Limahl is an English pop singer who, after fronting the band Kajagoogoo, scored one shimmering solo hit that has outlasted everything else he made. "Never Ending Story", the theme to the 1984 fantasy film, was produced by Giorgio Moroder and built on a soaring, synth-drenched chorus, and it became an international hit and a permanent fixture of 80s nostalgia.
Limahl had other moments, both with Kajagoogoo and on his own, but to the wider world he is defined entirely by that one glittering film theme.
On streaming, "Never Ending Story" sits near 195 million plays, and several of his other top entries are alternate mixes of the same song. His next distinct track trails far behind. That sends the ratio above 11, far past our 5.0 line.
By our measure Limahl is a certified one-hit wonder as a solo artist, with the caveat that he also had band success earlier with Kajagoogoo. Under his own name, though, the numbers are clear: one euphoric, Moroder-produced film theme has stood far ahead of everything else, a song so tied to its movie that the two are now inseparable in listeners' memories.