
“In those days, record companies built careers,” says Nik Kershaw when he’s reminded that his first single, I Won’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me, initially failed to break the Top 40.
“That’s just the start,” he told Virgin Radio host Andy Goldstein in a recent interview. “It got my name around and got me played on a few radio stations so when Wouldn’t It Be Good came out in January ‘84 it was all prepared for me.”