King of Wishful Thinking': Go West’s Accidental Hit From the Pretty Woman Soundtrack

Coming up next, an interview with one of the most underrated singers of his time… Peter Cox of the band Go West. He fronted Go West since the 80s and this duo killed it on the other side of the Atlantic while making some inroads here in the States with their 1985 hit We Close Our Eyes. But then at the turn of the decade, they blew up the charts with a heart-wrenching vocal performance on a song that came from the biggest movie of that year 1990. The song was King of Wishful Thinking for the Pretty Woman soundtrack and to think that the song title came from a random comment they heard at a bar! The second he wrote the song, I mean the moment Cox put his pen down he knew it would be a smash hit. Then they immediately had another huge hit and then they never touched the charts again. This is one you gotta see.

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