Angel Eyes (Home and Away)

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"Angel Eyes (Home and Away)"
Wet Wet Wet Angel Eyes Cover.jpg
Single by Wet Wet Wet
from the album Popped In Souled Out
Released30 November 1987
Recorded1986
Length4:30 (single version)
5:16 (album version)
LabelPolyGram
Songwriter(s)Graeme Clark
Tommy Cunningham
Neil Mitchell
Marti Pellow
Chris Difford
Producer(s)Michael Baker
Axel Kroll
Wet Wet Wet singles chronology
"Sweet Little Mystery"
(1987) 		"Angel Eyes (Home and Away)"
(1987) 		"Temptation"
(1988)

"Angel Eyes (Home and Away)" is the third single from Wet Wet Wet's first album, Popped In Souled Out. It was released on 30 November 1987 and reached number 5 in the UK Singles Chart. The lyrics in the chorus make reference to two Hal David and Burt Bacharach compositions "Walk On By" and "The Look of Love", and quote an entire verse of the Squeeze single "Heartbreaking World". Some later issues of this single (including all of the US issues) accordingly credit the Squeeze lyricist Chris Difford as a co-author.

Marti Pellow recorded his own version of the song for inclusion on his 2002 album Marti Pellow Sings the Hits of Wet Wet Wet & Smile.

An earlier version of the song, entitled "Home and Away", was on the 1986 Glasgow bands' compilation cassette, Honey at the Core.

Track listings[]

CD:

  1. "Angel Eyes (Home and Away)" (full length version)
  2. "We Can Love"
  3. "Angel Eyes (Home and Away)" (original demo version)
  4. "Angel Eyes (Home and Away)" (7" version)

MC:

  1. "Angel Eyes (Home and Away)"
  2. "We Can Love"
  3. "Home & Away"
  4. "Angel Eyes" (extended version)

7":

  1. "Angel Eyes (Home and Away)"
  2. "We Can Love"

12":

  1. "Angel Eyes (Home and Away)"
  2. "We Can Love"
  3. "Home & Away"

Charts[]

Weekly charts[]

Chart (1987) Peak
position
Irish Singles Chart[1] 9
UK Singles Chart[2] 5
Chart (1988) Peak
position
Dutch Top 40[3] 3
South African Top 40[4] 13
French SNEP Singles Chart[3] 20
Swedish Singles Chart[3] 17
New Zealand Singles Chart[3] 4

Year-end charts[]

Chart (1988) Position
Dutch Top 40[5] 15
Europe (European Hot 100 Singles)[6] 71

References[]

  1. ^ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie Archived 11 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 19 February 2008.
  2. ^ "Wet Wet Wet | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". Officialcharts.com. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Angel Eyes (Home and Away)", French, Dutch, New Zealand and Swedish singles charts Lescharts.com. Archived 24 September 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 22 January 2008.
  4. ^ "South African Rock Lists Website - SA Charts 1969 - 1989 Acts (W)". Rock.co.za. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  5. ^ "Single top 100 over 1988" (PDF). Top40.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 22 September 2010.
  6. ^ "1988 Year End Eurocharts" (PDF). Music & Media. 1 January 1988. p. 30. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
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