Synopsis

Go West perform on a stark white soundstage while a playful parade of surreal images unfolds around them. The duo sing and dance amid oversized props, visual gags, floating objects and exaggerated romantic imagery. The video also nods to the song's connection with Pretty Woman through lookalikes resembling Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, while brief film-related imagery appears in the background. Rather than recreating the movie's story, it turns the track into a colorful, knowingly theatrical pop spectacle.

Factoids & Trivia

• The video was made to capitalize on the song's association with Pretty Woman, but it does not rely on conventional scenes from the film. Instead, it uses lookalikes of Julia Roberts and Richard Gere as a playful visual reference.

• The Richard Gere lookalike is dressed more like Gere's character from An Officer and a Gentleman than Edward Lewis from Pretty Woman, adding another layer to the video's deliberately mixed-up Hollywood imagery.

• Brief glimpses of Pretty Woman-related material are superimposed on strips of film, allowing the video to acknowledge the soundtrack connection without becoming a straightforward movie montage.

• The surreal white-stage setting and stream of unrelated visual jokes give the clip a deliberately absurd tone. The approach contrasts with the song's polished, romantic pop sound and helps the video stand apart from a standard soundtrack tie-in.

• "King of Wishful Thinking" became Go West's best-known song. Its appearance in Pretty Woman helped it reach No. 8 in the United States, while the video was nominated for British Video of the Year at the 1991 Brit Awards.

• The song was written by Peter Cox, Richard Drummie and Martin Page, and was produced by Peter Wolf. It first appeared on the Pretty Woman soundtrack before being included on Go West's 1992 album Indian Summer.