| One Perfect Day | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Little Heroes |
| Album: | Play by Numbers |
| Released: | March 1982 |
| Studio: | Studios 301, Sydney, New South Wales |
| Genre: | New wave, pop rock |
| Length: | 3:30 |
| Label: | EMI |
| Producer: | Dave Marett |
| Prev Title: | India Was Calling Me |
| Prev Year: | 1981 |
| Next Title: | Young Hearts |
| Next Year: | 1982 |
"One Perfect Day" is a song written and sung by Roger Hart-Wells and performed by the Australian band Little Heroes. It was released in March 1982 as the lead single from their second studio album, Play by Numbers (1982). The single entered the Australian Kent Music Report Singles Chart in April 1982 and peaked at No. 12.
In June 1982, Hart-Well said, "If this single had not succeeded, we probably would have gone off the road and had a long look at ourselves."[1]
In August 2012, Roger Hart-Wells said "One Perfect Day" came to him one night as he was watching coverage of the 1979 United Kingdom general election, thinking about a beloved girlfriend who had died several months earlier, and had just finished reading a science-fiction novel This Perfect Day by Ira Levin. Hart-Wells said the song came together "very quickly".
In February 2017 Roger Hart-Wells explained how "One Perfect Day" was written about Byron Shire comedian, Sandy Gandhi (1959–2017), and a friend, Carrie Hall. He told Javier Encalada of The Northern Star, that he was watching the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 and thought of how Gandhi and Hall were in the United Kingdom.[2]
7" single (EMI-679)
. Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book. St Ives, NSW. 1993. 178. 0-646-11917-6. Kent Music Report. NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.