Kiko & Niko are a DJ and remix producer duo from Tuscany, Italy. In July 2024 they released a cover version of You Came, featuring vocals by Julia Hime.
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Kim Wilde & Lemonade
Song written and recorded by Matt Julian. Home demo released on the album December & I on Bandcamp in December 2022.
Lyrics
I’ve changed the locks now anyway
You don’t get back inside again
I tore your poster down
I took the longest way around
Two boxers can’t fight another round
No heart, no punches, no knockdown
Sometimes it’s hard to see when she paints her eyelids green
The actress in the song just keeps me hanging on and on
Sweet like Kim Wilde and lemonade
Sweet like Kim Wilde and lemonade
You’ll still have your songs anyway
Confused or not, I’m not afraid
Don’t leave your hair too long
Don’t taste the sadness on your tongue
Sometimes it’s hard to see when she paints her eyelids green
The actress in the song just keeps me hanging on and on
Sweet like Kim Wilde and lemonade
Sweet like Kim Wilde and lemonade
Sweet like Kim Wilde and lemonade
Kim Wilde (Cosmetics song)
Song written and performed by Cosmetics, a band from Atlanta, Georgia (USA). The song features vocals with lots of reverb and a sound not unlike The Cure. The track appears on the band’s album WATTS, released in 2017.
Kim Wilde: Beyond the Glitter and Gold
Kim Wilde: Beyond the Glitter and Gold is a book written by Amanda Geraldine and published in 2024. The text was most probably generated by AI. The book has no illustrations except for the cover, on which Kim looks almost unrecognizable.
Release date: 8 January 2024
Written by: Amanda Geraldine
Publisher: Independently published / Amazon Fulfilment
Number of pages: 34
ISBN: 9798874382643
Klassfesten
Klassfesten (‘The Class Reunion’) is a Swedish comedy drama movie from 2002, directed by Måns Herngren and Hannes Holm and starring Björn Kjellman, Cecilia Frode, Inday Ba, Henrik Hjelt, Lisa Lindgren and Ulf Friberg. In the movie, 35-year old Magnus Edkvist hates class reunions as much as anyone and usually skips them. Still he accepts an invitation for a reunion for a class he left over twenty years ago. But he has his reasons, as there is a chance that his teen love Hillevi will show up. The girl he wanted to run away with and share the rest of his life.
The soundtrack of the movie features the song Cambodia by Kim Wilde, as well as tracks by David Bowie, The Sweet, Cat Stevens and The Specials.
Keuze Van Janine Jansen (de)
Book in which 22 celebrities write a story about their favourite classical work. Kim Wilde describes the Romeo and Juliet Overture by Tchaikovsky in two pages.
Release date: 1 November 2009
Publisher: Nieuw Amsterdam
Number of pages: 124
ISBN: 9789046806630
Book description:
Janine Jansen, world famous violinist, has asked 75 famous people from home and abroad to entrust them to the paper (following books such as Stranded, Rock and Roll for a Desert Island and Groeten van Rottumerplaat. The decisive album according to a hundred writers). what they think is the most beautiful piece of classical music of all time and why this made a big impression on them. Part of the proceeds of the book will go to a good cause: Music in Me (www.musicinme.net).
Kim Wilde, Nik Kershaw: Tour of Australia 2013
This Australian tour booklet contains many pictures of Kim Wilde and Nik Kershaw. They both contribute an introduction and answer a questionnaire. Bios of Ricky Wilde and Scarlett Wilde are also included.
Release date: 16 October 2013
Number of pages: 16
Kids in Australia
Song written by Ricky & Marty Wilde, and adapted by the band Game Over. Cover version of Kids in America.
Their version was released on their 1998 album ‘Shotgun’, featuring eight original songs and this cover version. (plus a hidden track, a cover version of the ‘Sesame Street’ theme tune).
Lyrics
Looking out a dirty old window
Down below the cars in the city go rushing by
I sit here alone
And I wonder why
Friday night and everyone’s moving
I can feel the heat but it’s shooting
Heading down
I search for the beat in this dirty town
Down town, the young ones are going
Down town, the young ones are growing
We’re the kids in Australia
We’re the kids in Australia
Everybody live for the music-go-round
Bright lights the music gets faster
Look boy, don’t check on your watch
Not another glance
I’m not leaving now, honey not a chance
Hot-shot, give me no problems
Much later baby you’ll be saying never mind
You know life is cruel, life is never kind
Kind hearts don’t make a new story
Kind hearts don’t grab any glory
We’re the kids in Australia
We’re the kids in Australia
Everybody live for the music-go-round
Come closer, honey that’s better
Got to get a brand new experience
Feeling right
Oh don’t try to stop, baby, hold me tight
Outside a new day is dawning
Outside Suburbia’s sprawling everywhere
I don’t want to go baby
New York to East California
There’s a new wave coming I warn ya
We’re the kids in Australia
We’re the kids in Australia
Everybody live for the music-go-round
We’re the kids
We’re the kids
We’re the kids in Australia
Kizooks
An anonymous group of singers and musicians under the name of Kizooks released an album of Eighties cover versions in 2004. Entitled ‘Super Huge, Very Big Hits’, the album contained cover versions of ‘What I like about you’, ‘Walkin’ on sunshine’, ‘Walk like an Egyptian’ and Kids in America, amongst others.
The identity of the singers remains undisclosed. There were no other albums by Kizooks, although ‘Walk like an Egyptian’ did end up on a compilation album released by Koch Records in 2005.
Kids in Quarantine
Cover version of Kim Wilde’s Kids in America, recorded by Joe Trey. The song features an altered title and altered lyrics. The newly written lyrics were made by Joe Trey.
The track was released on 21 May 2020 as a video on YouTube. The song describes the events during the global crisis caused by the coronavirus Covid-19.
Lyrics
Stuck inside, nowhere I can go now
Not outside, the government they just tell me no
Shelter in place for a little while
Friday night and nobody’s groovin’
Stores are closed and nobody’s moving or gettin’ down
Netflix and takeout is all we got
Inside the young ones are groaning
Inside the parents are moaning
We’re the kids stuck in quarantine
We’re the kids stuck in quarantine
Everybody’s dreaming just to go out
Each day is just like the other
Soon call teachers and grandmothers when will it end?
I can’t remember what day it is
Homework and virtual classrooms
Principal’s now my mom and my dad, now help me please
This life is cruel when you’re stuck inside
Inside the young ones are groaning
Inside the parents are moaning
We’re the kids stuck in quarantine
We’re the kids stuck in quarantine
Everybody’s dreaming just to go out
I’m a parent working from home now
Once laid off, they’re calling in furlough just for now
I’m wondering when things will be alright
Kids are home, I’m pulling my hair out
Where’s my phone, it’s stolen again now give it back!
I’m clearly riding this crazy train
Outside it looks so inviting
Wear a mask if you go out shopping
My kids stuck in quarantine – with me!
Your kids stuck in quarantine – with you!
Everybody’s dreaming just to go out
Knees up Mother Brown
Song originally published in 1938, by which time it had already been known for some years. It dates back to at least 1918 and appears to have been sung widely in London on November 11 of that year, Armistice Night, at the end of the First World War. The 1938 version was attributed to Bert Lee, Harris Weston and I. Taylor.
The song became popular in English public houses and was particularly associated with Cockney culture. During the Second World War it was performed frequently by Elsie and Doris Waters. It was also later performed on television by Noel Harrison and Petula Clark singing as a duo.
The expression “knees up” came to mean a party or a dance. Originally, the phrase referred to the position of the woman in sexual intercourse.
During the radio programme ‘Jammin”, broadcast on BBC Radio 2 on 31 August 2006, Kim was invited to perform this song in the style of Marilyn Monroe. She combined the song with a few lines from Chas & Dave’s ‘The Sideboard Song’.
Lyrics
Knees up Mother Brown
Knees up Mother Brown
Under the table you must go
Ee-aye, Ee-aye, Ee-aye-oh
If I catch you bending
I’ll saw your legs right off
Knees up, knees up
Don’t get the breeze up
Knees up Mother Brown
I don’t care
I don’t care
I don’t care if he comes round here
I’ve got my beer in the sideboard here
Let your mother sort it out
If she comes round here
Kurz
The Swedish duo Kurz released an album called ‘Volume 1’ in 2016, featuring only cover versions of songs from the Eighties. One of the tracks on the album was a cover version of Cambodia.