I’ve always enjoyed all my jobs, whether it was cleaning the stairs for my piano teacher or working at Lister hospital one summer. I was dashing off to get a car home and he was going to wander back into the crowd that we were leaving, and somehow our lips found each other. It’s near Area 51 in Nevada where, apparently, UFO stuff goes on and there are aliens actually resident. I would like to go to the Little A’Le’Inn. What did you want to be when you were growing up?Ī pop star: I loved music from a very young age. What do you most dislike about your appearance?Īs I have got older, there’s a little bit more of me to love than there used to be.
It’s crushingly embarrassing my daughter sometimes puts it up on her laptop to wind me up, and I have to leave the room.Ī box of poetry from when I first met my husband, Hal. What is the trait you most deplore in others?īeing filmed very drunk, singing on a train at Christmas wearing antlers. I get pretty panicky when I have to do anything that requires logical thinking. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? What a fascinating force of nature she is. She has reached into the hearts and minds of people all over the world and woken them up to the terrible impact we are having on our planet. Which living person do you most admire and why? I was three and I think that’s when my love affair with all things snowy began.
I love the process of getting older and, sometimes, wiser. She is married with two children and lives in Hertfordshire. Aliens Live, her first live album, is out on 16 August. She continues to record and perform music, and is also an award-winning gardener (and former Weekend columnist). In 1981 her debut single, Kids In America, was a global hit and she went on to sell 30m records.
Kim Wilde: ‘As I have got older, there’s a little bit more of me to love than there used to be.’ Photograph: Jonas Holthaus.īorn in London, Wilde, 58, is the daughter of singers Marty Wilde and Joyce Baker. The singer on Greta Thunberg and wanting to visit Nevada to meet the aliens The Guardian (UK-Saturday 3rd July 2019) : The single “60s World” will be released alongside the album “Running Together” on Friday 2nd October 2020. He plans to perform it on a 50 date tour next year once the current coronavirus restrictions are lifted. Unlike Dame Shirley Bassey’s new album which she billed as a “grand finale” earlier this week, this LP will only be the start for Marty. I recorded this album with my youngest daughter Roxanne, as I wanted her to perform the songs that needed that special woman’s touch, and were written especially for her.” “I’ve hand-picked each track to depict my journey over the decades it’s a musical slice of history. Referring to his new album, Marty added: “It’s the album I’ve always wanted to write. Originally born Reginald Smith, from mid-1958 to the end of 1959, Wilde was one of the leading British rock and roll singers, along with Tommy Steele and Cliff Richard with his backing group called the Wildcats. The new album also features Marty’s other daughter Roxanne Rizzo-Wilde with additional input from son, Ricky who is a songwriter. Marty and Kim have even managed to film a video for the single in lockdown, even though they can’t be stood beside each other. Marty’s daughter Kim carved out a remarkable career for herself as she followed in her dad’s musical footsteps. “And what better way to celebrate than by bringing back the sound of the 60’s, but with a modern twist.” “Every day of my life has been special with Joyce and the family, and I wanted to go back to 1960, where it all began. It’s 60 years since the start of the decade, 60 years that we’ve been married and 60 years since our gorgeous Kim was born. Marty, who had a pacemaker fitted during lockdown after collapsing at home, said: “60’s World is my way of celebrating Joyce, the woman that I’ve loved, and whose been the rock of our family, for 60 years. The track is taken from Marty’s historic new album, Running Together, which is a 15-track musical journey through the past eight decades of Marty’s life with the songs all self-penned or co-written by him.Īt 81, Marty is the only living rocker to have had hit singles or albums across eight decades – beating even his old pal Cliff Richard.Īnd he wrote many of daughter Kim’s 80s hits including Kids in America, Chequered Love, Four Letter Word and Cambodia. Rock ’n’ roll godfather Marty Wilde has recorded his first duet with Brit Award winning daughter Kim Wilde to be officially released as a single. Marty Wilde says music is his ‘religion’ as he turns 80. Rock ‘n’ roll icon Marty Wilde duets with daughter Kim as he teases 50-date tour aged 81ĮXCLUSIVE: Marty Wilde has told he intends to perform a 50-date tour in his 80s, after teaming up with Brit-winning daughter Kim on their first duet.
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