The whole thing started from there.San Sebastián de los Reyes, Community of Madrid The collaboration with Nena was great, I loved the song and I wouldn't have wanted to miss doing promo together. I could never have imagined recording a new album. (laughs) She is the reason I'm sitting here. How was working with Nena? Here in Germany we were slightly surprised about it. Live there is nothing better: rock, guitars, I love it! I mean, why would a 45 year old Kim Wilde do the same pop version again? I prefer the rock sound. I wanted to go back to my beginnings, raw and direct and clear. Were there special influences or was it all part of the production process? When I heard the new single 'You came' in the new version, I was surprised about the guitars and the heavy bass line, somehow not very pop. It was a damned good time for musicians and the whole period influenced music history. The Punk period had ended, exploded and pop became more adult. A whole new generation grew up, a new energy. I was 20 years old, I travelled around the world, it was a lot of fun. When you look in the rear view mirror - how were the eighties for you? It took a lot of time and distance to discover something new in it. The song, this time and myself, we become ever more strangers. Somewhere I thought I would have to sing this damn song for the rest of my life. Every time I released a new album people would come up to me and say how much they liked 'Kids in America'. I carry a lot of the past around with me - most of all 'Kids in America'. OK, it is a comeback, but in many ways it is also a new start. Is it a classic comeback for you, or a brand new start? It was somehow liberating and very positive, this record is a big surprise for me - "Never say never". During the time I considered this I met my husband - the man I'd searched for my whole life. If I were to do this all the time, then I would be a permanently rolling stone. The endless writing, touring, promoting - I found out that I would never have a life of my own. I got married and thought that music was over for me. I went out of the music business 10 years ago and I was sure that was it. But it was a fitting title, because until recently even I didn't know that I would record this album. What moved you to record this album, named 'Never say never' - does it remind Sean Connery's film, or has it got nothing to do with that? First we wait a little for the lady, but what does it matter. And now, around 18 years later, I sit at Antenna Thuringia and chat with a good humoured, relaxed and still damned good looking Kim Wilde to chart about her new album, shopping and the market garden (one hardly believes it, but Kim wrote two books about gardening!). Next Saturday already, when everyone knew to hold a full-extent short lecture, while one pulled oneself the tennis sock over the pale little legs. Yes, I must have been around 14 years old, when my friend Vincent, who had blue eyes, entered the dressing room of a tennis hall one Saturday and declared to us fools that Sabrina was out, despite her two assets: Kim Wilde, spoke pop demagogue Böcking in his TV programme 'Formel 1', was now the best - and he was right.
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