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10 day detox with Kim Wilde

One hour programme in which Kim Wilde and Michael van Straten, “the leading practitioner of complementary medicine in the UK”, explain the process of detoxing. The video promised to “set you on the path to better health, boost your energy and resistance, while replenishing and rebuilding lifelong vitality.” The plan includes daily menus and recipes and advice on supplements, along with therapeutic beauty treatment ideas and exercise advice.

The programme was released on VHS video and DVD format. A special edition of the DVD was produced for the Marks & Spencer stores in the UK, featuring an extra chapter dedicated to Michael van Straten’s top 10 juices.


80s: Alles Over De Jaren Tachtig (de)

Book, published by Kosmos/Z&K and written by Marjolein van Rotterdam. The book is all about the Eighties, featuring chapters on music, politics, radio & television, arts & culture, sports, food, drugs and fashion. Features a photograph of Kim Wilde (one quarter page). The enclosed cd features 18 songs from the Eighties, including Kim Wilde’s Kids in America.

Release date: 1 June 2005
Written by: Marjolein van Rotterdam
Publisher: Kosmos/Z&K
Number of pages: 144
ISBN: 9021581817


80’s Rewind Festival

Concert programme for the 80’s Rewind Festival, which took place at Temple Island Meadows, Henley-on-Thamas on 21, 22 and 23 August 2009. A Kim Wilde biography of one page is included in this programme.

Release date: 21 August 2009
Publisher: Rewind Festival
Number of pages: 32


1-2-3-4

Photo retrospective of Anton Corbijn, photographer of pop and rock stars, on the occasion of a retrospective exhibition at the Photo Museum in The Hague (Netherlands). It features many different artists, including Kim Wilde on one page.

Release date: 20 March 2015
Written by: Anton Corbijn
Publisher: Hannibal
Number of pages: 352
ISBN: 9782365110846


60’s World

Song written by Marty Wilde.
Third track on Marty’s album Running Together and recorded as a duet with Kim.

Versions

There are two versions of ’60’s World’: the album version and an earlier version that was released on a promotional CD for the album ‘Running Together’. In that version, the line ‘Back in the ’60s baby’ is sung as ‘Oh won’t you be my baby’.

Music video

A music video was filmed to promote the song. It was directed by Kim Wilde.
See this page for more information.

Marty about ’60’s World’

’60’s World’ is my way of celebrating Joyce, the woman that I’ve loved, and who’s been the rock of our family, for 60 years. It’s 60 years since the start of the decade, 60 years we’ve been married and 60 years since our gorgeous Kim was born. Every day of my life has been special with Joyce and the family and I wanted to go back to 1960, where it all began. And what better way to celebrate than by bringing back the sound of the 60s with a modern twist. (1)

Credits

Guitar: Neville Marten
Bass: Roger Newell
Drums: Neil Robinson
Keyboards: Ricky Wilde
Additional keyboards, guitar: David Doll
Electric guitar: Marty Wilde
Additional vocals: Roxanne Rizzo Wilde

Interview sources

(1) The Wilde Bunch: Marty’s first duet with daughter Kim. Daily Mirror (UK), 8 August 2020


Lyrics

(Back in the 60’s baby)
That was the sound of the song I heard
Old memories were running free
They seem to follow me

They’re here again
They’re playing around with my feelings and then
I look for escape but I find
I’m locked in a 60’s world

And now just like before
Out of my head, somewhere on the floor
Old memories you’re haunting me
Oh won’t you let me be

You’re here again
You’re playing around with my feelings and then
I look for a door I can’t find
I’m locked in a 60’s world

Last night when dreams are softly spoken
I saw someone who once was me

I wanna go right back again
I wanna take you there
I wanna show you and then
I wanna take your hand
Put your hand in mine
Come on let’s go
Why don’t we go back again?

(Back in the 60’s baby)
That was the sound of the song I heard
Old memories you’re haunting me
You gotta set me free

You’re here again
You’re playing around with my feelings and then
I look for escape I can’t find
I’m locked in a 60’s world

These were the sounds and the songs I’m singing
Thinking of joy and the love they’re bringing
Crazy days, best of times
It was a better world
The place to be

I’m going back to live in the 60’s world…

1969

Song written by Ricky & Kim Wilde.
First track on the album Here Come the Aliens.
The intro of the song features parts of the song Numinous.

Versions

Two versions of ‘1969’ were released: the album version and a live version, recorded live in Zurich, on the album Aliens Live.

Live performances

‘1969’ was performed live in 2018 and 2019, during the Here Come the Aliens Tour and during the Return of the Aliens Tour.

Kim about ‘1969’

1969 is a song that has a few influences. First of all, I was nine years old when man landed on the moon and I was there watching it with my mum and dad, as a little girl on the TV and I could not believe my eyes. It had a massive impact on me and I’ve been fascinated by the moon and all things to do with space ever since. It was further compounded by a UFO sighting in 2009. So ‘Here come the aliens’ was also inspired by that. ‘1969’ is a song about the aliens may be coming down and kicking us off the planet, because we’ve made such a mess of things. (Track by track video, Facebook, March 10, 2018)

Credits

Drums: Jonathan Atkinson
Bass: Paul Cooper
Guitar: Neil Jones
Keyboards, guitar: Ricky Wilde
Backing vocals: Kim Wilde, Ricky Wilde, Scarlett Wilde
Voice over: Hal Fowler


Lyrics

I’m sitting on the sofa with my eyes wide open watching
black and white T.V.
It’s 1969 and two men are walking on the Sea of Tranquility.
Can it be they really got a man to walk on the moon?
Now my Mum and Dad say go to bed little girl, but my
heads in a whirl…

I know they’re watching me,
I know they’re watching me,
I know they’re hiding out there somewhere in the galaxy.
They’re out there in the stars,
Maybe they come from Mars?
Here come the Aliens! Here come the Aliens!
They’ve all been waiting there living for millenniums.
Maybe they’ll save us from the apocalypse when it comes.
A revelation that will really blow our minds!
Here come the Aliens. Here come the Aliens.
Here come the Aliens!
Ahh yeah.

And now there’s no avoiding, our planet we’re destroying,
A stupid human race.
They’re gonna all come down, take over the world, throw
us out into intergalactic space.
It’s too late!
So say your last goodbyes as you look to the skies.
You know they tried to warn us so many times,
Say goodbye to mankind.

I know they’re watching me,
I know they’re watching me,
I know they’re hiding out there somewhere in the galaxy.
They’re out there in the stars,
Maybe they come from Mars?
Here come the Aliens! Here come the Aliens!
They’ve all been waiting there living for millenniums.
Maybe they’ll save us from the apocalypse when it comes.
A revelation that will really blow our minds!
Here come the Aliens. Here come the Aliens.
Here come the Aliens!
Ahh yeah.

Here come the Aliens! Here come the Aliens!
Here come the Aliens! Here come the Aliens!

Oooh they’re coming after me, they’re coming after me,
I know they’re hiding out there, somewhere in the galaxy,
They’re out there in the stars,
Maybe they come from Mars?
Here come the Aliens! Here come the Aliens!
They’ve all been waiting there living for millenniums.
Maybe they’ll save us from the apocalypse when it comes.
A revelation that will really blow our minds!

Here come the Aliens.
Here come the Aliens.
Here come the Aliens!

80’s Re:covered

Compilation album, released on 13 November 2015. The album presents artists from the Eighties, along with their original teams, to record their favourite songs from any decade. The album features tracks by ABC, Black, Belinda Carlisle, Kim Carnes, China Crisis, Curiosity killed the cat, Samantha Fox, Go West, Heaven 17, Johnny Hates Jazz, Wang Chung and Kim Wilde.

Kim Wilde contributes a cover version of Love Will Keep Us Together.

The album was released as a 2cd album, with disc one featuring the original versions and disc two featuring remixes.


48 Crash

Song written by Chinn and Chapman, one of the most successful songwriter teams in the 1970’s. The track was originally recorded by Suzi Quatro as her second single. It was included on her debut album ‘Suzi Quatro’ (1973). The single peaked at number three in the UK in August 1973 and was number one in Australia for one week.

Kim Wilde performed this track during two live concerts in Austria in August 2004.


25 Jaar Popmuziek: 1983

In a series of books about 25 years of pop music (starting in 1963) the year 1982 is described in this book. It consists of several two page descriptions of artists that were popular during this year. Kim Wilde is mentioned once in this book, along with a photograph. The book is entirely in Dutch.

Release date: 1 June 1988
Publisher: Lekturama
Number of pages: 124


25 Jaar Popmuziek: 1982

In a series of books about 25 years of pop music (starting in 1963) the year 1982 is described in this book. It consists of several two page descriptions of artists that were popular during this year. Kim Wilde is mentioned a few times in this book. There is also a page with a photograph of Kim next to the introduction of the book, plus an article of two pages about Kim with two photographs. The book is entirely in Dutch.

Release date: 1 May 1989
Publisher: Lekturama
Number of pages: 124


25 Jaar Popmuziek: 1981

In a series of books about 25 years of pop music (starting in 1963) the year 1981 is described in this book. It consists of several two page descriptions of artists that were popular during this year. Kim Wilde appears on two pages: an article with two photographs. The book is entirely in Dutch.

Release date: 1 March 1989
Publisher: Lekturama
Number of pages: 124


20 Classic Tracks

This compilation, released in 1996 by EMI Records and made exclusively for Boots, a chain of pharmacy stores in the United Kingdom, was a repackaging of the Gold Collection, containing the albums Kim Wilde and Select.
The sleeve photograph was taken in 1995 and the background is a stock photograph of a city area, possibly New York.

Tracks

This album contains the tracks Kids in America, Chequered Love, Water on Glass, Everything We Know, Young Heroes, 2 6 5 8 0, You’ll Never Be So Wrong, Falling Out, Tuning in Tuning on, Ego, View From a Bridge, Words Fell Down, Action City, Just a Feeling, Chaos at the Airport, Take Me Tonight, Can You Come Over, Wendy Sadd, Our Town and Cambodia Reprise.

Formats

’20 Classic Tracks’ was released on CD and tape.
See also this page in the discography for more information.