Limahl has expressed a need for his festive monitor to develop into a success West Finish or Broadway manufacturing.
One Want for Christmas – initially launched as London for Christmas in 2012, and later retitled in 2020 – yearns for togetherness and shared experiences in the course of the holidays with a particular somebody.
The pop legend, 67, retains working the romantic tune – which follows a pair on a metropolis break in London – so it will get picked up and tailored right into a profitable display screen or stage manufacturing.
Requested why One Want for Christmas has been re-released for 2025, Limahl solely defined to BANG Showbiz: “Nicely, the track is on the perimeter, that means it’s not within the West Finish but.
“In order that’s the place my monitor, One Want for Christmas, is in the meanwhile. It’s off Broadway, it’s on the perimeter.
“And what I’m attempting to do is get it into the West Finish or on Broadway. So I’m an impartial artist, releasing digitally, as a result of the expertise permits us to try this.
“And each Christmas, I preserve nudging my monitor. The video views are heading to 100,000, and the streams are going up.
“And I hope, finally, someday, it should fall on the suitable ears and simply get its break, which is de facto what each venture wants.”
He desires One Want for Christmas to take off like 36-year-old actor-and-comedian Richard Gadd’s Child Reindeer – the 2024 award-winning Netflix miniseries that displays Richard’s real-life stalking ordeal, which started as a one-man present in 2019.
Limahl continued: “To place that in perspective, Child Reindeer began on the Edinburgh Fringe Pageant and, in fact, in some way on its journey, it bought picked up by Netflix.
“I imply, creatively, in some unspecified time in the future, it’s important to let go. You hear stuff you’ve labored on, and also you suppose, ‘Mm, mm, mm.’
“However I’m fairly pleased with the way it sounds, however there can at all times be different interpretations, and that does curiosity me.
“It’s troublesome, however we’ll see.”
The star – who shot to fame with pop band Kajagoogoo within the Eighties – admitted One Want for Christmas, which he wrote with Jon Nickoll and Ian Curnow, was not a simple track to pen.
Limahl – who, with the duo, tweaked the lyrics to London for Christmas, and injected new emotional and orchestral components into the brand new model – defined: “I jokingly mentioned I at all times wished to jot down a Christmas track.
“And Jon and I each agreed, laughing, that’s an inconceivable process as a result of everyone’s already sung about sleigh bells and Santa.
“However as soon as we determined that we may place our couple on a metropolis break in London, the town I spent 50 years dwelling in, the town I nonetheless love.
“As Dr. Samuel Johnson, the nice literary legend, as soon as mentioned, ‘The person who’s bored with London is bored with life.’ And that’s type of how I really feel.
“London is nearly just like the equal of the Massive Apple [ New York], the town that by no means sleeps, in that respect.”
And The NeverEnding Story hitmaker hails One Want for Christmas – which name-checks landmarks, together with the London Eye, Massive Ben, and Trafalgar Sq. – as his love letter to London.
Limahl mentioned: “It was enjoyable name-checking all these locations that I like, that I visited, which can be actual to me. London as a vacation spot metropolis for the world, I feel lots of people will relate to that.”
Limahl’s new Christmas single, One Want for Christmas, is out now by way of Christopher Music. Extra data and hyperlinks at ffm.to/onewishforchristmas, and limahl.com.
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