White Feathers Explained

White Feathers
Type:studio
Artist:Kajagoogoo
Cover:Kajagoogoo White Feathers.jpg
Released:18 April 1983
Recorded:1982–1983
Studio:
Genre:New wave
Length:34:53 (original 1983 release)
73:12 (2004 CD reissue)
Label:EMI (UK)
EMI America (US)
Producer:
Next Title:Islands
Next Year:1984

White Feathers is the debut album by English new wave band Kajagoogoo, released on 18 April 1983 by EMI Records. The album contains their most successful single, "Too Shy", a UK No. 1 hit in February 1983, as well as two other UK Top 20 hits: "Ooh to Be Ah" and "Hang on Now". It is the band's only album with Limahl as the lead vocalist.

Background

White Feathers was produced by Nick Rhodes, of Duran Duran, and Colin Thurston, who was Duran Duran's producer at the time. The sole exception is the self-titled instrumental track "Kajagoogoo", produced by Tim Palmer and the band. This track song was featured as the opening title song in the 1984 John Hughes movie Sixteen Candles.

After the band was featured on the VH1 program Bands Reunited in 2003, renewed interest in Kajagoogoo prompted the band's original label EMI to re-issue White Feathers on CD in the UK for the first time in 2004 (although it had been available on CD in Japan and the U.S. since 1993). Originally containing 10 tracks, the 2004 version of the album contained eight bonus tracks, including four B-sides and four remixes, two of which are of "Too Shy" (both an extended and instrumental version).

Track listing

Personnel

Kajagoogoo

Technical

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1983)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[1] 53
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[2] 3
Japan (Oricon Weekly Western Albums)[3] 1

Year-end charts

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 163.
  2. Web site: Timo. 13 August 2015. Sisältää hitin: Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1960: Artistit K - KAR. 2020-07-24. Sisältää hitin.
  3. Web site: オリコンのデータ協力による "全曲、80年代の週間オリコンチャートNo.1" の洋楽コンピが登場! . A western compilation of "All weekly Oricon No. 1's of the 1980s" has arrived. Sony Music Entertainment Japan. . 23 January 2018 . 1 July 1983. ja.
  4. Web site: Top 100 Album-Jahrescharts. de. GfK Entertainment. 4 August 2021.