Limahl

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Limahl in England, 2007

Limahl (born December 19, 1958 in Wigan , Lancashire , United Kingdom ; actually Christopher Hamill ) is a British pop singer .

Career

1980s: Start of career and success with Kajagoogoo

Chris Hamill began his musical career in 1980 when he released the single It's Christmas under his real name . However, his breakthrough came as a singer in the band Kajagoogoo . The four other band members were looking for a front man who could sing and who should look good through an ad in various music magazines. Hamill changed his name to Limahl, an anagram of his last name, and answered the ad.

Kajagoogoo's debut single Too Shy stormed to number one in the UK charts shortly after its release in early 1983 and sold over four million copies worldwide. After two more hits ( Ooh to Be Ah and Hang On Now ) Limahl left the band after internal differences in 1983 and started a solo career.

He achieved his first successes with the singles Only for Love and Too Much Trouble . However, he landed the biggest hit of his career in collaboration with Giorgio Moroder in 1984 with The NeverEnding Story , the theme song for the US version of the film The Neverending Story . Moroder produced another Limahl album in 1986 entitled Color All My Days and the smaller hit Love in Your Eyes .

The single Inside to Outside from 1986 is a cover version of the title of the German group Lake from their album So What! from the same year.

1990s: comeback attempts

In the early 1990s Limahl tried to build on the success of earlier days with Too Shy '92 . However , this was not granted to the accompanying album Love Is Blind . While Don't Suppose was a Top 10 album with number 6 in the German charts and Color All My Days made it to number 45, Love Is Blind was not convincing and did not even make it into the Top 100. A version of the album expanded by two bonus tracks was released for the Japanese market.

Since the 1990s and his coming out , Limahl has mainly appeared in 80s revival shows .

Since 2000: musicals, comeback shows and re-establishment of Kajagoogoo

In 2000/2001 he played a leading role in the musical What a Feeling . In 2004 he took part in the German show Comeback - The Big Chance , in which he finished fourth.

In 2006 Limahl released a new single: Tell Me Why . A best of album followed. The artist's video can be found on his website. In early 2008, 25 years after Kajagoogoo left, Limahl rejoined his old band. At the end of 2009 the two albums Don't Suppose and Color All My Days were released as downloads with bonus remixes and 12 " versions.

In December 2012, he took part in the UK reality show I'm a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! part, the role model for the German show Ich bin ein Star - Get me out of here! and finished 10th out of 12 candidates.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1984 Don't suppose DE6 (18 weeks)
DE 		AT10 (14 weeks)
AT 		CH6 (8 weeks)
CH 		UK63 (3 weeks)
UK 		US41 (20 weeks)
US
1986 Color All My Days DE45 (3 weeks)
DE 		- - - -

More albums

  • 1992: Love Is Blind

Compilations

  • 1993: The Singles and More (Kajagoogoo and Limahl)
  • 1996: The Best of Limahl
  • 1996: The Best Of (Kajagoogoo and Limahl)
  • 1998: Limahl's Greatest Hits
  • 2000: Kajagoogoo & Limahl (Kajagoogoo and Limahl)
  • 2002: Never Ending Story
  • 2003: The Very Best of Kajagoogoo and Limahl (Kajagoogoo and Limahl)
  • 2009: Too Shy: The Best of Kajagoogoo & Limahl (Kajagoogoo and Limahl)
  • 2012: The Hits (Kajagoogoo and Limahl)
  • 2014: Original Album Series (Kajagoogoo and Limahl) (box set)

Singles

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK US US
1983 Only for Love
Don't Suppose 		DE8 (17 weeks)
DE 		AT9 (8 weeks)
AT 		CH5 (10 weeks)
CH 		UK16 (9 weeks)
UK 		US51 (7 weeks)
US
First published: October 1983
1984 Too Much Trouble
Don't Suppose 		DE26 (9 weeks)
DE 		- - UK64 (3 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: June 1984
The NeverEnding Story
Don't Suppose 		DE2 (22 weeks)
DE 		AT2 (16 weeks)
AT 		CH3 (14 weeks)
CH 		UK4th
silver
silver

(14 weeks)UK 		US17 (19 weeks)
US
First published: August 1984
Tar Beach
Don't Suppose 		DE30 (8 weeks)
DE 		- - - -
First published: November 1984
1986 Love in Your Eyes
Color All My Days 		DE28 (13 weeks)
DE 		- CH26 (4 weeks)
CH 		UK80 (4 weeks)
UK 		-
First published: May 1986
Inside to Outside
Color All My Days 		DE57 (5 weeks)
DE 		- - - -
First published: August 1986
2004 Survivor
 DE22 (6 weeks)
DE 		AT50 (3 weeks)
AT 		- - -
First release: March 2004
as Comeback United (with Haddaway , Chris Norman , CC Catch and others)
2006 Tell Me Why
 DE96 (3 weeks)
DE 		- - - -
First published: May 2006

More singles

  • 1980: It's Christmas (as Chris Hamill)
  • 1981: Angel (as Chris Hamill)
  • 1986: Color All My Days (Da color a mis días)
  • 1986: No lo pienses mas (Spanish version of Color All My Days )
  • 1991: Stop (Bassline feat. Limahl)
  • 1991: Maybe This Time (Bassline feat. Limahl)
  • 1992: Love Is Blind
  • 1992: Too Shy '92 Remix
  • 1996: Walking in Rhythm (Shy Guy feat.Limahl)
  • 2006: Too Shy (vs. Julian Créance)
  • 2008: Too Shy 2008 (Physics feat. Limahl)
  • 2009: Superior Love (The Dark Side) ( Sara Noxx feat. Limahl feat. 18 Summers)
  • 2012: 1983
  • 2012: London for Christmas

Filmography

Awards

  • 1983: Bravo Otto in gold
  • 1984: Bravo Otto in gold

Trivia

  • In the first edition of Limahl's debut album Don't Suppose , his later global hit The Never Ending Story was not present at all. On side A of the LP, track 5 is The Greenhouse Effect . Only a later version of the Don't Suppose longplay with a modified track listing became a mega-seller and the replaced The Greenhouse Effect was pressed onto the B-side of the single Tar Beach .

swell

  1. ↑ candidate profile at ITV
  2. ↑ a b Chart sources: Singles / Comeback United / Albums / UK / Billboard 200
  3. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK
  4. ↑ Release date of "Survivor" (Comeback United)
  5. ↑ BRAVO Otto Sieger 1983
  6. ↑ BRAVO Otto Sieger 1984

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Limahl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamill, Christopher (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British pop singer
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Wigan , Lancashire