The Big Breakfast’s Keith Chegwin crashes into Kims house early in the morning for their “Down Your Doorstep” segment. Kim finds herself showing her knicker drawer to the UK, ski-ing down her stairs and singing “Kids in America” in the shower!
Every woman knows (music video)
Date
14 November 1994 Channel
Kim does not sing in this song, but Lulu invited a number of wellknown artists to perform with her in the accompanying video for this minor chart hit. Along with Kim, you can also see Kim Appleby, Boy George, Jennifer Saunders and Heather Small in this video.
Kim Wilde live in Gross Gerau
Date
5 September 1994 Channel
Germany
Recorded on 3 June 1994 during Hessentag Festival in Gross Gerau, Germany, this live concert was broadcast three months later. Kim and her band perform the following songs:
Stone
View from a bridge
Chequered love
It’s here
Suburbs of Moscow
Cambodia
Love blonde
Love is holy
Water on glass
If I can’t have you
You came
You keep me hangin’ on
Kids in America
Real wild child
Kids in America is re-named “Kids in Gross Gerau” and sung as such, while Real wild child is a cover of the Iggy Pop song.
RTL Nachtshow
Date
10 June 1994 Channel
RTL (Germany)
Interview with Kim Wilde, starting off with a clip of ‘Kids in America 1994’.
You were in Germany recently but for one concert only, in Hamburg, I am happy that you’re doing a whole tour in Germany. When is that? Well, I’m actually halfway through it right now, and I finish in about two weeks time, so I’m right in the middle of it. We’ve been to Dresden, Berlin, we’ve been… everywhere! (laughs) So it’s been really great, great audiences – we were in Kiel – it’s great to stand in front of my fans after all these years.
1981. This title which we’ve just heard in a new version was your big hit. You were just 20, a beautiful blonde, very fresh with a sort of Lolita charm. What interests me, your songs you still sing yourself, but your blonde has become natural by now? Ooh… no. (Laughs). No, not exactly.
But I do understand you have become more interested in natural living. I read somewhere you have a life coach and a nutrition coach. Well I am, yeah. I mean I live in the countryside and I eat very well. When I’m not dressed in leather standing on stage I live a rather quiet life. I’m still a bit of a sucker for the peroxide, you know…
Your fans are still at your feet. I understand you were a bit shy for some time, even believed you couldn’t get on stage with the shape your body was in. Is that right, and how did you get past that? Well, there was a time when, I think shortly after I was opening for Michael Jackson, when I seriously thought about giving up being a pop star really. I got very disillusioned with fame. I seemed to have a lot of success but I wasn’t happy. I thought ‘What’s the point of being famous if you’re not happy’. So I just thought about giving it up. But that was the time when I moved out of London, back to the countryside and I realised very quickly that I love my career very very much, and the last thing I wanted to do was give it up. But for a while I felt I just wanted to retreat from it all. But I’m glad I didn’t.
So you have regained your confidence. Would you go on stage like Madonna, with sexy outfits and leather body’s? Oh, that’s not my style, I mean Madonna has her style and I have my way of doing things and I respect what she does but me, I’m very different from Madonna. The only thing we share, occasionally, is the blonde hair, and that’s it.
I think you’re more sympathetic too. Maybe a short comment on Michael Jackson. He took you on his tour with him. How did it come to that? Well I think a lot of it had to do with my long success in Europe. Most of the dates were all over Europe and I think all the local promotors there said ‘yeah get Kim on’, you know, and I fought for the gig with about five other people. I think it was actually due to my European fans that I got the gig. Michael Jackson himself really loved my version of ‘You keep me hangin’ on’ and he was kindof interested in me, I think, as an artist, but I would say that it’s my fans who got me that gig.
Did you only see him once? Is that true? Or did you meet more often? No, I only met him once. He was very shy, in fact my little brother and sister met him before I did. Which was very strange. I was just sitting there, doing my make-up, and my little sister ran in and she said ‘Kimmy, Kimmy, Kimmy, I just saw Michael Jackson!’ I said: ‘What do you mean, you just saw Michael Jackson? I’ve just been on tour with him for two weeks and I haven’t met him yet!’. Really crazy. But you know, he was very private and I think he was a bit lonely.
One last question: do you have a boyfriend? No. (Laughs)
Explosiv Telegramm
Date
9 June 1994 Channel
RTL (Germany)
Interview with Kim Wilde on location.
Bravo TV
Date
6 June 1994 Channel
RTL (Germany)
Interview with Kim Wilde, in which various videos are shown as well. Kim tells how she got the idea to record ‘If I can’t have you’.
Z TV Nytt
Date
24 May 1994 Channel
SVT (Sweden)
Short interview with Kim Wilde about her new single “Kids in America 1994” and an excerpt of that clip.
Kids in America 1994 (music video)
Date
2 May 1994 Channel
Directed by Michael Geoghegan. This remix of Kims debut single, which was only released on the European continent and Japan, was accompanied by a fast-paced, very intriguing clip. It featured lots of pictures from throughout Kims carreer, a few shots from the original Kids in America clip, but edited and resized, and also some new footage which was recorded especially for this clip.
RSVP
Date
28 April 1994 Channel
Much Music (Argentina)
Very short promo clip in which Kim says “Hi this is Kim Wilde in Argentina for the first time and you’re watching Much Music.”
Much Music (Argentina), April 28, 1994
Jugate conmigo
Date
21 April 1994 Channel
Argentina
Kim Wilde does a lipsynch performance of ‘If I can’t have you’ solo on stage.
Ritmo de la noche
Date
3 April 1994 Channel
Argentina
Kim Wilde does a lipsynch performance of ‘If I can’t have you’ solo on stage. After the performance, she is briefly interviewed.
Conexion MTV
Date
3 April 1994 Channel
MTV (Latin America)
Interview with Kim Wilde with subtitles in Spanish.