King of Wishful Thinking

"King of Wishful Thinking"
Single by Go West
from the album Indian Summer and Pretty Woman soundtrack
Released	1990
Recorded	1989
Genre	Pop rock
Length	4:01
Label	Chrysalis, Capitol
Writer(s)	Peter Cox, Richard Drummie, Martin Page
Producer(s)	Ron Fair, Jon Gass, Go West, Peter Wolf
Go West singles chronology
"Let's Build a Boat" (1987) "King of Wishful Thinking" (1990) "Faithful" (1992)
Indian Summer track listing "What You Won't Do for Love" (5) "King of Wishful Thinking" (6) "The Sun and the Moon" (7) Pretty Woman soundtrack track listing "Fame '90" (2) "King of Wishful Thinking" (3) "Tangled" (4)

"King of Wishful Thinking" is a 1990 song by the British pop band Go West. It was featured in the film Pretty Woman and appeared on its soundtrack. It was later featured on Go West's fourth studio album, Indian Summer, in 1992.

The song was written by Peter Cox, Richard Drummie & Martin Page.

Chart positions

Peak positions Chart (1990-92) Peak position Australia[1] 6 New Zealand[1] 24 UK Singles Chart 18 US Adult Contemporary Chart[2] 7 US Billboard Hot 100[2] 8 Sweden[1] 20

End of year charts End of year chart (1990) Position Australia[3] 62 U.S. Billboard Hot 100[4] 70

Covers

• New Found Glory covered the song on their album From the Screen to Your Stereo Part II (2007).
• Australian musician Anthony Callea covered the song for his album Backbone (2016).

References

1. "Go West - King of Wishful Thinking (Song)". Australian-charts.com. Retrieved 3 July 2010.
2. "Go West - Billboard SIngles". Allmusic. Retrieved 3 July 2010.
3. "The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart 1990 (61–100) (from The ARIA Report No. 50)". Imgur.com (original document published by ARIA). Retrieved 10 October 2016.
4. "Billboard Top 100 - 1990". Retrieved 2009-09-15.

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics