Kajagoogoo

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Kajagoogoo is an English pop band best known for its first single, "Too Shy", which reached Number 1 in the UK and Number 5 in the U.S in 1983. The single was produced by keyboardist Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran and Colin Thurston who was, at this time, Duran Duran's in-house producer.

The band was founded in Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire in 1979 as a four piece avant-garde instrumental group called Art Nouveau, with Nick Beggs on bass guitar, Steve Askew on lead guitar, Stuart Neale on keyboards and Jez Strode on drums. Art Nouveau released a track called "The Fear Machine". The single sold a few hundred copies, and was played on the John Peel show, but the band could not get a record deal.

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New Wave Pop Rock Rock

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Kajagoogoo members

Members: Nick Beggs (bass guitar, background vocals), Steve Askew (guitar), Stuart Croxford Neale (keyboard), Jez Strode (drums (drum set)), Limahl (lead vocals)