Come this or next year, Limahl “will be” dropping his first full length in “30 years.”
Shooting to international fame in the 1980s as a member of the boy band Kajagoogoo, the musician (born Christopher Hamill,) subsequently recognized success as a solo artist with the release of ‘A Horse With No Name’, a cover of America’s 1971 track, ‘Still in Love’ and ‘One Wish for Christmas.’
Now motivated to release a new album, the 66-year old told Contactmusic.com:
“My last three singles have all – I think they’ve been a really good standard with really strong videos, and I feel like I can hold my head up high with those tracks, and it’s actually encouraged me to do an album.” “I’ve got some really great songs just sitting there waiting. So in ’26, or ’27, I will be coming back with my first album in, I don’t know, 30 years.”
Following the release of his last LP ‘Love Is Blind,’ in 1992, the UK-born artist has spent “months” working away on his new single that blends electronic-sounding beats with America’s ‘… Horse With No Name’ classic that Limahl said has acted as a “friend” in his life, adding:
“I am so proud! You have no idea of the journey that the production has been through.” “I worked on it. I left it. I worked on it. I left it. I worked on it. I left it because, sometimes, you just get to the point where you just can’t hear it anymore.” “And then my sister and my partner, Steve, were both saying, ‘Well, you’ve got to release this. You’ve got to release this.’ ” “And finally, after enough space, I started working on the video. And that really emboldened me. It was so much fun trying to create an interpretation of those bonkers lyrics.”
Limahl dropped his first cover song because he wanted to “put my own stamp on it”, explaining:
“Well, I’ve always loved the journey of having this spark here.” “And from nowhere. And then suddenly, in three months, I’m listening back to something that started here. And I’m going. ‘Wow, wow! This is exciting.’ Or, ‘Oh, that’s terrible! On the shelf with that!’ ” “But you know, there is a challenge in doing a cover. And, you know, one of my favourite singers of all time, Luther Vandross. He was a great songwriter. But when he did covers, OMG, they were so good, he did a cover of Karen Carpenter’s song, ‘Superstar’, and he brought his own stamp on it.” “And that’s what I’ve tried to do with Horse. Put my own stamp on it. initially. I thought, ‘Well, I can’t use a guitar, because a guitar drives the original. So I’ll go. I’ll sort of start electronic. I’ll go contemporary electronic, and we’ll see how that goes.’”
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Author: Al Denté
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