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Kimberley Charles Rew (born 3 December 1951) is an English rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was a member of Katrina and the Waves from 1981 to 1999 and of Robyn Hitchcock's Soft Boys from 1978 to 1981.
A prodigious songwriter, Kimberley Rew wrote Walking On Sunshine, the huge worldwide hit for Katrina And The Waves. He’s also responsible for their Eurovision winning song Love Shine A Light.
Kimberley Rew first came to notice in the late 1970s as a member of Robyn Hitchcock’s Soft Boys. In 1981 Rew made a solo single backed by American band the dBs before helping to form Katrina and the Waves, and writing 1985’s evergreen Walking on Sunshine (produced by Pat Collier and Scott Litt).
Kimberley Rew with Lee Cave-Berry, John Wright and Tony Hill singing a song from the 2010 album The Safest Place at John Wright’s Wednesday session at the Hopbine, Cambridge, England.
Kimberley Rew Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & Mo... | AllMusic. Stellar pop guitarist and songwriter, who followed stints in the Soft Boys and Katrina and the Waves with a prolific solo career. Read Full Biography. STREAM OR BUY: Active. 1980s - 2010s. Born. December 3, 1951 in Bristol, Avon, England. Genre. Pop/Rock. Styles.
9 set 2023 · As a guitarist and songwriter, Kimberley Rew has been an important and influential figure in new wave and alternative rock of the '70s and '80s, in the mainstream as well as in the underground.
9 ago 2022 · But on his second true solo album Great Central Revisited, the man who wrote Walkin’ On Sunshine and Going Down to Liverpool sounds more like somebody who used to be in Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds’ Rockpile. Grand Central Revisited finds Kimberley Rew taking a trip down memory lane to the glory days of pure pop for now people ...
