Wonderful Life (Black song)

"Wonderful Life"
Single by Black
from the album Wonderful Life
B-side"Life Calls"
ReleasedSeptember 1986[1]
14 August 1987 (re-release)[2]
StudioPowerplant Studios, Willesden, London
GenrePop
Length4:49
Label
Songwriter(s)Colin Vearncombe
Producer(s)Dave "Dix" Dickie
Black singles chronology
"More Than the Sun"
(1984)
"Wonderful Life"
(1987)
"Everything's Coming Up Roses"
(1986)

"Sweetest Smile"
(1987)

"Wonderful Life"
(1987)

"I'm Not Afraid"
(1987)
Music video
Black - Wonderful Life (Official Video) on YouTube

"Wonderful Life" is a song by British singer Black from his 1987 debut album, Wonderful Life. The song was released twice as a single and was successful the second time, becoming a top-10 hit in Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. Black, who wrote the song while broke, commented: "I was really being ironic... Most people took it at face value."[3]

  1. ^ "Black singles".
  2. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 9.
  3. ^ Leigh, Spencer (28 January 2016). "Colin Vearncombe: Singer known as Black whose 1987 song Wonderful Life was a hit around the world". The Independent. Retrieved 22 June 2017.