Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)
| "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" | ||||
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| Single by A Flock of Seagulls | ||||
| from the album Listen | ||||
| B-side | "Committed" | |||
| Released | 16 November 1982 | |||
| Format | 7", 12" | |||
| Recorded | 1982 | |||
| Genre | New wave, synthpop | |||
| Length | 4:09 (7" version) 5:29 (Album version) 9:34 (Extended version) |
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| Label | Zomba Records | |||
| Writer(s) | Mike Score, Ali Score, Frank Maudsley and Paul Reynolds. | |||
| Producer(s) | Mike Howlett | |||
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"Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" is a 1982 song by A Flock of Seagulls, the opening song and only hit single from their second album Listen. The song exemplifies "synth-pop's spaced-out loneliness" and yearning for imagined absent lovers, and is noted for its Wall of Sound-styled layer of synthesizer padding – a "multi-layered, hypnotic song", according to AllMusic.
Unlike the band's 1982 hit "I Ran (So Far Away)", largely a United States and Australian hit, "Wishing" performed strongly in Great Britain and reached the Top 10; in the US it reached the top 30 on the U.S. Billboard charts in summer 1983. In South Africa, it was enormously popular, reaching the no. 8 position.
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