Book, compiled by Cliff Jones and based on his photographs of residents of Perranporth. The first edition of this book was published in 1983. Four decades later, an updated and expanded version saw the light.
Of special interest to Kim Wilde fans are two pages with photographs taken during the shooting of the music video for ‘Child Come Away’ on the beach.

Release date: 2023
Written by: Cliff Jones
Number of pages: 80
Book description:
A revised collection of black and white photographs recording life in a Cornish coastal town, Perranporth 1982/83.

Song written by Ricky Wilde, Darren Gilbert, Scarlett Wilde and Kim Wilde.
First single from the album Closer, released on 31 January 2025.

Formats

‘Trail of destruction’ was released as digital download and on a limited edition 7` single.

Versions

There are three versions of ‘Trail of Detruction’: the album version and a radio edit.

Artwork

The cover of the single is based on a photograph by Sean J. Vincent.

Music video

A music video was filmed to promote the single.
A short teaser, featuring a scene from the music video, was released a few days before the release of the single.

Kim about ‘Trail of Destruction´

“I wanted a connection to Stone from my ‘Close’ album in 1988 as well as referencing Jack Black’s 60’s referencing “Sticking it to the man” speech from ‘School Of Rock’. ‘Stone’ was a protest about the “man” taking ownership of our planet and not keeping their promises to stop messing it up. ‘Trail Of Destruction’ is a protest for a new generation.”

Credits

Drums: Jonathan Atkinson
Bass: Paul Cooper
Guitar: Ricky Wilde and Neil Jones
Keyboards, programming: Ricky Wilde
Backing vocals: Scarlett Wilde

The pub rock band Tři Sestry formed in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1985. As one of the country’s most popular rock bands, they played live extensively and have released over a dozen albums between 1985 and now.

The band consists of František Moravec, Tomáš Doležal, Veronika Borovková, Ronald Seitl, Zdeněk Petr, Franta Vrána, Martin Roušar and Rostislav Cerman.

Their 1993 album 25:01, which coincidentally lasts exactly for 25 minutes and one second, starts with an 18 second clip from Kim Wilde’s Kids in America, followed by the track ‘Widle’, which is a two minute cover version of the song by the band.

Since then, they have released new albums roughly every two years.

Concert programme for the THW sports gala on August 29, 2009 in Kiel, Germany. A Kim Wilde biography of one page is included in this programme.

Release date: 29 August 2009
Publisher: Starnights Entertainment
Number of pages: 24

In 2002, Kim Wilde appeared in an advertorial for Tesco’s Plant Therapy range. The one page advertorial was made to promote a range of 11 natural treatment products for “relaxation and indulgence”. The copy cleverly linked Kim’s busy life as a mother and a gardener to the benefits of flowers, leaves, herbs, oils, fruits and spices.

The advertorial was printed in glossy magazines in the UK for a short period of time.

Weekly music show, broadcast online on Thursdays at 7pm between 5 November and 10 December 2020. The show was masterminded by Mike Stock and Mike Read, who were inspired by the format of the legendary TV show Top of the Pops. The show features various artists that are listed in the Heritage Chart, a chart made up of songs by artists who were immensely popular during the last century but sometimes have trouble being played on current ‘hit’ radio stations.

Kim, Marty and Roxanne appeared in the second and fourth edition of the show, broadcast on 12 November and 26 November 2020 respectively. In the second edition they performed the song 60’s World, and in the fourth edition they performed Cambodia and Bad Boy.

Masami Tsuchiya (土屋 昌巳) is a Japanese singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late Seventies as the lead vocalist and guitarist in the group Ippu-Do. His subsequent output includes solo work and collaborations. Tsuchiya has worked with artists as diverse as English new wave rockers Japan and Bill Nelson, Japanese electronica composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, Duran Duran side-project Arcadia, and Japanese rock band Buck-Tick.

In 1982, he wrote the song Bitter Is Better together with Bill Crunchfield, recorded by Kim Wilde for a Japanese commercial and released as a single.

In March 2008, Tsuchiya formed the rock band Vitamin-Q along with Kazuhiko Kato, Gota Yashiki, Rei Ohara and Anza. However, after Kato’s suicide on 17 October 2009, the fate of the group is uncertain.

In June 2010, following news of former collaborator Mick Karn‘s (former Japan bassist) cancer diagnosis, Tsuchiya reunited with former bandmates Gota Yashiki, Vivian Hsu, and Masahide Sakuma (of Japanese new wave group Plastics) and recorded two songs for a proposed September 2010 release to raise funds for Karn and his family. The musicians had recorded together as The d.e.p. in the early 2000s, releasing the album “Shinkei Stop” in 2001.

Chart of the best pop songs of all times, according to listeners of the Dutch radio station Radio 2. The first edition was broadcast in 1999 at the end of the century. This broadcast was so popular that the chart became an annual tradition in the last week of every year. The list is compiled by votes from listeners of the station. Through the years, several songs by Kim Wilde made the chart.

1999
559. Cambodia

2000
423. Cambodia
728. Kids in America

2001
513. Cambodia
1614. Kids in America

2002
768. Cambodia
1930. Kids in America

2003
603. Cambodia
1211. Kids in America

2004
919. Cambodia
1134. Kids in America

2005
856. Anyplace Anywhere Anytime
975. Cambodia
1101. Kids in America

2006
380. Anyplace Anywhere Anytime
1131. Cambodia
1576. Kids in America

2007
811. Anyplace Anywhere Anytime
1105. Cambodia
1746. Kids in America

2008
868. Anyplace Anywhere Anytime
922. Cambodia
1409. Kids in America

2009
753. Anyplace Anywhere Anytime
1175. Cambodia

2010
736. Anyplace Anywhere Anytime
1037. Cambodia

2011
795. Anyplace Anywhere Anytime
1268. Cambodia

2012
664. Anyplace Anywhere Anytime
1335. Cambodia

2013
699. Anyplace Anywhere Anytime
1307. Cambodia

2014
779. Anyplace Anywhere Anytime
1255. Cambodia

2015
881. Anyplace Anywhere Anytime
1225. Cambodia

2016
999. Anyplace Anywhere Anytime
1213. Cambodia

2017
969. Anyplace Anywhere Anytime
1126. Cambodia

2018
1142. Cambodia

2019
1305. Cambodia

2020
900. Anyplace Anywhere Anytime
1283. Cambodia

2021
894. Anyplace Anywhere Anytime
1320. Cambodia

2022
985. Anyplace Anywhere Anytime
1229. Cambodia

2023
918. Anyplace Anywhere Anytime
1252. Cambodia

2024
950. Anyplace Anywhere Anytime
1275. Cambodia

Band consisting of Melanie Kirschke (vocals), Micha Mark Knierim (vocals, guitar), Michael Backens (keyboads, vocals), Roger Wahlmann (bass), Uli Leopold (guitars, vocals) and Sönke Sommer (drums). This Northern German band can be booked for parties and events. One of the songs they play is Kids in America. Their album ‘Best of Live’ was released digitally in 2015, and features a good selection from their repertoire, including songs like ‘Blurred Lines’, ‘You Sexy Thing’, ‘Get Lucky’, ‘Shout’ and Kids in America.

Tim Lennox was born in 1966 in Birmingham (UK). Starting out as a DJ, he set up the notorious Flesh events at the Haçienda in Manchester in 1991. Like many DJ’s he moved into production when he recorded the song ‘Happiness’ – a cover of a track by Cuba Gooding – with vocals by Sharon D. Clark and producers Aron Friedman and Damon Rochefort. This was released under the name Serious Rope. A second cover, this time of Barbara Mason’s ‘Another Man’, also sustained critical approval. This tale of a Brooklyn housewife dumped by her man for another lover, also male, had the camp, heightened sense of drama intrinsic to the so-called ‘handbag house’ style. This was released as Shy One, after which Lennox switched to the T-Empo name in order to engender a more structured approach to making music.

T-Empo evolved, when Lennox started working with Adam Clough and engineer Simon Bradshaw. After the huge success of ‘Another Man’ several record companies were fighting to sign Lennox, and he eventually opted for FFRR Records, based on their good record with gay/hi-NRG/house acts. However, a third release, ‘Saturday Night Sunday Morning’, the first to use the pseudonym T-Empo, arrived jointly with the exclusive gay record label Out On Vinyl, on which Lennox holds a director’s chair. His remixing skills also rose in popularity, and, again under the name T-Empo, included the Brand New Heavies (‘Dream On Dreamer’), RuPaul (‘House Of Love’), Grace Jones (‘Slave To The Rhythm’), Joe Roberts (‘Lover’), K Klass (‘Rhythm Is A Mystery’) and Propaganda (‘P-Machinery’).

For Kim Wilde, T-Empo remixed Breakin’ Away and Shame.