Date
25 July 1987
Channel
BBC (UK)
Kim and Junior do a lipsynch performance ‘Another step (closer to you)’, backed by a large band.
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The Krankies’ Elektronik Komik
Say you really want me (extended music video)
Date
20 July 1987
Channel
Directed by Greg Masuak.
Extended version of the Say you really want me music video, featuring more outtakes from the sessions recorded with Kim and the models.
This video was recorded in Battersea and Clapham Common. It basically consists of footage of half naked men stroking themselves and Kim, who dances with a string of (fake) pearls around her neck. Through the use of a videowall Kim sometimes dances in front of the men, and the men dance in front of Kim, who’s singing the song.
Say you really want me (music video)
Date
20 July 1987
Channel
Directed by Greg Masuak.
This video was recorded in Battersea and Clapham Common. It basically consists of footage of half naked men stroking themselves and Kim, who dances with a string of (fake) pearls around her neck. Through the use of a videowall Kim sometimes dances in front of the men, and the men dance in front of Kim, who’s singing the song.
Kenny Everett Show
Date
12 July 1987
Channel
UK
Kim appears in the show of this well-known comedian, first in a sketch where she talks a lot, while Kenny grows spiderwebs on his body waiting for her to finish, and then lipsynching ‘Say you really want me’.
American Top 10
Date
1 July 1987
Channel
USA
Climbing two notches to number 2 is Kim Wilde with her remake of the Supremes number 1 smash ‘You keep me hangin’ on’. We spoke to Kim and she told us that her version of ‘You keep me hangin’ on’ reflects a change in women’s attitude from the Sixties to the Eighties. Where Diana Ross was sad about the situation, Kim is just plain angry.
‘I think my attitude is very much one of the Eighties, which is where women are far more in control of themselves and of their lives and their destinies. [They’re] much less likely now to put up with a bad situation than there may have been, in the Sixties, where a girl was girls were primarily brought up to… you get married and you stay married and when you don’t like it you put up with it and don’t get divorced. You get married, you have children. Now it’s different. I’m not saying it’s better now, but it’s different.’
Cocoricoboy
Date
30 May 1987
Channel
TF1 (France)
After a short interview, Kim and Junior perform ‘Another step (closer to you)’.
Montreux Rock Festival 1987
Date
25 May 1987
Channel
BBC (UK)
Footage from Montreux, where Kim Wilde sang ‘You keep me hangin’ on’ and ‘Say you really want me’ live to a pre-recorded backing track.
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Date
16 May 1987
Channel
RTS (Switzerland)
Kim Wilde is filmed during a radio interview with Bruno Brookes at the Montreux Rock festival, where she will be performing ‘Another Step (closer to you)’ and ‘Say you really want me’.
Humanitarian Awards
Date
11 May 1987
Channel
BBC (UK)
Kim and Junior sing ‘Another step (closer to you)’ live to a recorded backing track during this gala for Humanitarian Awards. At the end of the show, all featured artists return on stage to sing ‘We are the world’.
Top of the Pops
Date
23 April 1987
Channel
BBC (UK)
Kim and Junior do a lipsynch performance of ‘Another step (closer to you)’ before a live studio audience.
Sky Channel
Date
18 April 1987
Channel
Sky Channel (UK)
Interview with Kim Wilde about songwriting.
(…) Something I intend to work very hard on, because although I love being in this pop star niche and it’s much fun and I enjoy it and I’m young enough to enjoy it and carry it off, but once I won’t be and there’s a lot of life to live, and since music is the reason why I’m here, and not to do this, particularly, altough this is very nice, but it is because of music and I really love music. And I want to stay in music for the rest of my life.
You may start off with an idea that’s kindof like a seed and it’s gonna go somewhere and sticking with a seed to make it go somewhere is the hardest thing. And I found that with writing it can be so demoralising, you wanna give up before it’s just blossomed you know. You only just have to keep plucking away at an idea. If you get something you just gotta really work hard at it to make it work. There’s so many songs I’ve written… I’ve done a lot of writing with my guitarist, so many songs I’ve felt like giving up on just the first chord he played. He might play something and I’d go ‘Oh, forget it’. And I learned just from experience to just work on it. Really great things can happen.
Live from the Palladium
Date
12 April 1987
Channel
ITV (UK)
Kim and Junior do a lipsynch performance of ‘Another step (closer to you)’.
