The Wild Life

Infobox Single
Name = The Wild Life


Artist = Bananarama
from Album = Bananarama
B-side =
Released = November 1984
Format = 7" single, 12" single
Recorded = January 1984
Genre = Pop, New Wave
Length =
Label = London Records
Writer = Sara Dallin
Siobhan Fahey
Keren Woodward
Jolley & Swain
Producer = Jolley & Swain
Last single = "Hot Line to Heaven"
(1984)
This single = "The Wild Life"
(1984)
Next single = "Do Not Disturb"
(1985)"The Wild Life" is a song written and performed by English girl group Bananarama. Written in two days, the track was composed for and included in the 1984 American film of the same name "The Wild Life", (starring Christopher Penn) and on its soundtrack. Bananarama's second, self-titled album had already been in stores for several months when this single was issued, and for a time the album was re-released with "The Wild Life" included. The song was released as a single in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Japan. The UK was instead given the song "Hot Line to Heaven" as the album's final single.

"The Wild Life" peaked at number seventy on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and did not chart in any other countries. The "Bananarama" track listing was reverted to its original sequence shortly thereafter and "The Wild Life" did not appear on CD until the 2002 hits package "The Essentials".

The music video features the girls performing the song in a studio filled with colourful fabrics. Their footage is intercut with excerpts from the film.

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