Artist
Limahl
Limahl is a pop artist from Wigan, Lancashire formed in 1982. 11 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Pop · Wigan, Lancashire · Best pop albums
- 11
- Releases
- 1984–2020
- Active years
- 1982
- Formed
Artist
Limahl is a pop artist from Wigan, Lancashire formed in 1982. 11 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Pop · Wigan, Lancashire · Best pop albums
Most popular
Never Ending Story
2002
Christopher Hamill, better known by his stage name Limahl, is an English pop singer. He rose to fame as the lead singer of the 1980s pop group Kajagoogoo, before embarking on a briefly successful solo career, which reached its peak with the 1984 hit "The NeverEnding Story", the theme song for the film of the same name. Hamill was born in Pemberton, Wigan, a town in Greater Manchester in the north west of England. He attended Abraham Guest High School, in Wigan, and worked in a hair salon in Bolton before eventually enrolling at the Westcliff-on-Sea Palace Theatre Repertory Company. With aspirations to be an actor, Hamill toured with the company in a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. In 1980, he was given a small role in an episode of the ITV police series The Gentle Touch playing a schoolboy. In 1981, Hamill appeared as an extra in the promotional video for Adam and the Ants' number one UK single "Stand and Deliver". Although his acting career never really took off, Hamill also had a keen interest in music, forming a short-lived punk band called Vox Deus. Next he joined Crossword, but after a brief period left them to form Brooks with Mike Nolan. He adop…
