DEF: Maxi Priest “Wild World”

London-born musician Maxi Priest has hit the Top 40 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart five times, most successfully with his number one hit “Close to You” in 1990. Priest’s first Top 40 hit was hit first charting single, a remake of Cat Stevens’ “Wild World” that on this date in 1989 climbed to a peak position of number 25. “Wild World” by Maxi Priest is today’s Daily Eighties Flashback.