Wide Boy (song)

"Wide Boy"
Single by Nik Kershaw
from the album The Riddle
B-side
  • "Shame on You"
  • "So Quiet"
Released4 March 1985 (1985-03-04)[1]
Recorded1983–1984[2]
Genre
Length
  • 3:28 (album version)
  • 3:19 (single remix)
  • 5:07 (extended version)
LabelMCA
Songwriter(s)Nik Kershaw
Producer(s)Peter Collins
Nik Kershaw singles chronology
"The Riddle"
(1984) 		"Wide Boy"
(1985) 		"Don Quixote"
(1985)

"Wide Boy" is a song by the English singer-songwriter Nik Kershaw. It was his sixth consecutive top-20 single, peaking at No. 9 on the UK Singles Chart in 1985.[3] It was followed by "Don Quixote" which was to become the last of his string of top-20 singles on the UK chart. "Wide Boy" also charted highly in Ireland and Australia, peaking at No. 5 and No. 7, respectively.

A version of the song was originally recorded for Kershaw's debut studio album Human Racing, but was dropped before the album was released. It later appeared on Kershaw's next studio album The Riddle in partially re-recorded form.[4][2] He remarked that the song was "an old song, probably four or five years old" by that point.[2] The single was a remix of the album version.[5]

The accompanying music video was directed by graphic designer Storm Thorgerson.[6]

  1. ^ "News". Record Mirror. 23 February 1985. p. 4.
  2. ^ a b c Sinclair, Paul (2 March 2013). "Nik Kershaw talks 80s pop and Human Racing 28 years on". superdeluxeedition. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  3. ^ "www.nikkershaw.it". www.nikkershaw.it. 7 March 1985. Retrieved 26 June 2012.
  4. ^ Kershaw 2012, p. 14-15.
  5. ^ Discogs 7".
  6. ^ Mvdbase.com The Music Video DataBase