Gone to the Moon
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Gone to the Moon is an album
Album
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 by British
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 pop rock / new wave band Kajagoogoo
Kajagoogoo
Kajagoogoo are a British pop band, best known for their hit single, "Too Shy", which reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 5 on the U.S...

. It was recorded in 2007 and early 2008, by the Kaja
Kajagoogoo
Kajagoogoo are a British pop band, best known for their hit single, "Too Shy", which reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 5 on the U.S...

 trio
Trio (music)
Trio is generally used in any of the following ways:* A group of three musicians playing the same or different musical instrument.* The performance of a piece of music by three people.* The contrasting section of a piece in ternary form...

 shortly before the original band was officially reunited. The tour for the album featured the entire original band. The album was downloadable on Mp3
MP3
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 format for free until February 2009 and released shortly after on CD-R.

History Behind the Album

The Kaja
Kajagoogoo
Kajagoogoo are a British pop band, best known for their hit single, "Too Shy", which reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 5 on the U.S...

 trio
Trio (music)
Trio is generally used in any of the following ways:* A group of three musicians playing the same or different musical instrument.* The performance of a piece of music by three people.* The contrasting section of a piece in ternary form...

 is formed by bass player
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

 and vocalist Nick Beggs
Nick Beggs
Nick Beggs is a British musician, noted for playing the bass guitar and the Chapman Stick; he is a member of Kajagoogoo and formerly Iona and Ellis, Beggs, & Howard.-Personal life:...

, guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

ist Steve Askew
Steve Askew
Steve Askew was born on December 9, 1957 in Middlesex.Later he moved with his family to Leighton Buzzard in 1962/63 and attended Beaudesert primary school, Pulford junior school and Brooklands School....

 and keyboard player Stuart Croxford Neale. The album was recorded before the other two members of the original five-piece band rejoined the group: lead singer Limahl
Limahl
Christopher Hamill better known by his stage name Limahl is an English pop singer. He rose to fame as the lead singer of the 1980s pop group Kajagoogoo, before embarking on a briefly successful solo career, which reached its peak with the 1984 hit "The NeverEnding Story", taken from the film of...

 and drummer
Drummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...

 Jez Strode
Jez Strode
Jeremy "Jez" Strode is best known as the drummer for the British pop band, Kajagoogoo.Strode began his musical career in a band called Art Nouveau, with future Kajagoogoo bandmates Nick Beggs, Steve Askew and Stuart Croxford Neale....

, who made the Kajagoogoo reunion possible in early 2008, exactly 25 years after the release of the only one long playing ever realized together, 1983 White Feathers
White Feathers
White Feathers is the debut album by British New Romantic band Kajagoogoo, released in spring 1983. It was produced by Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran and Colin Thurston, who was Duran Duran's producer at the time, except for track #5, the self-titled "Kajagoogoo", an instrumental , which was produced...

, which produced, moreover, the UK
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 and international Number 1 single
Single (music)
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 "Too Shy", which became one of the classics of the Eighties
1980s
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. Following Strode's departure in 1984, the band used drum machine
Drum machine
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s in the studio
Recording studio
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 and session musicians for live
Live Music
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 concert
Concert
A concert is a live performance before an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band...

s. After repeated changes in the line-up, the 5 original Kajagoogoo came to a first major turning point in 2003, in a live concert, then broadcast by U.S. TV channel
Television
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 VH1
VH1
VH1 or Vh1 is an American cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting's short-lived Cable Music Channel, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slightly...

 in 2004, within the famous Bands Reunited
Bands Reunited
Bands Reunited is a television program produced by VH1 in 2004. Hosted by Aamer Haleem, the show documented the attempted reuniting of a formerly popular musical ensemble for a special concert in either London or Los Angeles....

series, which put back together several groups of the time, which had split up years before by then. After a previous failed try in 1998, the British
United Kingdom
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 band has definitively reunited for a joint photo shoot
Photography
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, in February, and, officially, in order to sign up the brand new contract, in April 2008.

Before this hugely waited for event (requests towards which never failed, during the years, from both fans and critics), the post-VH1 period has witnessed an early reunion of the 3 members that, in 1985, formed the Kaja trio
Trio (music)
Trio is generally used in any of the following ways:* A group of three musicians playing the same or different musical instrument.* The performance of a piece of music by three people.* The contrasting section of a piece in ternary form...

 of then last (now latest) studio album
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 Crazy Peoples Right to Speak
Crazy Peoples Right to Speak
Crazy Peoples Right to Speak was released in 1985 and was the third album by new wave/pop rock band Kajagoogoo. For this release, the band had shortened its name to Kaja, a name the band used earlier for the U.S. release of their second album, Islands...

and of single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 "Shouldn't Do That", i.e. Beggs, Askew & Neale. In 2007, in reduced line-up, but with complete name Kajagoogoo, the trio
Trio (music)
Trio is generally used in any of the following ways:* A group of three musicians playing the same or different musical instrument.* The performance of a piece of music by three people.* The contrasting section of a piece in ternary form...

 successfully participated in Retrofest
Retrofest
The Retrofest Music Festival created & promoted by Bradley Snelling, was the UK's first 80s themed music festival. Held on September 1 and September 2, 2007 the event was headlined by The Human League, Tony Hadley, Kim Wilde, ABC & Belinda Carlisle...

, a festival
Festival
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 which was opened by themselves in the morning, soon realizing the brand new song "Tears", an easy listening track, already included in a compilation
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 of Eighties
1980s
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 tunes, and also featuring on the new album, along with a brand new single, "Rocket Boy", heavily oriented to rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 moods and sound, accompanied by an exhilarating videoclip, shot by Nick only, with a Webcam
Webcam
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, in front of his computer
Computer
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, singing the song in a hairbrush instead of a real mic! The track was hailed by critics as a smash song. Critics, as well as fans, have always appreciated Kajagoogoo's original music, though the band was accused at the time of being a satellite group of Duran Duran
Duran Duran
Duran Duran are an English band, formed in Birmingham in 1978. They were one of the most successful bands of the 1980s and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States...

, for a number of reasons which never went further than a formal comparison: Nick Rhodes
Nick Rhodes
Nick Rhodes is an English musician, is best known as the keyboardist of the pop rock band Duran Duran...

's production, their look, the early title of "Too Shy" - originally entitled "Shy Shy", which, in many's opinions, would recall the name of the band from Birmingham
Birmingham
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 - and so on.

The record

The drummer
Drummer
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 for the latest album is Jonathan Atkinson
Jonathan Atkinson
Jonathan David Atkinson was an English footballer who played as a midfielder for Darlington in The Football League.-External links:...

 (who also plays in the Kim Wilde
Kim Wilde
Kim Wilde is an English pop singer, author and television presenter who burst onto the music scene in 1981 with the number 2 UK Singles Chart new wave classic "Kids in America". In 1987 she had a major hit in the United States when her version of The Supremes' classic "You Keep Me Hangin' On"...

 band, and he is also soon to appear in the Electronic Band for Howard Jones
Howard Jones (musician)
Howard Jones is a musician, singer and songwriter. According to the Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums, "Jones is an accomplished singer-songwriter who was a regular chart visitor in the mid 1980s with his brand of synthpop. Jones, who was equally popular in the U.S., appeared at Live...

), though he does not play on all 12 tracks. The album also features a couple of instrumental
Instrumental
An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or singing, although it might include some non-articulate vocal input; the music is primarily or exclusively produced by musical instruments....

 tracks, a constant tradition throughout Kajagoogoo works, as well as Beggs playing his chapman stick
Chapman Stick
The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and has been used on music recordings to play bass lines, melody lines, chords or textures...

 (peculiar instrument
Musical instrument
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 he made a whole solo album
Solo album
A solo album, in popular music, is an album headlined by a current or former member of a band. A solo album may feature simply one person performing all instruments, but typically features the work of other collaborators; rather, it may be made with different collaborators than the artist is...

 with) on "Springs Eternal Dance", and also keyboards, a less unusual instrument for him, while the only guest musician is Anna Conti, who plays flute
Flute
The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...

 on "The Last Day". On "Rocket Boy" (closing track and first and only single so far), Nick and Steve experiment an interesting role exchange, as for their respective main instrument: besides lead vocals and keyboard again, Beggs actually plays guitar
Guitar
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, while Askew deals with basslines
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

. Other peculiarities include the piano
Piano
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 played by Stuart Neale on "Moon in Motion": on this and all other tracks (except for the mentioned solo performance by Nick on "Springs Eternal Dance", with his chapman stick, and "Excerpt from the Falling Man", another solo instrumental, this time performed by Steve), Neale plays keyboards and deals with programming.

Though the complete credits of the new work were only recently included on their forum, the titles of the 12 tracks were already available, a long time before the possibility to download the complete record for free, on the official album page, within the newly reformed group's Website, under the beautiful cover art
Cover art
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, the front sleeve image of which was wholly realized with the computer, picturing two children vaguely resembling two alien
Extraterrestrial life in popular culture
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s, with breathing helmets, playing with water-shooting guns, partially hidden in the tall green grass of a meadow, underneath a violet flying saucer
Flying saucer
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, hanging in midair, before a peaceful night sky full of stars.

The fact that the record, in fact ready to be marketed in CD format
Compact Disc
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, was put on hold just before release, due to the quick and unexpected reunion of the original five-piece band, makes it undoubtedly clear about the latter's sound health, especially thanks to their new manager
Talent manager
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, Bradley Snelling (the Retrofest
Retrofest
The Retrofest Music Festival created & promoted by Bradley Snelling, was the UK's first 80s themed music festival. Held on September 1 and September 2, 2007 the event was headlined by The Human League, Tony Hadley, Kim Wilde, ABC & Belinda Carlisle...

 organizer, by the way), who thus preferred avoiding the circulation of false rumours concerning supposed breaches within the band, whereas, as it were, the old issues which, for years, have opposed the three Kaja members, on one side, to Limahl and Jez, on the other side, are definitely history (as a matter of fact, the first split all began with then manager of the band, previously the group's roadie, who suggested that Limahl left and that the remaining four continued without him, with Nick Beggs, who already wrote many of the lyrics and did the main background vocals, taking on the lead vocals).

Promotion

While the five guys, more than grown up by now ("but we all still have our teeth and hair, which is wonderful", said Limahl on the official site of the band and on his own solo site), after some 25 years, are now working recording a new studio long playing work all together, the date of their first live concert is getting closer. The first concert should have actually taken place in Bratislava
Bratislava
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, in the Slovak Republic, on May 23, 2008, but shortly before the event, for reasons neither the group members nor their manager were liable for, the concert was cancelled (and then the whole festival also was), so the actual first live date has become the one which was scheduled as the second date, i.e. June 14, at Esbjerg
Esbjerg
Esbjerg Municipality is a municipality in Region of Southern Denmark on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in southwest Denmark. Its mayor is Johnny Søtrup, from the Venstre political party...

 Rock Festival, in Denmark
Denmark
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, followed by the one on August 30, again at Retrofest
Retrofest
The Retrofest Music Festival created & promoted by Bradley Snelling, was the UK's first 80s themed music festival. Held on September 1 and September 2, 2007 the event was headlined by The Human League, Tony Hadley, Kim Wilde, ABC & Belinda Carlisle...

, in Scotland
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, this time with the complete line-up. Obviously, besides the hit singles of the group and, maybe, some new tracks, the new album songs will also be presented, including those on the latest 2007 single, i.e. "Rocket Boy" and "Tears", which were already composed by the Kaja trio, a fact which cannot but witness the renewed harmony of the five-piece band.

Track listing

Music
Music
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 and lyrics
Lyrics
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 by: Nick Beggs
Nick Beggs
Nick Beggs is a British musician, noted for playing the bass guitar and the Chapman Stick; he is a member of Kajagoogoo and formerly Iona and Ellis, Beggs, & Howard.-Personal life:...

/Stuart Neale/Steve Askew
Steve Askew
Steve Askew was born on December 9, 1957 in Middlesex.Later he moved with his family to Leighton Buzzard in 1962/63 and attended Beaudesert primary school, Pulford junior school and Brooklands School....

. Recorded before Limahl
Limahl
Christopher Hamill better known by his stage name Limahl is an English pop singer. He rose to fame as the lead singer of the 1980s pop group Kajagoogoo, before embarking on a briefly successful solo career, which reached its peak with the 1984 hit "The NeverEnding Story", taken from the film of...

 and Jez Strode
Jez Strode
Jeremy "Jez" Strode is best known as the drummer for the British pop band, Kajagoogoo.Strode began his musical career in a band called Art Nouveau, with future Kajagoogoo bandmates Nick Beggs, Steve Askew and Stuart Croxford Neale....

 rejoined the band.
  1. "Gone to the Moon" - 5:32
  2. "Smile" - 4:00
  3. "Tracy" - 5:19
  4. "Moon in Motion" - 1:45 [instrumental]
  5. "First Girl on Mars" - 4:39
  6. "Tears" - 4:11
  7. "The Last Day" - 5:31
  8. "Excerpts from the Falling Man" - 1:23 [instrumental]
  9. "Table for One" - 4:35
  10. "Nighingales" - 4:16
  11. "Spring's Eternal Dance" - 1:33 [instrumental]
  12. "Rocket Boy" - 4:20

"Gone to the Moon"

  • Nick Beggs
    Nick Beggs
    Nick Beggs is a British musician, noted for playing the bass guitar and the Chapman Stick; he is a member of Kajagoogoo and formerly Iona and Ellis, Beggs, & Howard.-Personal life:...

     - vocals
    Singing
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    , bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , tambourine
    Tambourine
    The tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....

    , programming
  • Steve Askew
    Steve Askew
    Steve Askew was born on December 9, 1957 in Middlesex.Later he moved with his family to Leighton Buzzard in 1962/63 and attended Beaudesert primary school, Pulford junior school and Brooklands School....

     - acoustic guitar
    Acoustic guitar
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    , electric guitar
    Electric guitar
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    , programming
  • Stuart Croxford Neale - keyboards, programming

"Smile"

  • Steve: guitars, programming
  • Nick: vocals, bass, programming
  • Stuart: keyboards, programming

"Tracy"

  • Steve: guitars, drum programming
  • Nick: vocals, bass, programming
  • Stuart: keyboards, programming
  • Jonathan Atkinson
    Jonathan Atkinson
    Jonathan David Atkinson was an English footballer who played as a midfielder for Darlington in The Football League.-External links:...

    : drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....


"First Girl on Mars"

  • Steve: guitars, drum programming
  • Nick: vocals, bass, programming, telephone
    Telephone
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  • Stuart: keyboards, programming
  • Jonathan Atkinson: drums

"Tears"

  • Steve: guitars, programming
  • Nick: vocals, bass, guitars, keyboards, programming
  • Stuart: keyboards, programming

"The Last Day"

  • Steve: guitars, programming
  • Nick: vocals, bass, guitar, programming
  • Stuart: keyboards, programming
  • Jonathan Atkinson: drums
  • Anna Conti: flute
    Flute
    The flute is a musical instrument of the woodwind family. Unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening...


"Table for One"

  • Steve: guitars
  • Nick: vocals, bass, programming
  • Stuart: keyboards, programming

"Nightingales"

  • Steve: acoustic and electric guitars, bass, programming
  • Nick: vocals, whistling
  • Stuart: keyboards, programming

"Rocket Boy"

  • Steve: guitars, bass, drum programming
  • Nick: vocals, guitars, keyboards, programming
  • Stuart: keyboards, programming

Staff and production

  • Mark Downie: production
    Record producer
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    , mixing
    Audio mixing (recorded music)
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    , and mastering
  • Kajagoogoo
    Kajagoogoo
    Kajagoogoo are a British pop band, best known for their hit single, "Too Shy", which reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 5 on the U.S...

    : production and mixing on "Gone to the Moon" title track, "Tears" and "Rocket Boy"
  • Ettienne, Andreas Horvath
    Andreas Horvath
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    , Atoman: album
    Album
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     artwork
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    Kajagoogoo
    Kajagoogoo are a British pop band, best known for their hit single, "Too Shy", which reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 5 on the U.S...

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