When a Heart Beats

"When a Heart Beats"
Single by Nik Kershaw
from the album Radio Musicola (CD and Cassette versions only)
B-side	"Wild Horses"
Released	18 November 1985 (1985-11-18)[1]
Genre	Pop rock new wave synth-pop
Length	4:30 (album version) 4:20 (single version) 6:21 (extended version)
Label	MCA
Songwriter(s)	Nik Kershaw
Producer(s)	Nik Kershaw
Nik Kershaw singles chronology
"Don Quixote" (1985) "When a Heart Beats" (1985) "Nobody Knows" (1986)

"When a Heart Beats" is a song by the English singer-songwriter Nik Kershaw, released as the lead single from his third studio album, Radio Musicola (1986)—although the song does not appear on the LP version of the album, only on the cassette and CD editions. Kershaw's eighth single overall, it features the track "Wild Horses"—which was originally included on his previous studio album, The Riddle (1984)—as its B-side.