Okay thank you Johnny. Good to have you on on board. Limahl welcome to
the show, welcome to Countdown and welcome to Australia. - Thank you.
So listen, it's been a sort of pretty heavy trip since you've been here.
Very heady, heavy, heady? - Now Rock Awards last week, before that you're in Japan
That's right, 2 weeks in Tokyo. - Right, and you've been tripping backwards and forwards.
Sydney to Melbourne, Melbourne to Sydney, to Adelaide to Melbourne.
You almost have jet lag, before you even sort of got out of the country.
From the city of the city. Listen we'll catch up with you in the next break and
talk about Kajagoogoo and your solo career, but meanwhile I think
these are friends of yours, certainly friends of mine. I'm not sure whether
anyone can really cop this. You've seen Boy George
and you've seen Marilyn, but i don't think you've seen Freddie
Mercury looking exactly quite like this. Here's Queen with...
uh "I Want to Break Free". - I think he's come out of the closet.
Well, there you go. That was the rocking good way. I tell you what, Bonnie looks
good, doesn't she? - Fabulous. Shaking Stevens and I have had a few differences
but i didn't agree with, when he called someone a bread roll and i tend to agree
with him. So there you go. Listen, how did you first start off
with Kajagoogoo? Was it an ad in the papers you all read? - No, I've put the ad in
they saw it. They'd been together for 3 years anyway, and they
hadn't really taken off. There were 4 pieces. - And you were saying you worked
with Mike from from Bucks Fizz in a group? - And we were managed by
Shake, his manager
Frank, big lad. - Right, so then you they entered the
ad and you got together... - 18 months later "Too Shy" was released. - Right, now "Too shy"
was sort of very unusual at the time, I remember in fact, John this is right John?
You're very unusual. - No no, do you remember you came back from England with that
particular 12-inch? - Yes and it didn't have all of the vocals on I was very
confused "The Midnight Mix". - That's right, that's right. Anyhow it turned out
to be a big hit and it put a lot of pressure on you guys i reckon?
4 million sales well. - Yeah, so how much pressure did put it on.
Well, when you're throwing in the deep, like that, first single number 1 in nine
countries, top 5 in America top 5 here, it's going to put pressure on you.
Right, and especially the way the English press carry on, the music press I mean the big
sort of names etc, et cetera. And then you had to come up with the
follow-up, which was in fact: "Ooh to Be Ah". It's a great film.
Yes, I'm much, much happier with this one, then was with
the "Too Shy" one. But the "Too Shy" video clip was done before it was even
released, like three months before. Nobody knew
obviously how big it was going to be. In fact the record company weren't that
keen on it. - That was "Too Shy"? - They thought it was too soft, they
weren't sure whether they should release it. - Right, now: what's then caused the
breakup between you and the rest of the members? - Well as I said: just you know
because, you've thrown in the deep - Musical differences? - No, just throwing in the deep end a lot of
pressure. I didn't get on with the manager, big personality clash with him.
And so you decide to go out solo. - So I feel the same about him like you do
about Shaking. - Oh, no no no no no no no I'm agreeing with him these days you
know he called someone a bread roll and i tend to agree. Right
when it comes to, when it came to sort of going solo i mean that must be a big move for you?
- Yeah it's pretty scary, because i was always in groups,
like 3 or 4 groups. - And also the criticism, that you know they said oh
you're fighting with Kajagoogoo, and all of that.
And what, where'd you go from there you picked the single?
Well the song was already written, I knew that all i had to do was get in
the studio, with two producers and do the record. So we did. - And here we've got it
here today. And here he is Limahl: "Only for Love". ...bread roll
Limahl will be back soon, plus news Cindy Lauper and Lionel Richie.
Great video. A all-american sign from
all-american band: The Cars with a song called "You Might Think", which is from the
new album: Heartbeat City, the fifth album from them.
Coming up next is: the cute, cuddly, courageous caress able
Cindy Lauper video clip for a new song: "Time After Time", which features her
mother and her manager. See, if we can spot them.
That was John Paul Young. What will he do
when he's 60? Ha, we'll wait and see. Recently in England we had the
equivalent of the Countdown awards, which is: the British Rock and Pop Awards and
one of the nomination readers was a guy called: Nik Kershaw.
When asked what he thought of his top 5 hit being in the top 5, he simply
replied: good in it. So here from all the way
from the East End of London is: Nik Kershaw with a video clip for his song,
fab song: "Wouldn't it be Good". - This is John Peters with the counter
national chart. Now back to Limahl and Molly. - Well, thanks very much John. Well
from the lad that was expelled at 16, you're not doing so bad? - Wow did you
know that? - Never mind. You couldn't have been that bad at school?
I was a terror. - Yeah?
So, back to London and you're finally doing this film clip, which was supposed
to be done in Tokyo now and then in Sydney?
I'm going to Los Angeles first, and i'm going to record a song with the
guy who produced Madonna. A guy called "Jellybean". And then i'm going to
London to work with Russell - Well there you go, well listen have a
safe trip. Thanks for coming down and we're going out with the number 1
song. And on incidentally next week on the show we've got, we've got two
compares, we've got the rebel yell really close I'll give you a clue.
Let's think: who could it be? - He had a bit
of trouble trying to work. - What's his name? William?
Billy? oh that's it - Billy Idol - Billy Smith - And if i told this one like
the bop girl, dancer you know strong lad Pat Wills
Don't know... oh the girl who was on the Awards, fab... - So so Pat and Billy together
are doing the show. Should be not quite together, but it'll be an interesting
show next week. It's good night, good night Australia. - We shake both hands
We have, all right. - All right, good night - it's good night
Australia, here is the number 1 record and it is
99 Red Balloons, blue balloons, pink balloons
Nena