Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)



"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.[1]  The song exemplifies "synth-pop's spaced-out loneliness" and yearning for imagined absent lovers,[2]  and is noted for its Wall of Sound-styled layer of synthesizer padding--a "multi-layered, hypnotic song", according to AllMusic.[1]

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 40 on the U.S. Billboard charts in summer 1983.[3]  In South Africa, it was enormously popular, reaching the no. 8 position.[4] ==Chart positions[edit] ==