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Kajagoogoo is tagged as: 80s, new wave, pop, new romantic, synth pop

Kajagoogoo is an English pop band best known for its first single, ”Too Shy”, which reached Number 1 in the UK and Number 5 in the U.S in 1983. The single was produced by keyboardist Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran and Colin Thurston who was, at this time, Duran Duran’s in-house producer.
The band was founded in Leighton Buzzard in 1979 as a four piece avant-garde instrumental group called Art Nouveau, with Nick Beggs on bass guitar, Steve Askew on lead guitar, Stuart Neale on keyboards and Jez Strode on drums. Art Nouveau released a track called “The Fear Machine”. The single sold a few hundred copies, and was played on the John Peel show, but the band could not get a record deal.
In 1981, they advertised for and auditioned lead singers, and finally chose Christopher Hamill. He made his profile, and therefore that of the band, catchier by using an anagram of his surname for his stage name, becoming Limahl. The name of the band was then changed to Kajagoogoo. Writing out the phonetics of a baby’s first sounds gave them “GagaGooGoo”. With a little bit of “casual” alteration it became Kajagoogoo.
The band attracted the interest of three record labels (and Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes) while performing at the Embassy...
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Top 10 Kajagoogoo Songs
Too Shy
White Feathers
The Power To Forgive
Turn Your Back On Me
Ooh To Be Ah
Big Apple
Ergonomics
Magician Man
This Car Is Fast
Kajagoogoo (Instrumental)
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Top 10 Kajagoogoo Albums
White Feathers
Islands
Gone To The Moon
The Very Best of Kajagoogoo
Too Shy: The Singles and More
Too Shy - The Singles And More
BBC In Concert (30th May 1983, Live at the Hammersmith Odeon)
Best of the 80's
Kajagoogoo - so80s (compiled by Blank & Jones)
The Very Best Of Kajagoogoo And Limahl
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