Former hospital in Welwyn Garden City, managed by East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. It was replaced in 2015 by the New QE2 Hospital. The old hospital was demolished.

In 2007, Vicki Adkins and Kim Wilde open the breast cancer unit at the QE2 Hospital. The unit was built between the Trust and the Hertfordshire Breast Unit Appeal and was named after its founder, Vicki Adkins. Kim was a patron of the charity and co-designed a garden for the facility. Vicki Adkins was the leading lady of the charity, who single-handedly badgered and coerced the community into donating more than £1million.

The unit was subsequently moved to the New QE2 Hospital, while the charity continues to raise funds for new equipment.

Born on 6 January 1978 in Berkshire, England (UK), Baz realized his interest in music at a very young age, when he was taking the lead in many school plays. After college, he joined a boy band called One-Way. The group lasted for half a year. One notable collaboration that Baz undertook after that, was with R’n’B group Third Edge, where he provided guest vocals on one of their tracks, and Thomas from Third Edge provided a rap on a track that Baz had recorded.

In late 2003, he worked on solo material, including a cover of Kylie Minogue’s 1989 hit, ‘Hand On Your Heart’. This track was the main reason for Atomic Kitten to ask him to support them on tour in 2004. After this, he started recording his debut solo album, which was due to be released in 2005. The album would include a cover of Kim Wilde’s song You Came, plus ‘Positive Reaction’, a cover of the Mandy Smith song written by Stock Aitken and Waterman in 1989. The latter track was actually released in 2005 as a DJ promo only single and playlisted by Capital Radio & PWL Radio.
The album never came to pass and Baz faded back to anonymity.

Live double CD released by Status Quo in cooperation with Live Here Now, a service that records live concerts and sells them as CD’s and digital downloads. Recorded at the O2 Arena in London on 11 December 2011, this double CD features one track performed with Roy Wood and Kim Wilde as the last track on CD2. It’s a medley of Winter Wonderland and Santa Claus is Coming to Town.

Roy and Kim were touring with Status Quo as part of the Quofestive Tour in December 2011. After performing their own sets as support acts, they would come back on stage together with Status Quo at the end of their set to perform these two songs. This is the only officially released recording of such a performance.

Born as Susan Kay Quatrocchio, 3 June 1950, Detroit, Michigan (USA), Suzi Quatro is an American singer-songwriter, musician, radio personality and actress.

Born into a Catholic musical family, Quatro’s father, Art Quatro was a part time jazz musician of Italian descent, while her mother, Helen Sanislay, was Hungarian. Quatro began her musical career in the all-female band Pleasure Seekers and Cradle with her sisters Patti, Nancy, and Arlene. Patti Quatro later joined the band Fanny, one of the earliest all-female rock bands to gain national attention in America. She has a brother, Michael Quatro, who is also a musician.

Quatro moved to the UK in 1971 after being discovered in Detroit by record producer Mickie Most, famous for producing many artists such as The Animals, Jeff Beck, Lulu and Donovan. By this time he had started his own label RAK Records, which made stars of many artists.

Quatro’s first single ‘Rolling Stone’ was a flop everywhere except Portugal, where it made number one. Mickie Most then introduced Quatro to the songwriting/production team Nicky Chinn and Mike Chapman. Her second single ‘Can the Can’ (1973) was a number one hit throughout Europe and in Australia. It was followed up by another major hit: 48 Crash (1973). The singles ‘Daytona Demon’ (1973) and ‘Devil Gate Drive’ (1974) were just as successful. Her first two albums were also huge European and Australian successes.

These recordings, however, met little success in her native U.S., despite her tours in the mid-1970s supporting Alice Cooper, and, except in Australia, the popularity of Quatro’s hard rocking glam rock style declined rapidly from 1975. Meanwhile, she did enjoy some success as a session player.

Quatro’s fortunes did not revive until 1978 when ‘If You Can’t Give Me Love’ was a Top Ten hit in the UK and Australia. Though this still failed to break Quatro in the States, when she joined Chris Norman of Smokie in 1978 for ‘Stumblin’ In’, she had a #4 hit there with RSO Records. This success was very brief and her last solo hit (and that only in Australia) was ‘Rock Hard’ in early 1981.

In February 2006, Quatro released ‘Back to the drive’, which was produced by Sweet guitarist Andy Scott. The album’s title track was written by Mike Chapman. Later that year, a documentary chronicling Quatro’s life and career, ‘Naked Under Leather’ was released.

In March 2007, she released her version of The Eagles’ ‘Desperado’, followed by the release of her autobiography entitled ‘Unzipped’.

Founded in 2001 in Biel, Switzerland, the Swiss punk band QL is comprised of Pät (bass, vocals), Stämpf (guitar, vocals), Sägi (guitar), and Tosi (drums). They debuted in 2004 with the album ‘Heimatschutz’, a collection of covers, performed in Swiss German dialect and in a punk style. The album was a big hit, peaking at number six on the Swiss albums chart. The follow-up albums ‘Luscht’ (2005) and ‘Schwi!zerchracher’ (2007) were also big hits, both peaking at number three on the Swiss charts.

Following some time away, QL returned in 2010 with their fourth album, ‘Humba Tätärä’ (2010), another top five hit. In 2011, they released ‘Mach Lut!’, which included the track ‘Generika’, a version of Kim Wilde’s Kids in America with alternative lyrics in Swiss German.

Born as Stacey Lynn Swain on 30 November 1958 in Orange County California. She had formal dance training in the early 1970’s and worked in the Dance Theatre of Orange County from 1969 to 1974. At the turn of the decade, Stacey joined the band Q (which changed its name to SSQ after legal wrangles). A four track EP entitled “The Q EP” (1982) and a full-length album “Playback” (1983) were recorded, after which Stacey took on her stage name Stacey Q. She recorded a cassette that was sold at her live shows in 1986. One of the tracks included on this cassette was a version of Kim Wilde’s song Dancing in the Dark. It also included an early version of the song ‘Two of hearts’. The live shows and the cassette drew the attention of record company Atlantic Records. She signed a contract and started recording her debut album. It included ‘Two of hearts’, but not ‘Dancing in the dark’. The former became a huge hit, opening up Stacey’s career – but only briefly. The albums ‘Better than heaven’ (1986), ‘Hard machine’ (1988) and ‘Nights like this’ (1989) showed a steady decline in popularity. A greatest hits compilation in 1995 and a comeback album entitled ‘Boomerang’ (1997) were attempts to revive her career, but without much success.