With help from her 50s teen idol dad Marty and brother Ricky, Kim Wilde allied the best bits of New Wave, synth-pop and post-punk to forge a dynamic brand of pop that was all her own
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Discovered
by the one-man hit factory Mickie Most and guided by songwriter and 50s teen idol father Marty, Kim Wilde arrived on the music scene in 1981 with a considerable early rock and roll pedigree. But her self-titled debut album soon proved that she had little interest in being the female answer to Shakin’ Stevens.