View from a Bridge

"View from a Bridge"
Single by Kim Wilde
from the album Select
B-side "Take Me Tonight"
Released 5 April 1982
Format 7", 12"
Recorded 1981
Genre Pop, new wave
Length 3:32
Label RAK
Songwriter(s) Ricky Wilde, Marty Wilde
Producer(s) Ricky Wilde
Kim Wilde singles chronology
"Cambodia"
(1981)		 "View from a Bridge"
(1982)		 "Child Come Away"
(1982)

"Cambodia"
(1981)		 "View From a Bridge"
(1982)		 "Child Come Away"
(1982)

"View from a Bridge" is the second single released internationally from Kim Wilde's second album, Select.

The song tells the story of a girl committing suicide by jumping off a bridge and was a Top 10 hit in several European countries and in Australia.

A faster version with a dance beat was released in 2006 on Never Say Never.

It has sold 348,000 copies in France.[1]

Chart performance

Chart (1982) Peak
position
United Kingdom 16
Switzerland 2
Belgium 4
Sweden 4
Finland[2] 5
Netherlands 7
Germany 6
Australia 7
Austria 10
Ireland 16

References

  1. ↑ http://www.infodisc.fr/Ventes_Chansons_Tout_Temps.php?debut=1000
  2. ↑ Nyman, Jake (2005). Suomi soi 4: Suuri suomalainen listakirja (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Tammi. ISBN 951-31-2503-3.
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