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Kajagoogoo was the British pop band best known for its 1st lone, "Too Shy", which reached First in the UK & Total Five in the U.S inside 1983. A only was by keyboardist Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran.

A band was founded around Leighton Buzzard in 1979 as a four piece avant-garde instrumental group called Art Nouveau, using Nick Beggs on bass guitar, Steve Askew on lead guitar, Stuart Neale on keyboards and Jez Strode on drums. Art Nouveau freed the track known as "The Fear Machine". A only sold two or three centred copies, & was played on the John Peel show, but the band may not make their way a record treat.

Within 1981, it advertised for & auditioned lead singers, & eventually chose Christopher Hamill. He mass produced his profile, & so that of the band, catchier by utilizing an anagram of his surname for his stage name, becoming Limahl. A title of the band was so changed to Kajagoogoo. Writing out a phonetics of a binky users's 1st sounds gave the children "GagaGooGoo". Sustaining a trifle bit of "casual" alteration it became Kajagoogoo.

A b& attracted a interest of leash record labels (and Duran Duran's Nick Rhodes) when performing at a Embassy Club in London. A band was signed to EMI in July of 1982, and Rhodes was signed to make their number 1 album, White Feathers. A debut only "Too Shy" was freed around January of 1983 and went to the top of the charts (prior to any of Duran Duran's singles experienced done thus, Rhodes noted contritely). Watch-higher releases "Ooh to Be Ah" & "Hang on Now" two reached a UK top twenty too.

A band fired Limahl inside 1983 after a vast disagreement, using Beggs ingesting above when singer, however a hits dried higher wholly. It tried the relaunch when Kaja within 1985 which failed, and it broke higher permanently inside 1986.

Limahl enjoyed a briefly successful solo career, scoring the hit by using the film theme song "Neverending Story" in 1984.

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