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Kim Wilde begins a love affair with America

Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 13 May 1982

KIM WILDE the English singer of the massive European hit single 'Kids in America', had been in America two days. "You've got it terribly easy over here," Wilde says, running wild with first impressions while on the phone from New York. "You've got a great life and there's an awful lot for young people to do — and I envy that. I think the youth here have a lot going for them and there's a hell of a lot of opportunity."

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