The Essential

Tracklist

• 1
  Wouldn't It Be Good
  4:32
  4.0 ★
• 2
  I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
  3:22
  3.5 ★
• 3
  Dancing Girls
  3:37
• 4
  The Riddle
  3:54
  3.2 ★
• 5
  Wide Boy
  3:19
• 6
  Nobody Knows
  4:07
• 7
  One Step Ahead
  3:48
• 8
  Human Racing
  4:18
  2.0 ★
• 9
  Don Quixote
  4:09
• 10
  Drum Talk
  3:04
• 11
  Shame on You
  3:32
• 12
  Bogart
  4:41
• 13
  When a Heart Beats
  4:15
• 14
  Wild Horses
  4:00
• 15
  Gone to Pieces
  3:09
• 16
  Radio Musicola
  5:38
• 17
  Cloak and Dagger
  4:50
• 18
  Save the Whale
  5:49

More by Nik Kershaw

Wouldn’t It Be Good

Wouldn’t It Be Good 1993

The Best of Nik Kershaw

The Best of Nik Kershaw 1993

The Collection

The Collection 1991

The Riddle

The Riddle 1984

Human Racing

Human Racing 1984

Songs from the Shelf

Songs from the Shelf 2025

Release credits

• Dave Meegan
  assistant [4]
• Jerry Hey
  horn [1]
• Julian Mendelsohn
  engineer [4], mix [1-2, 7-8, 12, 17], producer [7], recording [1-2, 8, 12, 17]
• Lynda Hayes
  spoken vocals [12]
• Nik Kershaw
  writer, arranger [1-2, 8, 12, 17], horn [1], lead vocals [1-2, 4, 8, 12, 17], producer [7]
• Paul Westwood
  additional [2], bass [2]
• Paul Wright
  recording [7]
• Peter Collins
  producer [1-2, 4-5, 8-9, 12, 17]
• Roger Howorth
  assistant [1-2, 8, 12, 17]

Issues

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  T
  (Combined release view)
• 

  T
  The Essential

  CD
  7 August 2000
• 

  I
  I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me

  CD
  2001