Perfect (Fairground Attraction song)

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"Perfect"
"Perfect" cover
Single by Fairground Attraction
from the album The First of a Million Kisses
Released 1988
Format CD single, Cassette single, 7" single, 12" single
Genre Pop
Length 4:50
Label RCA
Writer(s) Mark E. Nevin
Producer(s) Fairground Attraction
Chart positions
  • #80 (U.S.)
  • #1 (UK)

Perfect was Fairground Attraction's first single, released in 1988.

The single reached number one on the 9 May 1988 U.K. chart (where it stayed for one week, and stayed in the chart for a total of thirteen weeks). In the UK it was released as a 7" single, 12" single, cassette single, and CD single). The song was included on the band's first album, The First of a Million Kisses, later the same year. It was used in television advertising for ASDA in the late 1980s. It was re-released as a single in 1993 after it had reappeared on the compilation album Celtic Heart.

"Perfect" won the award for Best Single at the 1989 BRIT Awards.


[edit] Track-listings

[edit] Original release

  1. "Perfect"
  2. "Falling Backwards"
  3. "Mythology"
  4. "Mystery Train"

[edit] Celtic Heart release

  1. "Perfect"
  2. "Walking after Midnight"
  3. "You Send Me"
  4. "Captured" (Brian Kennedy solo track)

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Preceded by
"Theme from S'Express" by S'Express
UK number one single
May 8, 1988
Succeeded by
"With a Little Help from My Friends" by Wet Wet Wet