Perfect
Fairground Attraction
1988
Annual listening list: initial release cycle, with recent carryovers; not an original-release-date field. Release chronology remains partly unverified.
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About Fairground Attraction
Song-specific inspiration or recording background is not established for this entry. This sourced artist profile provides career context.
Fairground Attraction built its sound around acoustic folk-pop and skiffle elements, with Eddi Reader as lead singer. Perfect introduced the group to a broad audience, followed by the album The First of a Million Kisses. After the original group's breakup, Ay Fond Kiss collected other recordings. A much later reunion produced the album Beautiful Happening.
Artist background sources
Apple Music - Fairground Attraction artist biography
Licensed biography read for folk-pop/skiffle style, Eddi Reader, Perfect, debut album, Ay Fond Kiss and 2024 reunion album. No individual recording version or release-day claims. | Retrieved 2026-10-19
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-19. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
Retained annual-list context
Perfect by Fairground Attraction is included for 1988 on the basis of the cited chart-associated source. This establishes the annual connection, not the circumstances in which the song was written. No reliable song-specific account of its inspiration was established in this review.
Annual-list context only; songwriting inspiration remains unestablished
UK top-ten singles in 1988 (Wikipedia chart transcription)
Secondary chart transcription reviewed: title, artist and presence in the UK top ten during this year. Supplemental annual selection, not an original release date or a U.S. year-end rank.
Other appearances and versions
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Sources and scope
Source-backed annual association (secondary source; not a complete discographic review)
Editorial artist-repertoire classification
UK top-ten singles in 1988 (Wikipedia chart transcription)
Secondary chart transcription reviewed: title, artist and presence in the UK top ten during this year. Supplemental annual selection, not an original release date or a U.S. year-end rank.
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