Limahl

Limahl is one of those artists where you only need to hear about two seconds of "The NeverEnding Story" before your whole childhood comes flooding back. Christopher Hamill — the name's an anagram of Limahl, which is exactly the kind of clever-quirky move you'd expect from an '80s pop star — came out of Wigan in northern England and fronted Kajagoogoo before striking gold as a solo act with that 1984 theme song. The track is genuinely magical: Giorgio Moroder's production, that soaring falsetto, synths dripping with fantasy and longing. It became one of the defining sounds of mid-'80s pop cinema. He never quite replicated that commercial peak, but honestly, one song that iconic is more than most artists ever get. There's something really endearing about how Limahl has leaned into the nostalgia circuit without irony — he clearly loves what he made, and so do the fans.

Name (English)

Limahl

Name (Japanese)

リマール

Reading

りまーる

Born

December 19, 1958 (age 67)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Dog

Origin

Wigan, United Kingdom

Occupation

singer / songwriter / actor / composer / pop singer

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://limahl.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/limahl_official/
• Xhttps://x.com/Limahl_Official
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB

Tags

• singer
• songwriter
• actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.