'Kim Wilde' is a song title - again!

Charlotte Hatherley, member of the popular UK band Ash, has started a solo career with an album called 'Grey will fade', to be released in the summer of this year. The first single is called 'Kim Wilde' and was released as a free download on her website CharlotteHatherley.com on June 7th. It offers listeners a taste of what's to come. Although the lyrics of the song do not mention the title, and thus the name Kim Wilde, there is a reference to Kim's song titles 'Kids in America' and 'Chequered love'.

However, KimWilde.com has discovered that this is not the first song to be called Kim Wilde. Back in 1989, the German punk band Feeling B released their track Kim Wilde on their album 'Hea Hoa Hoa Hea Hea Hoa'. They were working in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany back when the country was still split in two) a few years before and after the wall came down. Their track 'Kim Wilde' is a slice of punk rock with lyrics in English and (supposedly) a German dialect. The refrain goes "Kim Wilde is my mother / and who's my father / aren't you?". The sound file is available for download here.

With many thanks to Holger