{{short description|1987 song by Lawrence Gowan}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox song | name = Moonlight Desires | cover = Gowan - Moonlight Desires single cover.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Lawrence Gowan | album = Great Dirty World | released = {{Start date|1987|3}} | format = | recorded = Producers Studios, Los Angeles, California | studio = | venue = | genre = Soft rock | length = {{Duration|m=4|s=13}} | label = Columbia | writer = Lawrence Gowan | producer = David Tickle | prev_title = Cosmetics | prev_year = 1985 | next_title = Awake the Giant | next_year = 1987 }} "'''Moonlight Desires'''" is a song by Scottish-born Canadian musician Lawrence Gowan. Released in March 1987 as the lead single from his third studio album, ''Great Dirty World'', it reached number ten in Canada. Yes's Jon Anderson, walking by the studio, heard the song being played, entered and asked if he could add a harmony vocal, and made it up on the spot.{{Citation needed|date=March 2021}} This single had a b-side called "Jet White," which was recorded in 1982 and originally appeared on Gowan's self-titled debut album.
==Music video== The video was directed by Rob Quartly and was filmed in Mexico, with several of the scenes being filmed at Teotihuacan.<ref>''Is this Live?: Inside the Wild Early Years of MuchMusic : the Nation's Music...'' by Christopher Ward – Page 149</ref>
==Popular culture== The song was used to soundtrack a key scene in the 2019 film ''Black Conflux''.<ref>Brad Wheeler, [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/film/article-moonlight-desires-granted-behind-the-greatest-soundtrack-moment-in/ "Moonlight desires, granted: Behind the greatest soundtrack moment in recent Canadian film history"]. ''The Globe and Mail'', 3 July 2021.</ref> It is also used in the Degrassi television movie ''School's Out'' (1992),<ref>{{Citation |title=School's Out (1992) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp8iK0gg9yg |access-date=2023-08-04 |language=en}}</ref> and as a title for the nineteenth episode of the fourth season of ''Degrassi: The Next Generation'' (2005).
==Charts== {|class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" !scope="col"|Chart (1987) !scope="col"|Peak<br>position |- !scope="row"|Canada Adult Contemporary (RPM)<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.0812&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.0812.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.0812|title=RPM Weekly Chart: Adult Contemporary (May 30, 1987)|accessdate=20 June 2018|work=RPM}}</ref> |2 |- !scope="row"|Canada Top Singles (RPM)<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.0814&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.0814.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.0814|title=RPM Weekly Chart: Top Singles (May 30, 1987)|accessdate=20 June 2018|work=RPM}}</ref> |10 |}
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