# Looking out a dirty old window
# Down below the cars in the city go rushing by
# I sit here alone and I wonder why
# Friday night and everyone's moving
# I can feel the heat but it's soothing, heading down
# I search for the beat in this dirty town
# Downtown, the young ones are going
# We're the kids in America Whoa
# Everybody lives for the music-go-round
# Bright lights The music gets faster
# Look, boy, don't check on your watch, not another glance
# I'm not leaving now
# Honey, not a chance
# Hot-shot, give me no problems
# Much later, baby, you'll be saying never mind
# You know life is cruel Life is never kind
# Kind hearts don't make a new story
# Kind hearts don't grab any glory
# We're the kids in America Whoa
# Everybody lives for the music-go-round
# La la la la-la la-a
Sing!
# La la la la-la la-a
# Come closer, honey, that's better
# Got to get a brand-new experience Feeling right
# Oh, don't try to stop, baby Hold me tight
# Outside a new day is dawning
# Outside suburbia's sprawling everywhere
# I don't want to go, baby
# New York to east California
# There's a new wave coming I warn ya
# We're the kids in America Whoa
# Everybody lives for the music-go-round
# La la la la-la la-a
Sing!
# La la la la-la la-a
# We're the kids We're the kids
# We're the kids in America
# We're the kids We're the kids... #
So, this is a really interesting experience for me
because I very rarely sit and watch myself.
I'm just not very good at watching myself.
I'm being far too critical.
Today, of course, I'm faced with my past
and I'm making myself look at it,
and now I'm in my 65th year and I'm looking...
It's really quite surreal and wonderful.
Wow! I've been watching Top Of The Pops since I was about eight,
I think. I couldn't believe I was there on the stage
on that programme that I'd adored all my life, really.
I was told afterwards, "Oh, you looked so cool,"
you know, "Moody and cool," but, actually, I was terrified
and overwhelmed.
You know, I was 20 years old
and Madness were standing right in front of me,
and I'd just been buying their records
and they were quite a lairy lot, someone to be pretty scared of
under any circumstances! I'm wearing my dad's dinner jacket
and I'm wearing my mum's jeans, for sure.
I never would have had a cool pair of jeans like that.
You have to remember I was still living at home.
I was cutting my own hair cos it was very, very expensive at the time,
and I hated taking money off my mum and dad. That was who I was
standing on stage. I was a sort of self-made creation,
mostly to do with penny-pinching.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Hi, folks. We're live with Adam and the Ants and a brand-new number one
on Top Of The Pops.
Seven other live acts for you, and right now to start it,
who else but Kim Wilde!
# You say everything's all right I say nothing can go right, yeah
# Oh, what a game you can play
# Sad days add to confusion
# Sad ways end in delusion, yeah
# That's the name of the game
# Well, I know your love is rough
# And the road you take is tough
# But I just can't get enough
# Chequered love
# Touch me, do what you want to
# Say no, then I just need you
# Babe, you're gonna drive me insane
# You are man for all seasons
# You are man with no reasons, yeah
# You're the man with no pain
# Well, I know your love is rough
# And the road you take is tough
# But I just can't get enough
# Chequered love
# Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh, I can't let go
# Cos I need you so tonight
# Chequered love
# You say everything's all right
# I say nothing can go right, yeah
# Oh, what a game you can play
# Sad days add to confusion
# Sad ways end in delusion, yeah
# That's the name of the game
# Well, I know your love is rough
# And the road you take is tough
# But I just can't get enough
# Chequered love
# Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh, I can't let go
# Cos I need you so tonight
# Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
# Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh... #
So by the time Chequered Love comes along,
you can see I'm a much bouncier girl.
I've got lots more confidence.
Same jeans, though.
Yes, so Marty and Ricky
were charged with writing me hit after hit.
There was a lot of pressure to that, obviously.
My star rose very, very quickly.
All of a sudden, I was on a lot of covers of magazines
and there was a lot of interest in me,
not just in the UK but all over the world.
So I was spending a lot of time in airports
and dressing rooms and travelling,
and they were charged with coming up with the hits,
and they did an amazing job. Yeah, they were inspired.
Of course, we all were really inspired.
This was great, you know?
I was a 20-year-old being a pop star.
My father had always loved songwriting,
and Rick, who was a developing writer,
and their combined talent was just an astonishing gift for me.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# Well, he was Thailand based She was an airforce wife
# He used to fly weekends It was the easy life
# But then it turned around and he began to change
# She didn't wonder then She didn't think it strange
# But then he got a call He had to leave that night
# He couldn't say too much But it would be all right
# He didn't need to pack They'd meet the next night
# He had a job to do Flying to Cambodia
# Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
# And as the nights passed by She tried to trace the past
# The way he used to look The way he used to laugh
# I guess she'll never know what got inside his soul
# She couldn't make it out Just couldn't take it all
# He had the saddest eyes the girl had ever seen
# He used to cry some nights as though he lived a dream
# And as she held him close he used to search her face
# Although she knew the truth
# Lost inside Cambodia
# Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
# But then a call came through They said he'd soon be home
# She had to pack a case and they would make a rendezvous
# But now a year has passed and not a single word
# And all the love she knew has disappeared out in the haze
# Cambodia
# And now the years have passed with not a single word
# But there is only one thing left I know for sure
# She won't see his face again... #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
# Ten little Indians standing in a row
# All dressed up but nowhere to go
# Looking for a target Looking for a man
# Just get me outta here
# It's not the place my mind's been thinking of
# Just push me out again
# It's no use hanging round or hanging on
# Ooh, seven little Indians standing in a row
# The compere walks on the stage and he says, sing it, girls
# OK
# Doo-bee doo-bee doop doop bop bop
# But the band's no good and the song don't cut it
# Just get me outta here
# It's not the place my mind's been thinking of
# Just push me out again
# It's no use hanging round or hanging on
# Doo-bee doo-bee doop doop bop bop Hanging on
# Doo-bee doo-bee doop doop bop bop
# Come on, let's go tonight
# We got a brand-new way to celebrate it
# Oh-oh-oh-oh
# Oh, I got this rage to love
# Baby, it's so right, and if you feel it, great
# Dedicate it Oh, I got this rage to love
# Three little Indians crying in their make-up
# Nobody stops and nobody cares
# Just get me outta here
# It's not the place my mind's been thinking of
# Just push me out again
# It's no use hanging round or hanging on
# Doo-bee doo-bee doop doop bop bop Hanging on
# Doo-bee doo-bee doop doop bop bop
# Come on, let's go tonight
# We got a brand-new way to celebrate it
# Oh-oh-oh-oh
# I got this rage to love
# Baby, it's so right and if you feel it, great
# Dedicate it
# Oh, I got this rage to love
# Doo-bee doo-bee doop doop bop bop
# Come on, let's go tonight
# We got a brand-new way to celebrate it
# Oh, I got this rage to love
# Baby, it's so right and if you feel it, great
# Dedicate it
# Oh, I got this rage to
# Oh, it's just this rage to
# Oh, I got this rage to love
# Doo-bee doo-bee doop doop bop bop
# I got, I got, I got, I got
# Doo-bee doo-bee doop doop bop bop
# I got this rage to love... #
I went through my dad's wardrobe a few times
for a few rock and roll jackets,
which I will always keep and love.
My roots have always been rock and roll.
Now, when I'm playing live all the time, it's very rocky
and that's the foundation of our sound and the way we play live.
I love touring and I love performing live.
Most of all, what I really love doing is singing.
I really love singing.
When I got involved in the music industry initially,
I wanted to be a session singer.
That didn't work out because...
..because I recorded a song called Kids In America,
which dictated the rest of my life.
I would have been happy without fame, for sure.
Fame wasn't the thing I was after.
What I was after is...
..actually what I've got more now,
which is... I do more singing now
than I did probably back in the '80s.
Being on stage is such a privilege.
You see all these people out there looking at you,
and you go, "Oh! Wow! Wow. They are here to see me.
"I'd better pull something out the bag."
I can't just walk on with a cup of tea and say,
"Hi, how are you doing?"
I feel like I need to really be the... I don't know.
My alter ego, in a way.
But I never leave Kim completely offside of stage.
That wouldn't... I think people love that I'm...
They get to see who I really am too.
# I knew there was danger
# I couldn't resist
# The touch of a stranger The thrill of his kiss
# Cos this time I thought it was love
# I thought it was heaven
# Having the time of my life I know it's not true
# Oh, never trust a stranger with your heart
# Oh, no
# Never trust a stranger with your heart
# My world is in pieces You've stolen my pride
# And I'm left defeated And crushed by your lies
# I thought it was love
# I thought it was heaven
# Having the time of my life
# I know it's not true
# Oh, never trust a stranger with your heart
# Oh, no
# Never trust a stranger with your heart
# Like a tiger you hunted You tracked me down
# Savaged my soul You took over control
# Then when you'd used all the love you found
# You left without trace Not a note, not a single goodbye
# I thought it was love I thought it was heaven
# Having the time of my life
# I know it's not true, whoo!
# Oh, never trust a stranger with your heart
# Oh, no
# Never trust a stranger with your heart
# Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh-oh-oh... #
Thank you!
Kim, would you like to sing a song with us? Good! Good!
We're going to sing a traditional folk song
and it's in two parts. OK.
Let's sing.
# Old woman, old woman... #
That's you, Kim. Me? Yeah.
# Will you come a-shearing? #
And then you reply...
# Speak a little louder, sir
# I'm rather hard of hearing... #
LAUGHTER
OK, that's the story. Let's sing. Join in and swing your pants.
Do what? Swing your pants.
Swing your pants, Kim.
# Old woman, old woman
# Will you come a-shearing?
# No, thank you
# Speak a little louder
# I'm rather hard of hearing. #
That's good. That's good. Let's try that once more, shall we?
# Old woman, old woman
# Will you come a-shearing?
BOTH: # Speak a little louder, sir
# I'm rather hard of hearing. #
Good. Next verse.
LOUDLY: # Old woman, old woman
# Will you come a-cleaning? #
Oh! Oh, dear.
I think she heard that time! So do I.
# Ah, ah, ah
# I tell ya
# It's hell, yeah
# When love says goodbye it's a four-letter word
# Because your heart knows when love goes
# The feeling is bad It's the pits of the world
# It's sad but true
# When nothing you can do
# Can bring it back
# Standing in the rain she starts to cry
# Is it all a game?
# She wonders why
# Why it had to start
# Why should it end and take her apart?
# Because she shows it She knows it
# But what can she do? It's a four-letter word
# Because it shakes you It breaks you
# And when it's the end it's the worst thing you heard
# It's over now
# And nothing you can do can bring it back
# Calling out his name she starts to cry
# Guys are all the same She wants to die
# Hide away the tears
# No-one will see and no-one must hear
# But, oh
# How can the love that she has be profane?
# And how can something that's so beautiful
# Just Jekyll and Hyde around?
# It's too sad
# Ah, ah, ah
# Ooh-ooh
# I tell ya
# It's hell, yeah
# When love says goodbye it's a four-letter word
# Because your heart knows when love goes
# The feeling is bad It's the worst in the world
# It's sad but true
# When nothing you can do can get it back
# Standing in the rain she starts to cry
# Shouting out his name
# Four-letter word
# I tell ya
# It's hell, yeah
# Four-letter word
# Because your heart knows... #
By the time You Keep Me Hangin' On was recorded,
we had invested in our own recording studio in Knebworth
in Hertfordshire.
My brother was working in there 24/7,
together with my father Marty,
coming up with great songs for me.
And Ricky was in there one afternoon, coming up with a song -
the chords sounded familiar to him.
He realised it was You Keep Me Hangin' On, and it was at that point
he thought, "Well, maybe we should do a cover version."
We hadn't really done one before.
So I went in a studio, I didn't listen to the Diana Ross version
or any other version. I just went in and...
I think that's what really worked about it.
There was no homage to what had happened before.
It was like reinventing the wheel a bit with that song.
I was a huge Diana Ross fan -
still am, obviously.
She's my all-time favourite female vocalist, actually.
So that was another reason I just made a point of not listening
to her version, or any version, and went in fresh,
and that really shows. People love it. It went to number one in America
and was a huge hit all over the world,
so I think we did that song proud.
Oh, yeah! We had a telegram from Lamont Dozier, who wrote the song,
which I keep on my desk at home.
He said, "Thanks for making me look so good
"and making that hit..."
I think making it a hit for the third time, or something.
But, yeah, it's one of my most treasure possessions -
Lamont Dozier sent me a Telemessage once upon a time.
Not many people can say that.
# You keep me hangin' on
# Set me free, why don't you, babe?
# Get out of my life Why don't you, babe?
# Cos you don't really love me
# You just keep me hangin' on
# Set me free, why don't you, babe?
# Get out of my life Why don't you, babe?
# Cos you don't really need me
# But you keep me hangin' on
# Why do you keep a-coming around playing with my heart?
# Why don't you get out of my life and let me make a brand-new start?
# Let me get over you the way you've gotten over me, yeah
# Set me free, why don't you, babe?
# Get out of my life Why don't you, babe?
# Cos you don't really love me
# You just keep me hangin' on
# No, you don't really need me
# You just keep me hangin' on
# You say although we broke up you still wanna be just friends
# But how can we still be friends
# When seeing you only breaks my heart again?
# Whoa-oh-oh
# Whoa-oh-oh-oh
# Yeah, yeah
# Get out, get out of my life
# And let me sleep at night
# Cos you don't really love me
# You just keep me hangin' on... #
APPLAUSE
# View from a bridge
# Can't take any more
# View from a bridge
# Can't take any more
# I guess it all began about a year ago
# Like a cheap love magazine
# You know the kind you read about and have to laugh
# At the pages in between
# Now I can't believe the fool inside is me
# Cos I just can't face the world I've grown to see
# View from a bridge
# Can't take any more
# View from a bridge
# Can't take any more
# I saw you kissing her
# I saw you making her
# In the soft sheets in between
# But when you turned around I saw your eyes were fire
# And you crashed out all my dreams
# And like a fool I just stood there and let it go
# I should have fought right back and let my feelings show
# View from a bridge
# Can't take any more
# View from a bridge
# Can't take any more
# You sure as hell knew how to make a fool out of me
# Well, you cut me down for the things you want
# And now it's killing me
# Oh...
# But then a voice said jump and I just let go
# And I'm floating out in space
# But then I feel your arms and I turn around
# To a ghost without a face
# And I just don't know what's fact or fantasy
# Cos when I look below the bridge
# I see it's me
# View from a bridge
# Can't take any more
# View from a bridge
# Can't take any more
# View from a bridge
# Can't take any more
# View from a bridge
# Can't take any more... #
Oh, my goodness me. That was such a long time.
SHE LAUGHS
Look at me, slinking off trying to look so cool
and there I go. There I go. Yeah, yeah.
It's a killer. I love that moment.
Oh, my goodness me.
SHE LAUGHS
Right now, we have some great music coming up for you.
This is Kim Wilde and Junior together in the store. Fantastic!
Yay!
# Never, ever
# Felt this way before
# You are the one that I've been craving for
BOTH: # Another step nearer your heart
# Another step closer to knowing you
# Another step nearer your heart I'm on my way
# I never thought it could happen
# Being close to someone like you
# But you know this isn't just a minute affair
# If we make time and take a lot of care
# Cos I love everything about it Everything, yeah
# There's such a good feel about it
# And I know where I'm gonna be
# If you take a step closer to me, oh
# Another step nearer your heart
# Another step closer to knowing you
# Another step nearer your heart
# I'm on my way
# I couldn't even describe it Ooh-ooh
# Though I tried, I couldn't find the words
# When you stumble through life and love is one step away
# Do you carry on or do you stay?
# We've got to promise faithfully Faithfully
# To hang on to each other and never leave
# That's the way love's gonna be
# If you take a step closer to me Come on now
# Another step nearer your heart
# Another step closer to knowing you
# Another step nearer your heart
# I'm on my way
# The only way to deal with affairs of the heart
# You've got to jump right in
# Doesn't matter who starts, oh
# Take a step nearer Come over here
# Together, we can make it tonight Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh
# Ooh, we can make it tonight
# Another step
# Yeah, yeah
# Another step nearer your heart Oh-oh
# Another step closer to knowing you Just another step
# Another step nearer your heart
# I'm on my way
# Come on now, come on now
# Another step nearer your heart
# Just another step closer to holding you
# Another step nearer your heart
# I'm on my way I'm on my way
# I'm on my way... #
In 1988, when I got asked to do the Michael Jackson tour...
Up until that point I had done some touring,
but not a lot of touring. I wasn't a touring artist.
I'd made a lot of great videos and done a lot of travelling,
interviews, TV appearances. I'd done a lot of that.
I hadn't done so much touring.
When I got offered 32 dates with Michael Jackson
across Europe and the UK,
I knew I had to really raise my personal bar.
So it was really fantastic for me, as an artist,
as a singer, as a performer,
to be given that opportunity, cos I had to really
pull my socks up, as it were.
I was given the same opportunity a few years later with David Bowie
on the Sound And Vision tour
and again, you know, I had to have a good chat with myself
and, you know, you were just about to go on stage
before the most amazing artist on the planet.
I mean, it's a hard one.
You know? You just have to have a proper chat with yourself
and really focus. So both those artists gave that to me.
They gave me focus.
# Walking round the room singing Stormy Weather
# At Fifty Seven Mount Pleasant Street
# Well, it's the same room but everything's different
# You can fight the sleep but not the dream
# Things ain't cookin' in my kitchen
# Strange affliction washed over me
# Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire
# Couldn't conquer the blue sky
# Everywhere you go always take the weather with you
# Everywhere you go always take the weather
# Everywhere you go always take the weather with you
# Everywhere you go always take the weather
# The weather with you
# Well, there's a small boat made of china
# It's going nowhere on the mantlepiece
# Well, do I lie like a loungeroom lizard
# Or do I sing like a bird released?
# Everywhere you go always take the weather with you
# Everywhere you go always take the weather
# Everywhere you go always take the weather with you
# Everywhere you go always take the weather
# The weather with you
# Everywhere you go always take the weather with you
# Everywhere you go always take the weather
# Everywhere you go always take the weather with you
# Everywhere you go always take the weather
# Take the weather The weather with you
# Everywhere you go always take the weather with you
# Everywhere you go you always take the weather
# Everywhere you go always take the weather with you
# Everywhere you go always take the weather
# Take the weather
# The weather with you... #
One, two, three!
# Everywhere you go always take the weather with you
# Everywhere you go always take the weather
# Everywhere you go always take the weather with you
# Everywhere you go always take the weather
# Everywhere you go always take the weather with you
# Everywhere you go always take the weather
# Everywhere you go always take the weather with you
# Everywhere you go always take the weather
# Take the weather
# The weather with you... #
Well, I took a break in about '96.
I was about 36 at the time.
I'd got a bit bored with being Kim Wilde.
I'd been Kim Wilde since I was 20.
I'd done a lot of travelling, a lot of interviews.
Far too many, probably.
Far too much yakking.
I was really kind of bored of myself and, um...
And also, my career wasn't doing that great either, you know,
so it was a bit of a no-brainer.
It was just like, "Let's leave the party before everybody else leaves.
"I think that would be the coolest thing to do."
So I did. And I just thought, "Well, something else will happen."
And as luck would have - well, fate would have -
this script for Tommy came with a message from Pete Townshend.
I thought, "Wow! That's my future right there on the kitchen table.
"I know what I'm going to be doing for the next few years of my life."
So, yeah, I have learned, of course, that, you know,
that's the wonderful thing about life. You close one door
and another one opens, and you'd just better be ready for it.
# I'd like to declare
# This devotion and care
# Is the life to live
# That nothing has changed
# And the time isn't passing us by
# But I have to say here that for us
# There's a clear-cut alternative
# When we look at each other
# We believe our own eyes
BOTH: # I believe my own eyes
# Now I've come to the end
# All my patience is gone
# When I'm doubtful I tend
# To believe my own eyes
# This has gone far enough
# After all we've been through
# We can't be brave
# We've done all we can humanly do
# It's a time to be tough
# A time to be wise
# We must stop chasing false dreams and recover our lives
# I believe my own eyes
# Now I've come to the end
# All my patience is gone
# When I'm doubtful I tend
# To believe...
# I'd like to believe
# But I don't think that we've seen the best of us
# And the way to believe
# Is to see where the real future lies
# I hope that the pain in your gaze
# Can again be a test of us
# And when I look in the mirror
# I believe my own eyes
# Let's believe our own eyes
# No, we've come to the end
# All our patience is gone
# Let's admit we intend
# To believe our own eyes
# To believe our own eyes. #
APPLAUSE
# Well, it sounded like a whisper
# But soon became a cry
# And the moment that I touch you
# I know the reason why
# We got love
# No union is stronger than a woman with a man
# I'm gonna give love in the natural way
# With everything I can
# Never mind if things go wrong
# You and I will still be strong
# And how I love you now
# Oh, baby, we're here tonight
# We can make it last forever
# We can make it last for life
# Oh, baby, no matter what
# I'm gonna give love in the natural way
# With everything I got
# All times it can be gentle
# And at times it can be cruel
# It can treat you like a stranger
# It can treat you like a fool
# But tonight I wanna hold you
# Cos tonight you're gonna see
# I'm gonna give you love in the natural way
# And keep you here with me
# Lovin' like you've never known
# Now at last we're on our own
# And I still love you now
# Oh, baby, we're here tonight
# We can make it last forever
# We can make it last for life
# Oh, babe, it's me and you
# And it's a natural reaction
# When you feel the way we do
# What is left that's still unknown
# Let's discover on our own
# Oh-oh-h-h-h-h-h
# Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh
# Cos when love's the culmination
# Of everything you feel
# Well, it's the only thing that's precious
# It's the only thing that's real
# Oh, baby, we're here tonight
# We can make it last forever
# We can make it last for life
# Oh, baby, no matter what
# I'm gonna give love in the natural way
# With everything I got
# I'm gonna give love in the natural way
# With everything I got
# I'm gonna give you love in the natural way
# With everything I got
# Oh, oh-h-h-h
# I'm gonna give you love
in the natural way
# I'm gonna give you love
# I'm gonna give love in the natural way. #
APPLAUSE
In 1987, I had the good fortune to be asked
to be involved with Comic Relief.
I have to admit that the only reason I got the gig
was because of my name being Kim,
because the whole thing was a skit on the fact
that it was called Mel & Kim,
and I got to work with the mighty Mel Smith.
If my friends could see me now! How do I look? Ridiculous.
HE CHORTLES
You tease!
People ask me, "What was he like?"
I say, "He is a man who had the energy of 20 20-year-olds."
He was exhausting! I mean, just full of energy.
And you know, after the video shoot, he was going off clubbing.
I wanted to go home and have a cup of tea, and he was like,
"Are you coming out, Kim?" "I don't think so."
Oh, yeah, he was a sweetheart.
Really sweet, lovely funny man.
SAXOPHONE PLAYS
I do love a nice sax break.
Yeah, me, too, Kim, but let's wait till the record's over!
Well, honestly, after Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
became such a big hit for Comic Relief with me and Mel,
it become sort of associated with me completely.
So, at Christmas, if we were doing any gigs, we always put it in.
Then, what happened, one Christmas,
my brother and I went to a party.
Ricky and I had a guitar with us.
We had gone to the party by train
and we had every intention
of getting a train home, which is what we did,
but once we got on the train,
we decided to keep the party going,
and we started playing Christmas songs,
and Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree
and all kinds of stuff. And before I knew it,
it had gone viral,
and millions of people had seen me
very drunk on a train, with my brother,
who was also very drunk.
# Have a happy holiday
# Everyone dancing merrily
# In the new... #
Then I became known as the girl that sang
Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree AND was drunk on a train,
so I thought, "Why don't we put those things together
"and make a new video,
"reclaim the drunken moment,
"have fun with that, with Nik Kershaw?" who's my big, big buddy.
So, lots of really positive things happened from it,
and it did make a lot of people laugh a lot
and people still say to me,
"Oh, I remember you and Rick drunk on a train!"
And it seemed to make...
..you know, bring some Christmas joy to a lot of people.
Come on, Mel!
How about pulling a cracker?
By the look of you, darling, I think I already have. Get it?
# Rockin' around the Christmas tree
# At the Christmas party hop
# Mistletoe hung where you can see
# Every couple try to stop
# Rockin' around the Christmas tree
# Let the Christmas spirit ring
# Later, we'll have some pumpkin pie
# And we'll do some carolling... # Pumpkin pie, anyone?
BOTH: # You will get a sentimental feeling, when you hear...
DOORBELL RINGS # Voices singing, let's be jolly
# Deck the halls with boughs of holly
# Rockin' around the Christmas tree
# Have a happy holiday... # This is so corny
# Everyone's dancin' merrily
# In the new old-fashioned way... #
# You will get a sentimental feeling when you hear
# Voices singing, let's be jolly
# Deck the halls with boughs of holly
# Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la, la, la
# Rockin' around the Christmas tree
# Have a happy holiday
# Everyone's dancin' merrily
# In the new old-fashioned way
# Rockin' around the Christmas tree
# Have a happy holiday
# Everyone's dancing merrily
# In the new old-fashioned way! #
Happy Crimbo, Kimbo!
PORTUGUESE ACCENT:
Hi! My name is Tony Ferrino,
and welcome to my pheno-menon.
Oh, God, I think I'm going to start crying -
it's too funny.
And now, it's time for my special guest.
You know, I don't think she would object
if I was to say she was a WILD woman. She is.
Please welcome the beautiful BUT talented Kim Wilde!
I was such a huge fan when I got asked to do this.
Now, Kim, I have a little gift for you.
It is a hand-carved, Portuguese jewellery box...
And you see, you put the jewels in here...
..like this.
And you put the top back on and you just...give it a good screw.
I'm sure it will give me a lot of pleasure.
It will remind you of me. Hollow?
Kim Wilde.
Oh, my God! This is so fun to watch this!
Kim, it's lovely to talk to you,
but the audience, they don't want to hear you speak.
We want to hear you sing. Please come and join me. Put that down.
You know, you have a few memories in your life,
of your career, and this is in the top five for me.
The top five, for sure.
"You cooking the kids fishfingers" was just a great line.
I knew, when I read the lyrics to the song,
when I saw the fishfinger line, I knew I had to do it.
And, yeah, wow, I was such a big fan of his at the time.
What a funny...
Anyway...
We all know how funny this man is,
and then, oh, my God, that dress! It's outrageous!
KIM LAUGHS
I absolutely loved doing it.
And of course, I'd had a bit of acting experience at this point,
cos I'd been in the West End for a year, doing seven shows a week,
and so I kind of had tapped into my inner actor.
And then every time I looked at him, it was very hard
to keep a straight face, it really was,
but I just gave it 100% and it's a...
I think it's a masterpiece. It really is.
It might be the best thing I ever did in my whole career.
SHE LAUGHS
# It's a short-term affair
# You're my children's au pair
# But I just couldn't bear
# To keep my hands off you
# I was barely 18
# What you did was obscene
# But to me it felt clean
# What else was I to do-o-o?
# The memory still lingers
# You cooking the kids fishfingers
# Ironing...
# Each morning you'd come down In your paisley dressing gown
# Then, you would sing
And this yearning started for a short-term affair
# No intention to stray
# I was caught in your snare
# But my wife was away You were so debonair
# So I thought, what the hey?
# I know I can't
# Resist
# It was a short-term affair You're the man, you're the boss
# When I found you right there Like the father I lost
# Cleaning our silverware So to hell with the cost
# Right there, at once...
# We kissed
# You took me to the kitchen
# Your hands kind of started twitching
# I felt so shy
# Nothing could stop what followed
# Lucky for me you swallowed...
# Every lie
# God alone knows why we had this short-term affair
# It was a short-term affair
# Like a ripe Camembert
# There's a smell in the air
# I know...that it's over now
# Try...to be strong somehow
# I'll start...a brand-new life
# Please...please don't tell my wife
# But I won't...stop loving you
# Please...please don't tell my wife!
# Au revoir...ciao, auf Wiedersehen
# We must...never meet again
# Short-term affair
# Oo-oo-ooh
# Short-term affair
# Baby, baby, baby
# Short-term affair
# Oo-oo-ooh, ya-a-a
# Short-term affair! #
APPLAUSE
You can always bank on the Gershwin brothers to come up with the goods,
in fact, Fred and Ginger - I call them Fred and Ginger -
they liked this next song so much, they used it in two of their movies.
Well, here tonight to sing it for us is Miss Kim Wilde!
KIM LAUGHS OVER CLIP
Right, so, wow. I've got to say...
So, I saw that dress in, I don't know,
I think it was Vogue or somewhere,
or some fantastic magazine.
I saw it and I thought, "Wouldn't it be great?!"
So, we got in touch with them.
They said, "We've only got this model size,"
I thought, "Well, I'll never get into that,"
but somehow I managed to!
Um, yeah, and...
Yeah... Do you know, it's one of my favourite...
Looking through these,
it's one of my favourite performances.
I'd always loved those songs from that generation,
the Julie London generation,
the Frank Sinatra generation...
I love those songs. I know all of them,
mostly because they were in my father's record collection.
And I got to sing They Won't Take That Away From Me.
Wow, with an orchestra, too! I couldn't believe it!
And it still blows my mind when I'm in that experience.
I have worked with orchestras subsequently,
on tour and here in the UK,
the Piano Room for Radio 2...
So, yeah, that was one of the first times I'd worked
with a full orchestra who were there just for me, and I loved it!
APPLAUSE
# Our romance won't end on a sorrowful note
# Though by tomorrow you're gone
# The song is ended, but as the songwriter wrote
# The melody lingers on
# Now they may take you from me
# I'll miss your fond caress
# But though they take you from me
# I'll still possess
# The way you wear your hat
# The way you sip your tea
# The memory of all that
# No, no, they can't take that away from me
# The way your smile just beams
# The way you sing off-key
# The way you haunt my dreams
# No, no, they can't take that away from me
# We may never, ever meet again
# On that bumpy road to love
# Still I'll always, always keep the memory of
# The way you hold your knife
# The way we danced till three
# The way you changed my life
# No, no, they can't take that away from me
# No, they can't take that away from me... #
SHE HUMS MELODY
# No, no, they can't take that away from me... #
SHE HUMS MELODY
# No, no, they can't take that away from me
# We may never, ever meet again
# On that bumpy road to love
# Still I'll always, always keep the memory of
# The way you hold your knife
# The way we danced till three
# The way you changed my life
# No, no, they can't take that away from me
# No, they can't take that away from me
# They can't take that away
# From me
# Ohh, ooooh... #
APPLAUSE
So, at the end of the show,
after I had enjoyed wearing that beautiful dress
for They Won't Take That Away From Me,
they actually did take it away from me,
because I had to send it back to the magazine!
So, I actually only got to borrow that dress. I never got to keep it.
So, that's quite sweet, really.
They sent it to me, but the caveat was, "You send it back."
So, there you go.
Mind you, I wouldn't fit in it now anyway.
# It's over, don't forget it
# It will heal you, if you let it
# Love will strip you
# Leave you naked
# Love is sexy
# Love is sacred
# I put my faith in me and you
# Somehow I know that we'll pull through
# Oh, I feel my life passing by
# Sometimes it makes me want to cry
# Thank God I've got you by my side
# Every night I hope and pray
# Nothing takes your love away
# I lie awake just to watch you breathe
# Love is holy when you lay with me
# Love is holy, baby, stay
# With me, yeah
# I don't understand the world today
# Is everything made just to throw away?
# But you and I You and I
# Get closer as time goes by Till I die
# I feel my love intensify
# Baby, you're a spiritual high
# Every night I hope and pray
# Nothing takes your love away
# I lie awake just to watch you breathe
# Love is holy when you lay with me
# Love is holy, baby, stay
# With me
# Love is holy, don't forget it
# It will heal you if you let it
# Love will strip you, leave you naked
# Love is sexy, love is sacred
# Every night I hope and pray
# Nothing takes our love away
# I lie awake just to watch you breathe
# Love is holy when you lay with me
# Love is holy, baby, stay
# With me Every night I hope and pray
# Nothing takes our love away.. #
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
APPLAUSE
I mean, the thing about being famous and living a public life
is there are going to be sort of, you know, ups and downs with this,
you know. Sometimes you're going to be more who you think...
You're going to feel more comfortable with who you are
than at other times.
I think I've said enough!
SHE LAUGHS
# Don't wanna know about vacations in this cheap motel
# Don't wanna know about your sea-green curtains
# Cos all I want and all I need is just some time with you
# Don't complicate it, just do it once again
# Just go for it
# Just go for the second time
# Just go for it
# Just go
# Don't wanna hear about the time and how it's getting late
# How can you stop when I could go for hours?
# You need some magic, come on, let me lean on you
# Don't look around, you're not going anywhere
# Just go for it
# Just go for the second time
# Just go for it
# Just go
# Just go for it
# And all I need
# Cos all I want and all I need
# I'm never letting go Baby, don't expect me to
# How can you stop when my whole world's exploding?
# Look in the mirrors and see the heat of something new
# Why don't we do it, just do it once again?
# Just go for it
# Just go for the second time
# Just go for it
# Go
# Just go for it
# Don't be so nervous, don't get so hot
# Don't start to fumble it up
# Cos all I want and all I need
# There's such an urgency in everything I need from you
# Stop giving up You know you can't refuse me
# I've every reason to believe there's still a man in you
# You've done it once, so come on, go again
# Just go for it
# Just go for the second time
# Just go for it
# Just go... #
APPLAUSE
# If I can't have you I don't want nobody, baby
# If I can't have you Oh-oh-oh, hey, hey
# If I can't have you I don't want nobody, baby
# If I can't have you Oh-oh-oh
# Don't know why
# I'm surviving every lonely day
# When there's got to be
# No chance for me
# My life would end
# And it doesn't matter how I cry
# My tears of love are a waste of time
# If I turn away
# Am I strong enough to see it through?
# Go crazy is what I will do
# If I can't have you I don't want nobody, baby
# If I can't have you Oh-oh-oh, oh!
# If I can't have you I don't want nobody, baby
# If I can't have you Oh-oh-oh
# Can't let go
# And it doesn't matter how I try
# I gave it all too easily
# To you, my love
# To dreams that never will come true
# Am I strong enough to see it through?
# Go crazy is what I will do
# If I can't have you I don't want nobody, baby
# I can't have you Oh-oh-oh, oh!
# If I can't have you I don't want nobody, baby
# If I can't have you Oh-oh-oh
# Yeah, yeah, if I can't have you I don't want nobody, baby
# If I can't have you Oh-oh-oh, oh!
# If I can't have you I don't want nobody, baby
# If I can't have you Oh-oh-oh, yeah, yeah
# Nobody
# If I can't have you
# Nobody
# Hey, hey, if I can't have you I don't want nobody, baby... #
So, yeah, my Closer album came out
at the beginning of 2025, in January,
and we used the album Close from 1988,
one of my most successful albums, as a sort of blueprint.
And some of the songs are directly connected to the new songs -
there's a sort of connection between them lyrically,
sound-wise, certainly from a production point of view.
So we went a bit retro on the new album, with synth sounds and stuff.
So it did sound very '80s, very early '80s, in parts.
Midnight Train was one of the first songs that got written for it,
which was one that Rick just conjured up himself,
as he is very prone to do.
I loved the sound of it. I loved it.
It was a bit bonkers, and I loved that it was about being on a train.
# Stirring up memory like a photograph
# Looking for an image, and I have to laugh
# Cos you belong here, you're complete
# Staring at the mirror like a total stranger
# Everyone around me are in mortal danger
# They'll never know, they won't see
# There's only me
# And I'm moving on
# Grabbing the chance of love in vain
# Only me on this midnight train
# The guilt's still sticking like Elastoplast
# Smoke without fire is a hydro blast
# I don't belong here, there's no conceit
# There's only me
# And I'm moving on
# Fighting the world with broken hands
# Ride with me on this midnight train
# The midnight train
# The midnight train!
# Ride with me, yo!
# The midnight train
# Curse my sorrow
# I don't know where to begin
# The midnight train
# Curse my sorrow
# I don't know where to begin
# To redeem myself
# Curse my sorrow
# Show me just how to begin
# There's only me
# And I'm moving on
# Grabbing the chance of love in vain
# Only me
# On this midnight train. #
APPLAUSE
# Cascading down, there's a sound vaporising into vision
# It's a sound in my head that I feel and it shuts me in a prison
# Say it won't last
# Say it will pass
# Always the sound in my brain
# Can you hear it? Can you hear it?
# Water on glass running down again
# Water on glass, that sound
# Water on glass, running round again
# Help me, the sound of running water's coming down
# Dancing away like the lights on a moving coloured river
# Sounds in my head seem to run
# And again I feel a shiver
# Say it won't last
# Pray it will pass
# Always the sound in my brain
# Can you hear it? Can you hear it?
# Water on glass running down again
# Water on glass, that sound
# Water on glass running round again
# Help me, the sound of running water's coming down
# Cascading down, there's a sound vaporising into vision
# It's a sound in my head that I feel and it shuts me in a prison
# Say it won't last
# Say it will pass
# Always the sound in my brain
# Can you hear it? Can you hear it?
# Water on glass running down again
# Water on glass, that sound
# Water on glass running round again
# Help me, the sound of running water's coming down
# Water on glass running down again
# That sound
# Running round again. #
I suppose the thing I'm most proud of is that...
..I still love singing more than anything.
SHE LAUGHS
SHE EXHALES
Just...
SHE LAUGHS
Yeah, I think, erm, it's a hard question to answer.
I mean, you know, if you ask me what am I most proud of,
I'm really tempted to say
working with Steve Coogan and being an au pair.
I would be really tempted to say that!
If I look at it more broadly, I mean,
I still have a passion for singing, and I love singing.
So I think I'm probably proud of that.
I'm proud of the fact that I started off as a singer.
I became famous sort of by default.
It wasn't something I particularly wanted,
or particularly enjoy, either, I'll be honest with you.
But I do love singing,
and I think the thing I'm most proud of is that
I still feel that same passion.
I feel like I never compromised on that.
And I got better! I'm actually much better now than I used to be.
You know what I mean? Come and see me live - you'll find out.
# Someone I know is staring at me
# And when I look into her eyes
# I see a girl that I used to be
# I hardly recognise
# Cos in the space of a year
# I've watched the old me disappear
# All of the things I once held precious
# Just don't mean anything any more
# Cos suddenly you came and changed the way I feel
# No-one could love you more
# Because you came and turned my life around
# No-one could take your place
# I've never felt good with permanent things
# And now I don't want anything to change
# You can't imagine the joy you bring
# My life won't be the same
# Well, I'll be there when you call
# I'll pick you up if you should fall
# Cos I have never felt such inspiration
# Nobody else ever gave me more
# Because you came and changed the way I feel
# No-one could love you more
# Because you came and turned my life around
# No-one could take your place
# You came
# Preston, give me a big wave! #
All the way back, come on!
# You came and turned my life around
# No-one could take your place
# I watch you sleep in the still of the night
# You look so pretty when you dream
# So many people just go through life
# Holding back, they don't say what they mean
# But it's easy for me
# Since you came
# No-one could love you more
# Because you came and turned my life around
# No-one could take your place
# You came
# And turned my life around
# You came and turned my life around
# No-one could take your place You came... #
Put your hands in the air, Preston, come on. Let's see it.
# You came and changed the way I feel
# No-one could love you more
# Because you came and turned my life around
# No-one could take your place
# You came and changed the way I feel
# No-one could love you more
# Because you came and turned my life around... #