Kajagoogoo

I do love the seedy New York City atmosphere, which is my favorite movie location for late '70s and early '80s features, whether it be Taxi Driver, Cruising, The New York Ripper, or even Ferrara's next movie, Ms. 45.

I can't resist a sleazy slice of the Big Apple." And the Big Apple, coincidentally, is the name of the fourth single and third top 10 hit for Kajagoogoo, whose box set comes out in November.

[laughs]

There you go, just...

"The man who owns this bass nearly had a record deal with EMI in 1983.

His band were called Furious Moonlight, and they toured two dates with Kajagoogoo in Denmark.

And there was a six-month period in Limerick City when you couldn't enter a men's toilet without hearing someone say, 'Furious Moonlight will be the Irish Flock of Seagulls.' And John Peel almost aired their demo tape on BBC Radio 1, but the IRA bombed Woolwich that weekend, and that fucked it all.

And the record labels went cold.

Good one, Brady, go.

Kajagoogoo, too shy.

Too shy, hush,

hush, how do I? Mine, immediately, aha.

This is one I've always been too shy to try.

Please don't be too shy by Kajagoogoo.

Please.

It's not.

So when I was growing up, it was all the sort of boy bands.

It was like Adam and Nance, Kajagoogoo.

you can't remember I don't know yeah

Duran Duran Spandau Bali you know I had all that around my room you know I had because there used to be a magazine that came out once a week called Jackie and I used to get it delivered to the house or was it once a fortnight I can't remember now and the the centerfold would be a picture you had the smash hits magazine yeah you would take the pictures out and you would put them on your walls and i had you know i had them even my favorite one would be when i would lie in my bed and i'd have it on my ceiling for fuck's sake

That track was from The Animals called Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood.

And before that, we had Kajagoogoo, which was their second single, Ooh To Be Ah.

Yeah, well, they were a flash in the pan.

Yeah, but they were all right.

Was I on that one? Oh, yeah, I remember.

He called me Kajagoogoo.

Yeah, I remember that one.

[laughs]

Mm-hmm

... former lead singer of Kajagoogoo-

Mm-hmm

... was having a difficult time.

[laughing]

... remember them, or Kajagoogoo?

[laughing]

I mean, and some of you guys are laughing like, [laughs] "Ha, you're so dumb," you know, and the younger people, "Yeah, you listen to Lady Gaga."

Hello? Hannah came into view, the extended hand connected to her alabaster body by an arm so delicate it could have been that of an angel itself.

She was wearing an oversized Kajagoogoo t-shirt, and if the suddenly bright moonlight behind her illuminating that which lurked beneath the smug smile of Limhall was to be believed, absolutely nothing else.

Hannah? Yeah? What are you doing out there? Trying to get your attention.

Well, you definitely got that.