Story of a New Wave HIT from a Band with the Longest Single Name of the 80s | Professor of Rock

In 1983 in the midst of the 2nd British invasion new wave band Kajagoogoo scaled the top of the US charts with a one hit wonder for the ages. Too Shy has become an 80s classic still universally used in pop culture. The former lead singer Limahl tells the story of this wonderful ditty next on professor of rock.

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The term One Hit Wonder is an interesting one because it doesn’t capture a band or their song universally. What I mean is that a lot of times it’s inaccurate when describing an artist and their music. Nobody would ever call Jimi Hendrix a one hit wonder because he had one chart hit in america ditto the Grateful Dead, who had their one charting hit decades after starting with Touch of Grey. Sometimes an artist can have many hits on the other side of the ocean like Robbie Williams or Frankie Goes to Hollywood and be deemed a one hitter here in the states so on here we celebrate the big single chats hits, calling them Bottled Lightening, when music and culture combined to make history.

1983 had one such hit. As the British had invaded America airwaves for a second time with Duran Duran, the Police, Gary Numan Joe Jackson and others infiltrating the charts challenging the mellow soft rock of the time a band called Kajagogoo named after the sound a baby makes started their ascent with a bass infused synth pop ditty called Too Shy. It had already hit #1 in the UK in January of 83.

Kajagoogoo had started out as Art Nouveau, forming in Leighton Buzzard Bedfroshire in 1978. They were a avant grade quintet with Nick Beggs on bass, Steve Askew on lead guitar, Stuart Croxford Neale on keyboards, and Jez Strode on drums. They released a single "The Fear Machine", which sold a couple hundred copies and were on John Peel’s show but weren’t able to lock down a record deal.

In 1981, they advertised in a local paper for a new lead singer. Enter Christopher Hamill, who’s stage name is Limahl which is an anagram of his surname). From there they changed their name to Kajagoogoo… They signed with EMI record in mid 1982. This was after Limahl met Duran Duran keyboarders Nick Rhoades while he was working as a waiter at London’s Embassy Club. This would prove to be a fateful meeting as Rhodes would end up co-producing Too Shy, the band’s debut single, actually Rhodes and longtime Duran Duran producer Colin Thurston both worked on Too Shy.

We have the story of that one from Limahl that’s up on on Patreon if you want to see it there… coming right up the story of one of the awesome 80s greatest songs Too Shy as told by former singer Limahl as we go into As we go into this interview I want to thank our sponsor Zennie Eyewear. Go get yourself a new pair of glasses or sunglasses at Zenni.com, you can design your own like mine, I had them put professor of rock on the side. here. You choose and do a virtual 3d try on before buy. Here is Limahl with the story of an 80s classic.

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