Kim is introduced by two French children speaking broken english. Kim sings the song ‘Child come away’ live to a recorded backing track: the instrumental version of the song. She is backed by a bassist, a keyboard player/saxophone player and a drummer. After the performance, the two children return and have a short interview with Kim.

Can we ask questions, Kim Wilde?
Yeah.

How are you?
I’m very well, thank you.

How old are you?
I’m 22 years old.

 

Kim Wilde lipsynchs to ‘Cambodia’, ‘Dancing in the dark’ and ‘Love blonde’ in the Grand Premiere studio. She is backed by a guitarist, drummer and keyboardplayer probably from France. She wears a black top with bare shoulders and trousers with a broad belt. Halfway through the song the end credits of the show start rolling under. At the end of the show she walks away from the stage with the show’s presenter.

Kim lipsynchs to ‘Dancing in the dark’. She is backed by two keyboard players and a drummer. They are performing in front of a live studio audience. Kim is wearing a black jacket and dark trousers. After the performance, Kim is briefly interviewed and asked to comment on two young girls, one of which is dressed up like Boy George.

 

Short interview with Dirk Nobus, who made a surrealistic painting of Kim. He’s also made paintings of other celebrities, such as Linda Gray and Barbra Streisand. Kim appears and congratulates Dirk on his work, and then proceeds to do a lipsynch performance of ‘Love blonde’, dressed in the trademark ‘Love blonde’ black leather dress.

Brief interview with Kim in English, with Finnish subtitles. Kim tells about her musical influences and the use of videos to promote her records.

(…) How old were you then?
I think I was about 9 or 10, or 10 or 11. I was quite lucky because before that, my mum and dad had a lot of records in the house so I didn’t have to sort of go out and buy too many. But I think those were the first records I bought.

You are wellknown for your videos, at least in Finland. Do you think it’s good or bad that they make so much about videos these days?
Well, on a practical level it’s very good for me because it means that people can see me in loads of different countries without me having to go there all the time, which makes life a lot easier for me, because although I do a lot of travelling it’s impossible to go to all countries where I’m having success at the same time. And that’s why videos are a very good medium to help me take the workload off my back. But also they can be good to express – get a thought across to people in a visual way. But I think sometimes it doesn’t work at all. I think some videos have the exact opposite effect and they complely take away a lot of the mystery of a song. But I think others have a positive effect. It’s just down to who’s got the good ideas and how they’re put across. So it’s a dodgy business. Most videos, I think, that are made are very kind of average.

(Video for ‘Love blonde’ is shown.)

Short interview clip in MTV News. The presenter talks about a possible collaboration between Adam Ant and Kim Wilde on a music video, then a short clip follows in which Kim talks about the first video she ever made.

“‘Kids in America’, the first time I made a film as such, I was very very nervous and I just didn’t know what to do. I went into the studio and Brian Grant, the guy who directed it, he said ‘Don’t worry’ and I said ‘You’re gonna tell me exactly what to do, I got no idea’. Of course when the camera started rolling I suddenly became terribly, sort of, natural with it and I couldn’t believe it, I thought it would be a lot more” [cut]