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Kajagoogoo are a United Kingdom|British pop band, best known for their first single (music)|single, "Too Shy", which reached Number 1 in the UK Singles Chart, and Number 5 in the United States of America|U.S. Billboard Hot 100, in 1983 in music|1983. The single was produced by Duran Duran's keyboard (instrument)|keyboardist Nick Rhodes, and by Colin Thurston, Duran Duran's in-house Record producer|producer at the time.
Early beginnings
The band was originally founded in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, in 1979 in music|1979, as a four-piece avant-garde instrumental group, called Art Nouveau, with Nick Beggs on bass guitar, Steve Askew on lead guitar, Stuart Croxford Neale on Keyboard instrument|keyboards, and Jez Strode (born Jeremy) on drums. Art Nouveau released a track called "The Fear Machine". The single sold a few hundred copies, and was played on the John Peel show, but the band could not get a record deal.
In 1981 in music|1981, they advertised for, and auditioned, lead singers, and finally chose Limahl|Christopher Hamill. He made his profile, and therefore that of the band, catchier by using an anagram of his surname for his stage name, becoming Limahl, matched with his typical double colour hairdo (blond on top and black on sides). The name of the group was then changed to the also catchier Kajagoogoo: writing out the phonetics of a bab... read all
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