WILDE IN THE STREETS
“MCA’s tactics toward my career have changed markedly over the last six months,” Kim Wilde casually analyses during a marketing meeting... er, a discussion. Wilde is a hitmaker, you see. Not an artist. Not even a singing sensation. She sets her sights on the top of the charts, and by golly, she gets there.
WILDE IN THE STREETS
“MCA’s tactics toward my career have changed markedly over the last six months,” Kim Wilde casually analyses during a marketing meeting... er, a discussion.
Wilde is a hitmaker, you see. Not an artist. Not even a singing sensation. She sets her sights on the top of the charts, and by golly, she gets there. Worldwide, she’s released 14 singles and five albums (three in the U.S.). At the tender age of 20 she zoomed to numero uno with the poppish “Kids Of America,” her very first recording. And now, six years later, she’s landed back on top with her cover of the Motown classic “You Keep Me Hanging On.” All this is with the aid of her brother Ricki (songwriter, producer, keyboardist), father Marty (songwriter and former ’60s U.K. hitmaker in his own right) and mother “Mum” (business manager). They’re the English Osmonds.
“Oh, don’t say that,” Ricki groans. “We just know that together we make great records.”
"It’s not religion that keeps us together,” Kim butts in, as sisters do. “It’s more along the lines of mutual respect.”