Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)


"Wishing " 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 ", largely a United States and Australian hit, "Wishing" performed strongly in the band’s home country the United Kingdom and reached the Top 10 of the UK Singles Chart; in the US it reached the Top 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the middle of 1983. It was popular in South Africa, reaching #8.

Formats

; 7" Jive 25 – 1982
; 12" Jive T25 – 1982
; 12" Jive VJ 12014 – 1982
; CD August Day 41 – 2019

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