Watching the Wildlife

"Watching the Wildlife"
Single by Frankie Goes to Hollywood
from the album Liverpool
B-side"The Waves"
Released23 February 1987 (1987-02-23)[1]
Recorded1986
GenreBaroque pop
Length4:19
LabelZTT
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Stephen Lipson
Frankie Goes to Hollywood singles chronology
"Warriors of the Wasteland"
(1986)
"Watching the Wildlife"
(1987)
Music video
"Watching the Wildlife" on YouTube

"Watching the Wildlife" is the seventh and last single by English pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Released on 23 February 1987, it is the most radio friendly of the three singles from Liverpool going for a Beatlesque approach with string orchestration and psychedelic guitar riffs.

It is also the only one of the three Liverpool singles not to have a CD single release at that time and the mix used on the 7" vinyl single has never appeared on a UK-issued compact disc. The single only reached number 28 on the UK Singles Chart and #23 in Germany.

  1. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 38.