I'll never forget where I was, the day I came up with the name.  Doing the rounds as a dustman in my home town Leighton Buzzard! The band was known as "Art Nouveau"  in those days, a name not much better, but much less original.  After all, Classics Nouveaux already existed and I wanted the band to have a name that didn't mean anything. Boy did I succeed. 

Eventually, after many permutations and the end of a long morning collecting rubbish, I arrived at KAJAGOOGOO. 

My final thoughts were:- 

"If you can market a band called Kajagoogoo, you can market anything". 

Well, it's twenty years since our first hits and I'm still getting royalty cheques. So if you were one of those who hated us so bad you would have killed us on sight, I cried all the way to the bank!

Since the creation of this site I've had many e-mails inquiring into old Kagagoogoo material. Well finally I've decided to make available "Kajagoogoo live in Tokyo 1984."

This is actually a great CD featuring Steve Askew, Stuart Neale , Jez Strode and myself live in concert with no overdubs or touch ups. The CD contains 15 tracks from the first two LPs and was recorded from a live broadcast on Japanese radio. If you are interested in this CD please contact: information@nickbeggs.co.uk  

The question I get asked most of all (apart from how many beads did you have in your hair and what do you wear under the kilt?) is, "What happened to the other band members?"  Well:

After tracing his family tree back to Greece, Jez decided to open up a chain of highly successful kebab shops under the name "Kaja Humushums"

was involved in a near fatal piano tuning accident at a Motor Head sound check when he happened to play Too Shy. What a mistake to make!

Took a job at the Jet Propulsion labs in Pasadena working on a theory he's held for a long time.  That is, "all matter can be converted into methane once he ingests it.