Wired for Sound (song)

"Wired for Sound"
Single by Cliff Richard
from the album Wired for Sound
B-side"Hold On"
Released17 August 1981[1]
RecordedMay–July 1981
GenrePop rock
Length3:37
LabelEMI
Songwriter(s)Alan Tarney, B.A. Robertson
Producer(s)Alan Tarney
Cliff Richard singles chronology
"A Little in Love"
(1981)
"Wired for Sound"
(1981)
"Daddy's Home"
(1981)
Music video
"Wired for Sound" on YouTube

"Wired for Sound" is a song recorded by English singer Cliff Richard, released in 1981 as the lead single for his album of the same name. The song reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart and was certified silver by the BPI for sales over 250,000.[2][3] The song reached number 2 in Australia and South Africa, and was a hit in a number of European countries. The song was written by Alan Tarney and B.A. Robertson.

A live version of the song was released in 1990 as an extra track on Richard's CD and 12" single of "From a Distance".

The music video was filmed at Milton Keynes Shopping Centre.[4]

  1. ^ "The Cliff Richard Song Databasewebsite: Discography - Singles". cliffrichardsongs.com. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference UKchart was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "UK certification Database". BPI. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  4. ^ "Shopping centre opened by Thatcher marks 40 years". BBC News. 25 September 2019.