Growing up with rock ’n’ roll icon Marty for a dad, Kim Wilde admits her childhood ambition was always to sell plenty of records – not as a chart-topping singer but in a shop flogging vinyl.
In fact, the 80s superstar jokes that bursting onto the scene as a 20-year-old with her top 10 hit Kids in America scuppered her dream.
And while she was obviously thrilled with the song there was disappointment to come when it was pipped to Number One by Shakin’ Stevens’ Green Door.
Kim tells how she had been looking for work as a teenager while Kids in America was being written – and her house was full to brimming with her dad’s vinyl collection.
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