Friday, February 10, 2012

Limahl's Neverending Story (& New Single)





Heres a wonderful blast from the '80s past....

Limahl originally invaded the American pop charts as the lead singer of the British new wave group Kajagoogoo, who were part of the enormous Second British Invasion of music groups in 1983. Their big hit was "Too Shy." Limahl later had a solo hit with the enchanting theme to the movie, The Neverending Story.  

Turn around
Look at what you see...
In her face
The mirror of your dreams...


Make believe I'm everywhere
Given in the light
Written on the pages 
Is the answer to a never ending story...
Ah...


Reach the stars
Fly a fantasy...
Dream a dream
And what you see will be...



Thanks to my fellow '80s retro blogger Rediscover the '80s I've discovered that Limahl is putting out a great new '80s style single celebrating the year of the Second British music invasion, 1983. The song is also called "1983", and starts by declaring that the singer want 'to go back in time." Back in time to the '80s. 


Rediscover the '80s has a good deal of material on it, including an audio clip of an excellent interview with the artist himself with a full clip of the song. In the interview, Limahl does a great job of expressing how much he loves the era of the '80s, and how exciting it was to be a part of the music scene back then.


Here's Kajagoogoo... back in their heyday of the '80s!



Update:


I have had the pleasure of receiving a post from Kai Lofthus, a professional and guru in the area of media, music and marketing, one of whose recent projects is the new Limahl single "1983" reported above. I checked out his site, which includes the much material on the new Limahl single and its inspiration.


He also left me a link to the great interview with Limahl, originally on XM Sirius radios "the Morning Jolt" with Larry Flick. Here's the link:


http://soundcloud.com/digmusic/limahl-on-sirius-xms-the

Another Update:


WOW!! Limahl himself has mentioned this blog on Twitter. 


http://twitter.com/limahl1


Thank you, Limahl !!  And we're with you 100% on bringing back that great era, the '80s!!



2 comments:

  1. Nice piece; thanks! By the way, here's a link to the Sirius XM interview you mentioned: http://soundcloud.com/digmusic/limahl-on-sirius-xms-the. Also feel free to check out http://www.facebook.com/1983bylimahl, with links to iPhone/iPad app etc.

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  2. Kai Lofthus- Thank you for stopping by, and for the information. We '80s fans will enjoy reading about Limahl's new material. It's always great to go back to 1983!

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