Kim Wilde studies her classic hit Kids In America before hitting the road to ensure she delivers a performance fans are expecting.

The pop singer, who holds the record for being the most-charted British female solo act of the ’80s, tells Metro that, in her live show, she’s determined to replicate the record she made almost 40 years ago.

“I do listen to it before I go on tour, every single time,” she explains. “Because actually, what happens is when you sing a song a lot, many, many times over the years, you can forget to sing it the way that the public remember it.

“The public fell in love with that song from the way it sounded on that great record. And then, because you sing it 1000 times, maybe you just drop a note here, or just ad-lib a note there, and that’s not what the public want to hear.

“They want to hear exactly the way it sounded back in 1981 so I always listen to Kids In America before I go on tour to make sure I’m doing an exact rendition, as close as I can, so that the public get the song that they went out and bought, in their many, many thousands, back in 1981,” Kim shares.

Today, the star, who, along with dad Marty has partnered with National Album Day, remains one of the most popular acts of the decade, and she insists there’s nothing she’d change, despite beginning her career at the age of just 20

“I had such an incredible start,” she reflects. “You know, I was so grateful to be in the charts. I was so astonished to find myself on Top of the Pops. I couldn’t believe it when I was on the front cover of Smash Hits.

“So all of these things were just incredible. I was only 20 years old, that whole thing was really rather like a fairy tale… I wouldn’t change a single thing.”