Limahl

21/06/2025 6 min

Episode Synopsis

Actor and singer Limahl chooses ‘Move Over Darling’ by Doris Day and ‘Four Brothers’ by Manhattan Transfer.After a short spell as a punk rocker, Limahl found fame with the band Kajagoogoo after responding to an advert in a music magazine in 1982, where the then named Art Noveau were looking for a new lead singer.The following year he left the band – but quickly went onto find his own success as a solo artist with his hit “The Never Ending Story”. His early ambitions, growing up in Wigan, were for a career as an actor and he even toured in production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.Inherited: Move Over Darling by Doris Day
Passed on: Four Brothers by Manhattan TransferProducers: Catherine Powell and Anna BaileyFirst broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2025.

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