Wishful Thinking (China Crisis song)

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“Wishful Thinking”
Single by China Crisis
from the album Working with Fire & Steel: Possible Pop Songs - Volume 2
B-side "This Occupation"
Released 1983
Format 7", 12"
Recorded 1983
Genre New Wave
Length 4:08
Label Virgin
Writer(s) Gary Daly, Eddie Lundon
Producer Mike Howlett
China Crisis singles chronology
"Working with Fire & Steel"
(1983)
"Wishful Thinking"
(1983)
"Hanna Hanna"
(1984)

"Wishful Thinking" is a song by English pop group China Crisis, included on numerous "Best of" compilations as well as their 1983 album Working with Fire & Steel: Possible Pop Songs - Volume 2.

A bittersweet, reflective tale of a couple dealing with an unplanned pregnancy, it reached #9 in the UK charts in early 1984, their only top 10 hit single.