Earlier this month, it was announced that the Dutch pop magazine Hitkrant would cease publication. This week, the last regular edition of the magazine has reached shops. The magazine will continue online as a website and six times a year as a magazine of posters – because they are still being used by teenagers to adorn the walls of their rooms.
Oddly, this year is also marks the 40th anniversary of the magazine, because it actually started in January 1977. And this means that Hitkrant actually wrote a lot about Kim during the first half of her music career. From their first article in May 1981 to Kim getting married, she was regularly featured in the magazine: sometimes in small articles using information from international publications, but also in feature length interviews written by the magazine’s own correspondents. Kim actually wore the Hitkrant T-shirt for a photo shoot in 1981 and adorned several covers of the magazine through the years.
This blog brings together all the Hitkrant articles (translated, of course!) that are on this website, and it’s a pretty complete overview of the magazine’s output.
- Kim Wilde loves rock ‘n’ roll (May 7, 1981)
- Kim Wilde: pretty as a picture (May 29, 1981)
- Kim Wilde: “They won’t get me out of the house” (June 11, 1981)
- Why Kim Wilde doesn’t smile (July 2, 1981)
- Kim’s secret (July 9, 1981)
- Kim Wilde: “I’m going to be a star” (July 23, 1981)
- Kim Wilde: “I don’t like politics” (August 27, 1981)
- Kim Wilde: “Without Ricky I’d have been nowhere” (January 13, 1982)
- Kim Wilde in Cambodia (January 28, 1982)
- Kim Wilde wants an evening gown (February 18, 1982)
- Kim in love with Steve? (April 1, 1982)
- Kim Wilde: ridiculously normal (April 8, 1982)
- Kim Wilde is owned by everyone (April 29, 1982)
- Kim Wilde’s first million (June 24, 1982)
- The sensitive top 10 of Kim Wilde (December 22, 1982)
- The secret romance of Kim Wilde (January 16, 1983)
- Kim Wilde is full of doubt (May 7, 1983)
- Kim Wilde’s difficult choice (July 30, 1983)
- Kim Wilde is fit after a resting period: ‘My health comes first’ (August 7, 1983)
- Why Kim Wilde doesn’t like animals (August 20, 1983)
- Kim shows her Wilde side (September 3, 1983)
- Film for Kim? (September 10, 1983)
- Slim with Kim Wilde (October 1, 1983)
- Kim Wilde refutes rumours: no wedding planned (October 29, 1983)
- Review – Dancing in the dark (November 5, 1983)
- “I’m not ready for a steady relationship” (November 17, 1983)
- Meet Kim Wilde! (November 17, 1983)
- Review – Catch as catch can (November 17, 1983)
- Super quartet on a picture (December 3, 1983)
- Kim Wilde (PocketStar booklet) (December 3, 1983)
- A chocolate initial for Kim Wilde (December 17, 1983)
- Kim Wilde’s dormitory on wheels: “Hotels are a superfluous luxury” (February 4, 1984)
- “Try to think of yourself as beautiful” (February 24, 1984)
- Is Kim Wilde afraid of love? (June 2, 1984)
- Kim Wilde in doubt: “I feel struck by fate” (June 9, 1984)
- Kim Wilde didn’t just laugh out loud for nothing (June 23, 1984)
- Friends and enemies of the Culture Club-singer: what do they think of Boy George? (July 28, 1984)
- Review – The second time (October 6, 1984)
- Kim Wilde takes fate into her own hands (November 3, 1984)
- Review – Teases & dares (November 17, 1984)
- Why Kim Wilde wanted to live alone (November 17, 1984)
- Success hasn’t changed Kim Wilde (December 8, 1984)
- Review – The touch (January 19, 1985)
- Kim and Nik: “If only we had met earlier” (February 2, 1985)
- Kim Wilde: “You didn’t think I lived here, did you?” (February 23, 1985)
- Kim Wilde intimate: “I am looking for the ideal husband” (March 9, 1985)
- Kim Wilde in the Rock ‘n’ Roll steps of father Marty (April 6, 1985)
- Sunny holiday memories from Kim Wilde (September 21, 1985)
- What did these golden boys and girl do in 1985? (February 1, 1986)
- Kim is getting ever more professional (July 12, 1986)
- This is the new Kim Wilde: independent, resolute and looking for adventure (July 19, 1986)
- Kim had difficulties (August 9, 1986)
- Kim and Jimi’s fun trip (September 13, 1986)
- Say no to drugs! (September 27, 1986)
- Review – You keep me hangin’ on (October 11, 1986)
- Review – Another step (November 1, 1986)
- Did Kim do a parachute jump? (November 8, 1986)
- Kim Wilde calms down a bit (December 13, 1986)
- The question of 1986: does 1987 give the answer? (December 18, 1986)
- ‘After three years of misery my luck is changing’ (January 1, 1987)
- Kim Wilde (January 24, 1987)
- At home with Kim Wilde: “I’m going to start over, all alone” (January 31, 1987)
- Kim & Junior: Black & Wilde (May 9, 1987)
- Rumour of the week! The awakening love of Kim Wilde and Julian Lennon in Montreux (May 23, 1987)
- In the lense with Kim: Friends, colleagues, memories… (1988)
- Countdown Backstage (April 30, 1988)
- What does Kim Wilde have in common with Michael Jackson? (May 7, 1988)
- Review – Hey mister Heartache (May 28, 1988)
- Annual star battle in Montreux (June 11, 1988)
- The big Kim Wilde interview: “Too much has gone wrong, that won’t happen to me again” (June 18, 1988)
- Review – Close (July 9, 1988)
- The Kim Wilde photo album: “Seven years at the pop top!” (July 9, 1988)
- Kim Wilde: cycling on the heathland (July 31, 1988)
- Tribute to Kim Wilde (August 6, 1988)
- Review – You came (August 6, 1988)
- Kim about her Jackson adventure (August 20, 1988)
- At home with Kim Wilde: “No, you can’t see my bathroom” (August 27, 1988)
- Passport – Kim Wilde (September 3, 1988)
- When did you say those 3 little words for the first time… (October 1, 1988)
- Kim Wilde met Michael Jackson: “Those nonsense stories should be over” (October 15, 1988)
- Younger days (October 22, 1988)
- Kim in short (October 29, 1988)
- Kim Wilde: “Everyone may know it, I’m madly in love” (November 5, 1988)
- “Kim stops”, says dad Wilde. “Nonsense”, Kim replies (November 12, 1988)
- Kim Wilde in Apeldoorn (December 3, 1988)
- Wedding bells for Kim Wilde (December 10, 1988)
- Kim Wilde about father Marty: “He would be all too happy to see me get married” (December 17, 1988)
- Kim Wilde: Demanding (January 7, 1989)
- Quite exciting (January 14, 1989)
- Kim Wilde highlight (January 14, 1989)
- In the lense with fans (February 4, 1989)
- Childhood memories of Kim Wilde: “I brushed my teeth with candy sticks!” (February 18, 1989)
- “I live all over the place. The stage is my home” (March 11, 1989)
- Father Kim Wilde rocks at his 50th (May 20, 1989)
- Is Kim losing her wild hairs? (July 15, 1989)
- Kim Wilde is getting married!!! (October 21, 1989)
- Kim Wilde plays Kylie during her vacuuming: “All my songs are pages from my diary” (May 12, 1990)
- Review – Love moves (June 16, 1990)
- Kim Wilde about 10 years of interviews: “Once I threw a journalist out” (June 16, 1990)
- Review – Can’t get enough (of your love) (july 14, 1990)
- How Kim Wilde became a confident woman: “I am an adult woman and know how I want to look” (July 14, 1990)
- Poll: Artists and their sports (July 21, 1990)
- Kim Wilde becomes daredevil of the year (July 28, 1990)
- Kim Wilde is free again (July 28, 1990)
- Stars about the big unknown (August 18, 1990)
- Walk on the Wilde side (August 18, 1990)
- Heat is good for charity! (September 1, 1990)
- Kim Wilde after the split with Calvin Hayes: “After a week the worst pain is gone, but the scars stay” (September 15, 1990)
- Pins tell a lot about yourself, but what do they tell about the stars? (September 22, 1990)
- Kim Wilde is very openhearted: “My biggest fear is loneliness” (November 24, 1990)
- Long shall Cliffie live (December 15, 1990)
- Kim Wilde feels reborn (January 12, 1991)
- “Wilde” party? (July 13, 1991)
- The big body survey or how-to-get-to-know-this-hottie-in-the-right-way (July 27, 1991)
- Win an encounter with Kim Wilde (April 11, 1992)
- Kim Wilde’s photo album (April 25, 1992)
- Double party for Hitkrant winner (May 9, 1992)
- Pop artists about interviews: “Oh no, not again those difficult questions!” (May 16, 1992)
- Kim Wilde wasn’t arrogant at all (May 16, 1992)
- Kim Wilde: “I was frustrated and very unhappy” (May 23, 1992)
- Kim Wilde: “Honesty is the key to happiness” (June 6, 1992)
- Ex-pop singer seeks job (September 5, 1992)
- Until I was 20 I had little luck in love (September 4, 1993)
- Kim Wilde becomes presenter in Australia (1994)
- The peaks and troughs of Kim Wilde: “There were periods when I thought I was going mad” (January 29, 1994)
- Kim Wilde is like reborn: “I have buried my past!” (1995)
- Kim Wilde in musical (December 1995)
- Kim Wilde is going to get married (July 20, 1996)
- Kim Wilde married (September 21, 1996)