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‘The more the music press slagged us, the more copies we sold’: Kajagoogoo on Too Shy

‘The demo Nick Rhodes took to EMI was the same one they had rejected, but when it was presented again by a million-selling pop star they took notice’

He gave me an address to send a cassette to, and a week later called saying: “I’m gonna tell our record company I want to produce you.” When I picked myself up off the floor I phoned the band. The intro where I sing one note was actually me warming my voice up, but Colin said: “Let’s leave it in for now and see how we feel.” After we’d finished recording I met [the DJ] Paul Gambaccini in Heaven nightclub and gave him a tape of it. In the New Romantic era we tried to channel influences such as XTC and Devo, but we financed Art Nouveau by playing covers in a working men’s club band, the Handstands.

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