One Step Ahead (Nik Kershaw song)

"One Step Ahead"
Single by Nik Kershaw
from the album The Works
B-side"When I Grow Up"
Released23 January 1989 (1989-01-23)[1]
GenrePop rock
Length
  • 3:53 (album version)
  • 3:38 (single version)
  • 8:14 (extended version)
LabelMCA
Songwriter(s)Nik Kershaw
Producer(s)
Nik Kershaw singles chronology
"James Cagney"
(1987)
"One Step Ahead"
(1989)
"Elisabeth's Eyes"
(1989)
Music video
"One Step Ahead" on YouTube

"One Step Ahead" is a song by English singer-songwriter Nik Kershaw, released on 23 January 1989 as the lead single from his fourth studio album The Works (1989). It was written by Kershaw, and produced by Kershaw and Julian Mendelsohn. A music video was filmed to promote the single,[2] and Kershaw also performed it on the Dutch TV show POP Formule.

"One Step Ahead" reached No. 55 in the UK and remained in the charts for two weeks. It would be Kershaw's last appearance on the UK singles chart until 1999's "Somebody Loves You".[3]

  1. ^ Strymowicz, Anita (28 January 1989). "A&R Talent: Growing up in public" (PDF). Music Week. p. 20 – via World Radio History.
  2. ^ "Nik Kershaw - "One step ahead"". mvdbase.com. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  3. ^ "NIK KERSHAW | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. Retrieved 6 April 2019.