K.I.D. was a British musician and the 1980s

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musician best known for his SAM import and club hit "You Don't Like My Music (Hupendi Muziki Wangu?!)" that entered the '' Billboard''

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charts. The name is a

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used by Geoffrey Bastow.

Career

Bastow, who is also known as Geoff Bastow (20 May 1949 in

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, Germany), was a

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songwriter and

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.Geoff Bastow - Credits - Writing & Arrangement
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''. Retrieved 2011-08-23 In the early 1970s, Bastow recorded albums such as ''Music To Varnish Owls By'' (1975), ''Flavour Of The Month'' (1977) and ''The Video Age'' (1980) for various

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labels. Originally working as a guitarist and pianist in dance bands around Yorkshire, he moved to

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in the early 1970s, and then Munich in around 1976. He collaborated with disco/electronic innovator Giorgio Moroder around that era. He also toured with Engelbert Humperdinck's band as a guitarist. Aside from his main work as K.I.D., he has also worked as a session musician for

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acts such as

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(1981 album ''

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(1981 album ''

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''), Mick Jackson and

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. He wrote songs for artists including Elton John (song "Born Bad" from '' Victim of Love'') and Suzi Lane ("Harmony"). Bastow co-composed with Mick Jackson the Austrian entry for Eurovision Song Contest in 1985, entitled "Kinder dieser Welt" which was sung by Gary Lux. The song placed 8th among 19 songs. Bastow, as an electronic act called K.I.D. managed to get into the '' Billboard''

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charts in 1981. It entered the chart around September 1981, reaching No. 54 in 26 September, respectively. Around 14 November, it jumped to position No. 10. His brother Trevor (1945–2000) was also a noted London composer and session pianist. His younger brother Phil Bastow is also a musician. Bastow has had a number of his compositions used in notable video productions. Some of his music can be heard in the children's video series There Goes a... also known as Real Wheels hosted by

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and Richard Blade's Video One. For example, in the video ''There Goes a Fire Truck'', his songs "Current Advances 1", "Current Advances 3", "and Horizons 1" are used as background music. "Daytime Drama" was used in the ''

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'' episode "Dumped". Posthumously, some of his

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has appeared in '' Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule'', an

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. Geoffrey Bastow also contributed Lyrics for 'We Need Protection’, which was a song composed by Edwin Hind and Eckhart Debusmann techno-funk band ‘Picnic At The Whitehouse’ (CBS RECORDS/Portrait 1985 – 1990. This Record is still referred as one of the most Important songs of the eighties. Bastow died in Berlin, Germany on 16 March 2007, at the age of 57.

Discography

Albums as K.I.D.

Albums as Geoff Bastow (Incomplete)

Singles as K.I.D.

References

British boogie musicians British songwriters SAM Records artists British Hi-NRG musicians Eurodisco musicians British Italo disco musicians British expatriates in Germany Musicians from Yorkshire 1949 births 2007 deaths {{Authority control