Date
21 December 1987
Channel
BBC (UK)
Kim appears as the background singer while Johnny hates Jazz perform their single ‘Turn back the clock’ in the Wogan studio. No coincidence, since Kim actually sings backing vocals in this particular track. This is the only occasion on which Kim performed the song with Johnny hates Jazz on TV.
Date
23 November 1987
Channel
BBC (UK)
Kim and Mel Smith appear in the show for an interview by Terry Wogan about their song ‘Rockin’ around the Christmas tree’ for Comic Relief.
Date
23 November 1987
Channel
Directed by Geoff Posner, this video was made for Comic Relief and the single Mel Smith and Kim Wilde released as Mel & Kim to raise money for this organization.
The video starts off when Mel Smith and Griff Rhys-Jones talk about Christmas. When Mel confesses that he would like to ‘have’ Kim for Christmas, his wish comes true.
What follows is a Christmas party in a house, where some guests appear, like Curiosity killed the cat and a couple of Spitting Image puppets.
Date
27 October 1987
Channel
USA
Short interview with Kim Wilde, in which she comments on her ‘Say you really want me’ video, her personal life and her family.
“I think the ‘Say you really want me’ video, although it is very racy and sensual and sexy, definitely, I think every woman at some point in her day or life or week, hopefully, feels like that or would like to feel like that. It’s only a natural thing for a woman to feel sexy and look sexy. To deny your sexuality and your sensuality is just as bad as displaying it to an averge fashion. Which I don’t think I’ve done, I think I’ve done it with a sense of humour.“
“You have to have a sense of humour about your sexuality. It’s not something you can take seriously. It doesn’t bring you love or, you know, all that kind of stuff. I mean, it gives you a few whistles on the street, but that’s not really enough is it?”
“My private life is something that has been as succesful as my career, which is not incredibly successful but… quite successful.”
“My personal triumps as far as personal relationships are concerned are that I have a tremendous relationship with my family, coming out of being a teenager and screaming at my mother and despairing my dad and now working with him closely and liking them as well.We go out together, we have fun together, plus respecting each other’s lives.”
“As far as men are concerned, well that’s not been quite so successful but I’m quite sortof… hopeful.”
“I haven’t allowed things to change me too much because I actually liked my life quite a lot before I became famous. I didn’t want to throw it all away, throwing my friends away and get better ones, richer ones, more famous ones, prettier ones… I didn’t want to do that.”
“I do love my fans a lot, I do, I’m very fond of them. They make me feel very special. It’s great to meet some my American fans when I was over there, doing promotion for ‘Hangin’ on’. I love it when they come back and meet me. Next time if I come on tour, and you’re around, come and see me.”
Date
16 October 1987
Channel
KRO (Netherlands)
Television show in which children do a lipsynch performance of their idol. In this edition, Kim-Lian van der Meij, who would record a cover of ‘Kids in America’ in 2005, does an impression of Kim Wilde’s ‘You keep me hangin’ on’.
Date
12 September 1987
Channel
A2 (France)
Short interview with Kim in a news program about her live performance at Courneuve during the “Fête de l’Humanité”.
Date
16 August 1987
Channel
UK
This music special, produced by Granada TV, was made to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Elvis Presley’s death. Originally made in the UK, the special was re-broadcast in many other European countries.
It starred many different artists, both in prerecorded clips and in live performances. Kim Wilde contributed three songs to this special. One of them is a prerecorded video for her version of ‘One night’. The other two songs are on-stage performances of ‘Big hunk o’ love’ and ‘Treat me nice’.
Date
12 August 1987
Channel
France
An outdoors performance by Kim and Junior of their duet ‘Another step (closer to you)’. Kim also performs ‘You keep me hangin’ on’ in front of a large audience. For the TV broadcast the album version of ‘You keep me hangin’ on’ is dubbed in. Kim starts her performance with the words: “Est-ce que vous passez un bon temps ce soir? Superbe.”
Date
8 August 1987
Channel
ITV (UK)
Kim appeared in the very first edition of The Roxy, to lipsynch ‘Say you really want me’ dressed in a stunning red dress.
Date
6 August 1987
Channel
ITV (UK)
Interview with Kim Wilde on the occasion of the release of her new single and video ‘Say you really want me’.
We got you in because your new record is out, isn’t it, and the video is a bit naughty?
Well, er, apparently, some people think it’s a bit saucy. I suppose it depends what’s going on in your mind when you look at it. (Laughs) What was going on in your mind when you looked at it, that what I’d like to know.
And it’s to accompany your song ‘Say you really want me’. Tell us a bit about that.
Well, it’s my new single, it’s currently out in America as well, and it’s number 40 or something over there right now, it went up last night quite nicely, so hopefully it will do that well over here.
You’ve just come up from the States, didn’t you?
Um, not just. But I have been there a lot, ‘Hangin’ on’ did incredibly well, so we’re hoping ‘Say you really want me’ is gonna consolidate that success. It’s the first time I’ve had real success in America in the six years that I’ve been making records. Very exciting.
Do you travel all over the States, or particular areas?
Well, I was all over the place, every state doing radio promotion. I worked really hard with ‘Hangin’ on’, it didn’t just happen. And I just spent a lot of time over there, but recently I’ve been spending a lot of time here doing various TV’s for this single and also the Elvis Presley tribute show which is on next week, which is great fun.
Yeah, you got involved with that, haven’t you? Three songs?
Yeah, that was fabulous, working with loads of different people, singing Elvis songs in a tribute to Elvis Presley.
Good that you got involved with that, because a lot of people now, young people particularly, won’t be certain as to how big Elvis was. I’m sure you grew up with your dad telling you how great he was, what a great singer he was.
Oh yeah, a great singer, with great songs, and a great time in rock history. You know, the beginning of it, virtually.
Do you still listen to Elvis Presley songs?
Oh yeah, I still listen to Elvis Presley songs and not only is he brilliant, but the people he surrounded himself with, Scotty Moore and Bill Black, his musicians, so he was a real innovator of his time, you know. And some of his records were the first records where he used things like echo and all kinds of effects on guitars that have mashed people’s ears at the time, it’s stuff that we take for granted now, because it’s pretty run of the mill, but at the time it was quite phenomenal.
Sounds as though it influenced you quite a lot.
Well yeah, he’s much loved in our family. We all love him.
You’re making a few friends now yourself, aren’t you? You mentioned America, they love you over there, don’t they?
I hope so… I haven’t been back there since I got to number one… So I’m quite looking forward to doing that. That’ll be fun.
You’re not like Samantha Fox, who came to our programme last week and said she’s huge down under and big in Japan.
Yes… It’s a very good quote, Sam, isn’t it? No, she’s very successful everywhere, in fact we’re both big everywhere. (Laughs)
(…)
Kim’s video performance has been banned by one TV programme fpr being too raunchy for kids. And it’s even too wild for TVAM, Kim Wilde.
Oh you’re kidding. You mean you drive me all the way down here and you’re not gonna put a bit on the telly? (Laughs)
We’ve all been watching it subliminary.
…It’ll wake everybody up!
What’s it all about? Is it all a lot of fuss about nowt, or do you think it’s a bit naughty?
We didn’t make it on purpose to get it banned or anything, it hasn’t really been banned except for one kids programme, I think it will be played, it will be on the box in a few weeks’ time. It’s not like the same controversy that surrounded the George Michael thing, it’s not meant to either. I feel I have got some good press out of it, and it is quite steamy.
It’s a bit raunchy, isn’t it?
Yeah… But it would be quite boring if pop music started becoming incredibly safe and santized.
How do you answer your critics then, who say you deliberately go out to make a raunchy video, to get it banned, so that everybody wants to see it and it goes to number one?
Well, er, I don’t know if that’s a criticism really or a compliment. If you achieve it and do it well, then I’d say, yes!
Obviously, we’re all being deadly serious right now, aren’t we, crikey, but…
It’s a bit of fun, really, it wasn’t meant to be taken so seriously.
But I guess it’s the climate now, isn’t it Kim? The climate nowadays is that people are just watching it a bit, being a bit careful because of the feeling they’ve got enormous responsibilities with the people that watch them and buy their songs?
I think everybody has an enormous responsibility to their kids, you know. And when the kids TV show says that they didn’t want the video in the program, I thought, okay, fine. If it’s too naughty for the nine-year-olds, I’m with that. If that’s what they feel. Except personally I don’t agree with that. I think there’s far more disturbing things that are televised than me having a good time on a video. And it isn’t an obscene video at all, it’s about having fun and enjoying pop music and enjoying a video as well.
You’ve got two younger sisters as well, haven’t you? I presume you wouldn’t…
Roxanne is eight and my brother’s seven and they’ve watched it and the way they see it is that Kim is on there and I look nice and I look like I’m having fun and… It’s not in their minds that it’s bad. It’s probably in your mind.
Tell us about the song.
Well, ‘Say you really want me’ I recorded about a year ago for the soundtrack of ‘Running Scared’, which is kindof a sleeping track on the album. And I’ve just decided to release it. It’s doing well in America, and what with the video and everything it’s all going nicely!
I’ve got an idea. Shall we listen?
And the video!
Well, er… We’ve actually edited your video so carefully you won’t sense it happening. You might see a lot of pictures of young children instead. But it’s our interpretation of your video (laughs). What a stupid lie! (Laughs) (‘Say you really want me’ played over pictures of children who are celebrating their birthday on the day.)
Date
1 August 1987
Channel
USA
Kim’s first ever TV appearance in the USA, on 1 August 1987. She does a lipsynch performance of ‘You keep me hangin’ on’ before a live studio audience.
Date
1 August 1987
Channel
Japan
Japanese broadcast of Kim’s performance of ‘You keep me hangin’ on’ in the American programme Solid gold. Both the performance and the short interview clips before and after the performance are subtitled in Japanese. It is unclear whether the interview was originally broadcast in the USA too.
