The KAJAGOOGOO debut appearance on TOP OF THE POPS (BBC 1) Thursday 6th January 1983 with our first single TOO SHY - which was then the UK’s biggest music show with an average weekly audience of 15-20 million. Watching this again now, I find interesting how the production team and director had obviously made a creative decision to focus mainly on the band’s faces for the song’s introduction and not their instruments 🤔 I’ll never forget the joy and excitement when on Tuesday of that week, the te

#musicmonday with an extract from an interview on the road with 1980's new wave band Kajagoogoo filmed for the series CB-TV in 1983. | Thames TV Archive

WELL-CONCEIVED-WEDNESDAY folks . . . and continuing all this week with the 40th anniversary of ‘TOO SHY’ reaching No’1 on the official UK music charts in Feb 1983 - a song I co-wrote with my fellow KAJAGOOGOO band members at the council flat living room of our bass player Nick in the town of Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire (UK). Stuart (Croxford-Neale) on keyboards programmed those beautiful, seductive synth-pad chords on the intro which inspired Nick’s fabulous bass line and the rest as they say

Kajagoogoo - Too Shy (1983) | Sαmιά ‘