Kiki Dee
Pauline Matthews (born 6 March 1947), better known by her stage name Kiki Dee, is an English singer. She was the first white, female, blue-eyed soul singer from the UK to sign with Motown's Tamla Records.
She is best known for her 1974 hit, entitled "I've Got the Music in Me", and also for her 1976 duet with Elton John entitled, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart", which went to Number 1 both in the UK Singles Chart and the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. In 1993 she performed another duet with Elton John for his Duets album, a cover version of Cole Porter's "True Love", which reached No. 2 in the UK. During her career, she has released 40 singles, three EPs and 12 albums.
Early life
Pauline Matthews was born in Little Horton, Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England.
Career
Musician
Kiki Dee began singing with a local band in Bradford in the early 1960s. Her recording career began as a session singer. She sang backing vocals for Dusty Springfield, among others, and was well regarded by other singers but did not achieve solo success in the UK for many years. In 1963 Dee released her first single "Early Night", and recorded her debut album I’m Kiki Dee, which included a series of Phil Spector style tracks and covers for Fontana Records. Her 1966 release "Why Don't I Run Away From You" (a cover of Tami Lynn's "I'm Gonna Run Away From You") was a big hit on Radio London and Radio Caroline, and she sang the B side "Small Town" in her appearance in Dateline Diamonds the same year. Her 1968 release "On a Magic Carpet Ride", which was originally a B-side, has remained popular with the Northern Soul circuit. Much of her early recorded work for Fontana Records was released on 24 January 2011, on the CD compilation I'm Kiki Dee.
Podcasts:
Kiki Dee
ALBUMS
- The Best of Kiki Dee released: 2009
- Cage the Songbird released: 2008
- Stay With Me released: 2008
- I've Got the Music in Me released: 2001
- Where Rivers Meet released: 1995
- The Very Best Of released: 1994
- Angel Eyes released: 1987
- Great Expectations released: 1970
- Kiki Dee released:
- Loving and Free released:
- Amoureuse released:
I've Got the Music in Me
Released 2001- Amoureuse
- Loving & Free
- Chicago
- I've Got the Music in Me
- (You Don't Know) How Glad I Am
- Step by Step
- Dark Side of Your Soul
- Why Don't I Run Away From You
- Runnin' Out of Fools
- Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing
- One Jump Ahead of the Storm
- First Thing in the Morning
- Talk to Me
- You Need Help
- You're Holding Me Too Tight
- One Step
- Can't Take My Eyes Off You
- Stay With Me, Baby
Angel Eyes
Released 1987- I Fall in Love Too Easily
- Stay Close to Me
- I'll Build a Tower Over You
- Pay
- We Cry On
- Angel Eyes
- Knowing You Like I Do
- Another Day Comes (Another Day Goes)
- Keep It to Yourself
- Good Times
- Africa
- Don't Cry
- Won't Make Sense
- Beyond Control
- I Fall in Love to Easily (extended mix)
- Another Day Comes (Another Day Goes) (Nightmare mix)
Great Expectations
Released 1970- The Day Will Come Between Sunday and Monday
- Johnny Raven
- Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing
- Jimmy
- I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You
- More Today Than Yesterday
- Love Makes the World Go Round
- You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
- Love Is a Warm Kind of Sorrow
- For Once in My Life
- My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me)
- I Second That Emotion
Amoureuse
- Amoureuse
- Loving and Free
- Chicago
- I Got the Music in Me
- (You Don't Know) How Glad I Am
- Step By Step
- Dark Side of Your Soul
- Why Don't I Run Away from You
- Runnin' Out of Fools
- Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing
- One Jump Ahead of the Storm
- First Thing in the Morning
- Talk to Me
- You Need Help
- You're Holding Me Too Tight
- One Step
- Can't Take My Eyes Off You
- Stay With Me, Baby
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Love Is Everything
by: Kiki DeeMaybe it was to learn how to love
Maybe it was to learn how to leave
Maybe it was for the games we played
Maybe it was to learn how to choose
Maybe it was to learn how to lose
Maybe it was for the love we made
Love is everything they said it would be
Love made sweet and sad the same
But love forgot to make me too blind to see
You're chickening out aren't you?
You're bangin' on the beach like an old tin drum
I can't wait 'til you make
The whole kingdom come
So I'm leaving
Maybe it was to learn how to fight
Maybe it was for the lesson in pride
Maybe it was the cowboys' ways
Maybe it was to learn not to lie
Maybe it was to learn how to cry
Maybe it was for the love we made
Love is everything they said it would be
Love did not hold back the reins
But love forgot to make me too blind to see
You're chickening out aren't you?
You're bangin' on the beach like an old tin drum
I can't wait 'til you make
The whole kingdom come
So I'm leaving
First he turns to you
Then he turns to her
So you try to hurt him back
But it breaks your body down
So you try to love bigger
Bigger still
But it...it's too late
So take a lesson from the strangeness you feel
And know you'll never be the same
And find it in your heart to kneel down and say
I gave my love didn't I?
And I gave it big...sometimes
And I gave it in my own sweet time