"Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" is a 1982 New Wave 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 to 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 40 on the U.S. Billboard charts in summer 1983. In South Africa, it was enormously popular, reaching the no. 8 position.
In a celebration of early electronic music, digital radio station BBC Radio 6 Music compiled a chart of its listeners' favourite synthesizer riffs in November 2006: "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)" came second, losing only to the Tubeway Army single "Are 'Friends' Electric?".
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Famous quotes containing the word wishing:
“Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement—they have only tried to be “men” and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.”
—Florence Nightingale (1820–1910)