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One of my favourite bands from the 80s, I never forget their concert in Akademija, one of the iconic underground clubs in Belgrade, during the 80s. My sister was, and she didn't want to take me with her because I was still young for that kind of club. I still love to listen to Classix Nouveaux

Ricky is extremely full of talent

Kim Wilde's debut is the second album I ever bought with my own money and I still think it sounds great. Ricky obviously had a gift for great production/musicianship/songwriting right off the bat! Really enjoyed this interview.

What a song. Should be universally known and celebrated.

Nice man! Just hit 1K views too! Just subbed keen to hear more!

Thank yall for this! L’Avenue is my current favorite music producer today. His sound is perfect for my 80s kid ears 🤟😎

Great Gentleman,Florida is so lucky!

Oh, shit! ❤

Thanks Gary, for the chat

Great!

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Ricky is an incredibly talented - and underrated - musician (not just a producer!). On Kim's Greatest Hits tour (2023), his guitar playing blew me away, and I find it very touching that he and his sister have worked together all their lives :)

Love this! New fan and subscriber here. As an 80s kid and musician, the L’Avenue project is…. I have no words….. accept that this music is has blessed me with some of the most powerful nostalgic experiences I’ve ever felt as I chase my childhood. Jesse, how have you managed to inject this EMOTION that I am so desperate to create myself?! Incredible. Thanks and God Bless! :)

Brilliant - thank you for this interview

love your song my friend. amazing performance.

such a voice, you are the greatest of all time ;-) next to STING.

Just watched a few Kenny videos, great catchy tunes, my question is....has rick suffered any long lasting damage from them mega tight pants?😁

I’m always looking to hear my favourites process so this just got me even more inspired 👌🏽

Nina you're incredible. You said you're into escapism, to far aways place etc. This is so reflected in you music, and the style you've chosen. It takes the listener to a far away place as well, and not to mention, to a bygone era where so much great music was made. Not only do you continue the tradtition, but you also evolve it and create something entirely of your own. 80s New Wave later developed into 90s House club music. But I can hear you're already take it in a different direction. It's like stepping into a different timeline where things develope differently. What kind of "90s" will your 80s evolve into? Maybe something completely different? Regardless, we await eagerly to hear what you do next.

Chris, that's so beautiful

L'Avenue is so good... gonna be honest, I had no idea but I didn't expect them to be one single British guy? '80-'90s tropical aesthetic (when I think about his aesthetic, I'm just reminded of LA or Miami), French name, doesn't scream British to me. Either way his latest album is fantastic. "Angela" and "Driftin'" have been stuck in my head for days.

Much to less views!!

L'Avenue is fantastic and extremely well crafted 80s soundscape synthwave nostalgia every time.

I remember working with Dave West years ago many years ago and and I was watching a wham vid and remembered Dave played bass with them and wondered what Dave was doing these days so did a search on here and found this. Good to see Dave is doing well. I remember jamming with him in the 80s

Sound just like your dad

Great interview - lots of valuable insights! Thank you :)

Ricky Wilde, probably the most underrated record PRODUCER in the UK. And one of the finest songwriters too. Not to mention all of his other skills and talents. What a really interesting interview. So glad Ricky mentioned the incredible Gary Numan.

and again ..such a beautiful song ..for all my lost persons ..thank you Chris x and in that moment my mummy is not really well ..I am afraid

Dave West I solute you sir! your playing on the song 'careless whispher' inspired millions to play groovey bass lines as solid as you did.

great :-)

Thanks for an interesting interview. I'd be up for a Kenny gig, saw, them twice back in the day.

i should of read the alburn and tape covers who was the musos in k wilde s band ..back in the eighties only 40 years to know this..im bass player myself.. yeah learn something new every day... good one rick your great guitarist and song wrighter.. ps,, love bass line for chequered love

Top show

Love Rick. Yes please online gig, Kenny, solo whatever.

Awesome family, I wish I could meet them all.

She has a picture of two women about to kiss in the background. Never seen her with a boyfriend. Is she gay? None of my business but just curious and wondering. Regardless, I still like her and especially her music very much!

Nina, yeah! We have so much in comonyet different persons..love from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 💕 🇩🇪

Are you SERIOUSLY pretending, Ricky, that the Hits tour is going to include things you've "never done" since recorded, cos I noticed enough singles not on the album anyway. DANCING IN DARK, HOUSE OF SALOME, SHE HASN'T GOT TIME FOR YOU, IF THERE WAS LOVE, CAN YOU HEAR IT, SAY YOU REALLY WANT ME, NEVER FELT SO ALIVE, EGO, SHANGRI-LA etc? Are we in the UK EVER going to really get anything (and for more than one show) that truly encapsulates your duel careers? Beyond the same old 6 songs you always do, and the tonnes of covers? I so want to go, but I fear that though this is a most comprehensive singles collection yet out soon (despite all the horrible edits over proper album ones), most of this will NEVER be performed. You and Kim really don't like most of your songs do you? CATCH in particular is an album DYING to be revisited! All this silliness Kim has about 'Dancing In The Dark' when its an awesome track way better than many things she compliments. Kim loves everything by everyone else, as if every song ever made was brill, apart from her own stuff, where she's so opposite. This Lee person, he's bringing up a lot of Kim songs, huh. Trust me, I do the same! I LOVE IT ALL and sing it always. Hell, I've sung every Kim song a million more times than she ever has! Everyone needs to get together and do a massive message to you to get a fully comprehensive live set going. It's a recurring tragedy of life that now you and Kim love live shows, the music is never really used to showcase it as only 10% of your stuff is ever touched-the same ones. Other artists so don't don't do this. Do you REALLY dislike so many of your songs? When you've both the best catalogue EVER?! But lovely to know you mention a new album you and Kim will do, as we all feared it likely "Here Come The Aliens" was the last and the Hits Tour was the swansong. Here, how about doing 'Rain On' for the first 'time' live, and how you've never done the awesome 'Dream Sequence.' live! CATCH is the most amazing album ever made, who else can do songs like HOUSE OF SALOME, SHOOT TO DISABLE, CAN YOU HEAR IT, BACK STREET JOE & DREAM SEQUENCE and put them on an album. Just cos something sells over something else or is ignored, DOESN'T mean it's right. Loads of things sell that are rubbish! If you find Lee amazing, trust me I'd bring up random tracks you've done to scorch your eyeballs, Rick. I just don't know why it's so hard to say these things and to play them live anyway. Don't real fans like almost everything. And surely a real love of music must mean you want variety and you and Kim have that more than anyone else spread over 4 amazing decades, yet no live show since the 90s really EVER hints at this. Acres and acres of songs just thrown on the scrap heap. Dispiriting. Oh and just one show without 'Kids' or at LEAST without it ALWAYS being the LAST ONE PLAYED like it's gold dust against horse manure! That'd be my Shangri-La-after 'Shangri-La''s played of course. And I heard Kim loves 'Stay Awhile'-well back in 1983! So WHY not insist on it a single or release it NOW and why NEVER do it. Wasting fast songs that don't fit 'chill out' sections of live shows when you've both plenty of ballads to fill them with. And then there's "Another Step" album, an album that showcased Kim's writing in full before "Close" yet the same 2 singles are only EVER done from it and NTOHING ELSE! I really can't understand how a love for music from both you and Kim culminates fully into you both loving everything every artist have ever done yet when it comes to your own fabulous back catalogue, it's the complete opposite. Only the extreme minimalist's version on every set will do. Just makes me feel you and Kim make music by accident or you do it cos you love it but once it's gone and out there, it's best forgotten, or that for ever 50 songs you do, only 1 can ever be enjoyed so much you'll keep returning to it. I'd just LOVE to give you a setlist and ensure it changes frequently, but even then, if you gigged every day from now on and doing these live shows chock full of stuff they ALWAYS should have, you'd still have not enough 'time' to cover everything more than twice. Oh and 'Dancing In The Dark' is fabulous, as is the video (which is also much better than some other videos) and still gobsmacked by Kim calling it "not a good song" or "not happy wasting time promoting it" when it's superior to many love stuff she did in the 90s, the soul stuff she likes and covers from all sorts of people, some of them not worthy at all, and bigging up all sorts of boybands, girl bands and other dreadful things from the following decades (even a few in the 80s). If she never recorded it, she'd like it surely! Oh and its promotion must have been the quickest hell ever as come March 1984, she's never "had" ro sing it again. And never will, clearly! If only that were true of 'Kids', talk about over-familiarity breathing utter contempt! It's the only Kim song I could do with peace from, and why you both want to keep drawing so much attention to it, is the biggest mystery you both have EVER come up with. Oh that and continually disregarding one of the best records in the world-CATCH AS CATCH CAN-and you made it! And who makes a song of such quality as SAIL ON & RAIN ON and vaults it away forever? And where's THAT'S THE MOOD I'M IN-Kim's fave song of 1986 yet never materialised except in a few interviews back then? What about other demos and when are all her other albums getting the deluxe treatment? So much to bring up, you'll wish WORDS FELL DOWN!!

OK Chris, you've got it right about Ricky being one of the most important men in music, but can we get a clue and stop rehashing old stats. Kim and him have had "20 hits" & "10 million albums sold". Well, what a wow! Stats that just don't move. Stats that have stayed the same for a million years now. When we keep hearing how everyone else is selling this that and the other a million times a minute, what-EVER! Where do these stats come from? What countries are left OUT of it? Has Kim NEVER sold a record since whenever these stats are supposedly taken? In any normal world, she'd be THE biggest selling artist EVER (as would he with the songwriting/mixing/producing/playing etc.) but never mind about that. Umm, Chris, music hasn't been terrible a few years ago, it's been TERRIBLE ever since the 80s ended! Ricky, wish you'd be asked about the "Catch" songs and the vast majority of the stuff you both made and demos that you never compliment, it's always about this 'Kids' song like nothing else matters! I sometimes feel you'd only have ever liked it if 'Kids In America' alone was on EVERY album 10x over! Exasperating. And to NEVER be able to avoid it at a concert, yet tonnes of other things are never played! It's high 'time' Rick was interviewed himself over his career, and thank God for this, but just wish he and his sister would revisit and revamp their shows to embody all the lovely things that have made up their excellent careers, most of these songs, if ever done, never have been since they were put on record!

Always loved your work Rick. Stay safe and well, Lx

Thank you Chris! Great interview. Been a massive fan of Kim and Ricky since the 80’s. Great to hear Ricky talk in depth about everything.

Mick Karn put out a single called Sensitive which I played to death and I'm sure Ricky's name is in the credits.

I know his brother Tony who's a completely brilliant guitarist and has depped in my band a few times.

Luv Nina and I buy all her music on Bandcamp! Great interview. Unfortunately, that show-your-vaccination-papers remark really disturbed me; we should not normalize this division.

That was a very interesting interview. Particularly enjoyed hearing the story behind the Wasp synthesizer as a friend of mine leant me one in 1979 and it looked and sounded amazing. I remember living in Germany during the early 70s and hearing one of Ricky's earlier upbeat singles on Radio Luxembourg and mistaking it at first for a Suzie Quattro record. Since he and I were of similar age it part inspired me to shelve the classical side of music, grades etc. and try and get going in the music industry.

Fascinating interview! Steve, you never cease to amaze me by how much you’ve done and who you have worked with!!🥂👏👏👏

Hi Chris.....really enjoyed this. Steve's remix of David Bowie's jump - they say is one of the most epic remixes i have ever heard......an incredibly talented man.

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Nina will always be Gorgeous 😍

Fascinating interview!