Kim Wilde Duets With Boy George On 'Shine On' - Noise11.com
Kim Wilde, Melbourne, Ros O'Gorman, Image, Photo

Kim Wilde, Photo by Ros O'Gorman

Kim Wilde Duets With Boy George On ‘Shine On’

by Music-News.com on June 20, 2022

in News

Kim Wilde is so glad she got “icon” Boy George on her recent single ‘Shine On’.

Wilde asked George if he would lend his vocals to the track and it ended up on her 2021 ‘Pop Don’t Stop: Greatest Hits’ LP.

She told Best magazine: “We recorded a song in lockdown – that ended up in my greatest hits record.

“I wanted him to be on it, he’s such an icon!”

Kim is joining Boy George and Culture Club on tour next month and “can’t wait”.

Kim Wilde will then head out on her delayed headline tour in September, celebrating more than 40 years in music.

And Wilde admits it feels like a “lifetime” has passed since she was a fresh-faced 20-year-old singing ‘Kids In America’.

She said: “I’ve got a great band behind me and we’re throwing a lot at it as joyful as we can … that 20-year-old that sang ‘Kids In America’ feels like a lifetime ago, hanging out with Hot Chocolate and Suzi Quatro – the days of ‘Top of the Pops’, before mobile phones and the internet.

“I feel like I’m living in a parallel world now.”

Meanwhile, Kim previously revealed she lost out on her “dream job” because of her pop success.

Her instant fame meant she had to turn down the opportunity of being a sales assistant at a local record store, somewhere she’d always wanted to work.

She recalled: “Mum sent me to the Job Centre and they said, ‘What do you want to do? I said, ‘I want to work in a record shop.’

A few months later, a record shop in Hertford needed an assistant and the Job Centre sent me details.

“I felt pretty ­confident I could get the job because I had an immense music knowledge. We almost had a record shop in the house.

“But ‘Kids in America’ charted and scuppered my plans. I was all set to have my dream job and it got snatched away from me by a hit record.”

music-news.com

Be the first to see NOISE.com’s newest interviews and special features on YOUTUBE and updated regularly. See things first SUBSCRIBE here: Noise11 on YouTube SUBSCRIBE

Noise11.com

Follow Noise11 on Social Media

Noise11 on Instagram

You’ll discover music news first following Noise11 on Twitter

Comment on the news of the day, join Noise11 on Facebook

Related Posts

Swanee Believe
Swanee Posts Heartfelt Video For ‘Believe’ Album

Swanee has posted a heartfelt video thanking everyone involved with his first album in over a decade ‘Believe’. He has his brothers Jimmy Barnes and Alan Barnes on the record and said he would have had his sister Linda had she not passed away when she did.

3 hours ago
Tony Hadley by Mary Boukouvalas
Tony Hadley To Return for 2026 Australian Tour

Ex-Spandau Ballet frontman Tony Hadley is coming back to Australia in March 2026.

3 days ago
Spaceballs 2
Mel Brooks is Making ‘Spaceballs 2’ After 38 Years

38 years after his hilarious Star Wars spoof ‘Spaceballs’, Mel Brooks has announced a sequel ‘Spaceballs 2’ is coming in 2027.

5 days ago
Paul Weller photo by Ros O'Gorman
Check Out Paul Weller Covering The Bee Gees ‘I Started A Joke’

Paul Weller has released his version of the Bee Gees 1968 classic ‘I Started A Joke’ from his upcoming ‘Find El Dorado’ album.

5 days ago
Fred Loneragan Machinations 1984
Fred Loneragan Doesn’t Rule Out A Fourth Machinations Album

In the 1980s, Machinations released three albums ‘Esteem’ (1983), ‘Big Music’ (1985) and ‘Uptown’ (1988). Singer and co-founder Fred Loneragan isn’t ruling out the possibility of a long overdue fourth album for 2026.

6 days ago
Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden in Melbourne 6 Sept 24 photo by Jason Rosewarne
Bruce Dickinson To Appear in ABBA Horror Movie ‘Bjorn of the Dead’

Bruce Dickinson is starring in 'Bjorn of the Dead'. Dickinson has been cast in the new movie that centres on an ABBA tribute band who find themselves trapped in a nightclub at the beginning of the apocalypse.

June 9, 2025
Belinda Carlisle Once Up A Time In California
Belinda Carlisle Premieres Hollies Cover Ahead of ‘Once Upon a Time In California’ Album

Belinda Carlisle is leading her first album since 2017, ‘Once Upon a Time In California’, with her cover of The Hollies ‘The Air That I Breathe’.

June 6, 2025