from the Birmingham band Fashion. He also said he kept a note on his phone called Song Titles, and that almost every day he thought of or heard something and wrote it down because he knew he would forget. Set beside six recorded songs that a label dropped, a note kept on a phone makes a contrast between a small private habit and a large studio spend.
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Limahl, born Christopher Hamill and raised in Wigan, is a singer who replied to an ad in Melody Maker for the group that became Kajagoogoo and also recorded as a solo singer.
After a few short-lived bands he replied to an ad in Melody Maker; the group, Art Nouveau, would soon become Kajagoogoo.
He met Giorgio Moroder at the Tokyo Music Festival while promoting his debut solo single Only for Love, and Moroder invited him to try out his voice on the theme song for the film.
Classic Pop says Kajagoogoo, the group that Art Nouveau became, accomplished a No. 1 single with Too Shy.