As she hits the road on a new nationwide tour, no one is more surprised than Kim Wilde that fans in their thousands are queuing up to buy tickets to see her, 40 years after her heyday.
In the 1980s she was the most-charted female solo act of the decade. Boys lusted after her, girls wanted to look like her and her career-defining anthem Kids in America sold more than half a million copies in the UK alone.
But fast-forward four decades and Kim admits she was not sure anyone would be interested in hearing her sing again, now she is in her 60s.
