Picking up fame as a part of the popular 'new wave' movement, her second album, 'Select', was released in May 1982. It contained the hits "Cambodia" and "View From a Bridge". Her third album (and last album with RAK), was 'Catch as Catch Can', which came out in November 1983. Sadly, it wasn't much of a success, though tracks "Love Blonde" and "Dancing In the Dark" from the album became minor hits.
When Kim signed with MCA records in 1984, many doubting critics believed that her run of hits were over. Simply put, they were wrong. Kim's first album with MCA, 'Teases & Dares', came out in November 1984. Though not a huge commercial success as an album, it earned praising critical reviews and much fan support while also including three hit singles. Popular tune "Rage To Love" became Wilde's first top 20 hit in two years.
In October 1986, Kim released a cover of The Supremes song You Keep Me Hangin' on - it was a huge hit, number 2 in the UK and in the singles chart for 14 weeks, even better the song got to number 1 in the USA. Kim was now a superstar around the globe. Another Step (her 5th studio album) was released in Nov 1986 and spent 5 weeks in the UK charts. The title track Another Step (Closer to You), (a duet with Junior) and Say You Really Want Me were also singles.
In June 1988, Kim released her most successful studio album to date Close which spent 38 weeks in the UK album charts. Close contained 3 top ten hits You Came, Never Trust A Stranger and Four Letter Word. Around this time Kim was the support act on Michael Jackson's huge Bad tour.
Her 7th and 8th albums, 1990's Love Moves and 1992's Love Is did not match the success of Close, however Love Is boasted another top 20 hit single with the Rick Nowels penned Love Is Holy.
In September 1993, MCA released the first 'official' greatest hits album called The Singles Collection 1981-1993 (which contained all her biggest hits from the RAK years as well as the more recent MCA hits and two brand new singles If I Can't Have You, a top twenty hit in July 1993 (a cover version of the Yvonne Elliman classic) and the Kim penned In My Life.
In 1995, Kim released her 9th studio album Now and Forever, it was not a hit album in the UK but suffered no promotion. It contained two top 50 hits Breakin' Away and This I Swear.
In 1996, Kim released Shame, a cover of the disco song made famous by Evelyn "Champagne" King. Unfortunately the song failed to dent the UK top 100.
In 2001, to celebrate the release of another greatest Hits album, Kim released a new song Loved, co-written by Ronald & Masterton who are famous for their work with Dannii Minogue. Sadly Loved failed to enter the UK singles chart.
Kim is still making music and is also equally famous for her gardening skills. She continues to have success in Europe and had a huge hit in 2003 with Anyplace Anywhere Anytime, a duet with Nena.
In 2006 Kim released a studio album, "Never Say Never." The album includes new tracks and some remixes and remakes of classic Kim songs such as You Came, Cambodia and Kids In America. Also for the new album called Never Say Never Kim has re-recorded You Keep Me Hangin' On as a duet with Nena.
In 2018 she released "Here Come The Aliens," which is in a pop-rock style. Reviewing the album for MusicPlayers.com, Scott Kahn states "There’s not a weak song to be found in this collection of pop rock songs. We love that Here Comes The Aliens has the vibe of a real rock record, with strong musical performances throughout."
In My Life
Kim Wilde Lyrics
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Search for the truth you know that is real
Then reach for the place you know they can't steal
And say, I'm feeling good with my life
No point in letting life bring you down
There's always something bad hangin' round
Face up to trouble and stare it out
In my life - everything is feeling good
In my life - feeling like you know it should
In my life - can't you see it's understood
I'm feeling good with my life
No better place to start than with you
Get your head together then follow through
It's not what you're saying it's what you do
I know I'm feeling good with my life
Don't fantasize how your life could be
Make all your dreams a reality
Then there is nothing can bring you down
I know I'm feeling good with my life
In my life - everything is feeling good
In my life - feeling like you know it should
In my life - can't you see it's understood
I'm feeling good with my life
We've got to make it living together
Learning to share our lives
We've got to speak from the heart
Find a new way to start
That's something we've all got to realise
In my life
The song "In My Life" by Kim Wilde is a celebratory anthem that encourages listeners to embrace their individual strengths, search for the truth they know is real, and fight to protect what is important to them. The lyrics evoke a sense of resilience and inner peace, urging people to overcome the troubles that come their way and to focus on the positives in their lives.
The opening lines "Look for the strength you know you can feel / Search for the truth you know that is real / Then reach for the place you know they can't steal" emphasize the importance of tapping into one's inner strength and pursuing truth and authenticity. This is followed by the chorus which repeats the phrase "I'm feeling good with my life" as an affirmation of this message.
The following stanza discusses the inevitability of trouble but urges listeners to confront their problems head-on and never let them bring them down. The bridge emphasizes the importance of taking personal responsibility for one's life and making their dreams into reality, rather than simply fantasizing about them. The song ends on a message of unity, urging people to come together and speak from the heart, finding new ways to live and connect with one another.
Overall, "In My Life" is a message of resilience, positivity, and self-empowerment, encouraging listeners to find the strength within themselves to face challenges and live a fulfilling life.
Line by Line Meaning
Look for the strength you know you can feel
Find the courage within yourself that you know exists
Search for the truth you know that is real
Find the genuine essence of life that you're aware of
Then reach for the place you know they can't steal
Strive for a position or a state that is impregnable
And say, I'm feeling good with my life
Expressing in words, the feeling of satisfaction from your life
No point in letting life bring you down
It's pointless to allow the negative aspects of life to get to you
There's always something bad hangin' round
There will always be problems that you have to face
Face up to trouble and stare it out
Confront difficulties head-on and overcome them
I know I'm feeling good with my life
I am sure and content with the current state of my existence
In my life - everything is feeling good
In my present moment, all aspects of my life seem positive
In my life - feeling like you know it should
I'm experiencing life in a way that feels suitable and fitting
In my life - can't you see it's understood
It's evident that I'm perceiving and enjoying life appropriately
No better place to start than with you
The best place to initiate improvements is within oneself
Get your head together then follow through
Organize your thoughts and plans, then put them into action
It's not what you're saying it's what you do
It's the actions, not words, that matter
Don't fantasize how your life could be
Avoid imagining a better life that may never be actualized
Make all your dreams a reality
Materialize all the ambitions that you have
Then there is nothing can bring you down
Achieving your goals makes you invincible to adversities
We've got to make it living together
As humans, we need to coexist harmoniously
Learning to share our lives
Learning to live and support each other
We've got to speak from the heart
We need to communicate authentically
Find a new way to start
Find a fresh approach to begin something
That's something we've all got to realise
Indeed, we must all comprehend this truth
In my life
In my existence
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Peermusic Publishing
Written by: KIM WILDE, RICK WILDE
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
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@Catriona Stokes Popularity is no substitute for talent and does not reflect logic. So by your own then, anything bought is good. So everyone who ever has had hits is obviously good as "people bought their records". So therefore everything that flops is obviously rubbish. Of course, why did I never get that.
I DO deny her successful career cos I feel it's an embarrassing sign of our times that a silly little girl with a robotic thin voice and no writing ability but a good bum and aspirations to be slagdonna is allowed to just bore us forever with increasingly worse identikit muzak any factory churns out. Leaving S/A/W in a desperate attempt to move with the times (1994-2004) gave her her best run of songs you could actually like and weren't embarrassing, but they are still nothing special. Minogue does not reinvent herself! Why do people say this. Ok, I get it, you love Kylie, so you'll agree with any rubbish she puts out, even though she's been dwindling for a decade a more. She simply sums up the most puzzling thing about the UK-how they'll keep accepting something interchangably unimportant like her, yet drop others in 5 minutes! That's nothing to do with success or fair play and everything to do with luck.
Don't see how Lauper's biggest song being redone to try and get her compilation into the charts high had anything to do with suiting the market. Her last 2 albums flopped dreadfully, so it was simply expected, but still unwelcome. And all it did was remind us she was past it as her next album continued the decline.
I'm glad you love Kim, cos you sound more a kylie fanatic. The 90s was for Kim, though she sadly did very little of the 80s sparkers, it was all love/soul stuff, one of the pervading minues of the 90s, but she was still there and still selling, and European success continued unabated. She wasn't beaten by anything, the music world had gone crap. She did her soul album to respect, and then the first baby got in the way of the 1998 album, which an arsehole who worked on it said it couldn't be released without his permission. It was never given. She was never going to fight for that album as (a) she cares little about her own stuff, hence her live shows only ever feature the same few songs she always does and (b) who fights a legal battle with two tiny children to bring up?
Just one thing, though. You say that today's music is much worse than the 90s! Well, that's a given, but also makes no sense. How can it be. If it's selling, as you say, and "lots of people bought it" and these losers are having "successful careers" that we can't knock it right? Isn't that what you just said about Minogue and S/A/W. Of course people bought all that shit. In 1988 a real dumbing down on the music world had begun. Madonna and Waterman, well done you, you're both to blame.
cely84110
toujours un plaisir d'écouter kim, les années passent, le talent reste….
Fearyourown Spirit
Absolutely in love with this track 2019
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1993 🙂 2019 😁 2021 😃 2022... 🥳🥳🥳
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James Manard
I love this song always have. I never knew it was actually a single ?!
Neil Storton
I never knew this was a single. I remember it from the greatest hits. Its cool
Love Earth
Timeless beauty