“Fool (If You Think It’s Over)” is a song written and originally released in 1978 by English singer-songwriter Chris Rea. It appears on his debut album, Whatever Happened to Benny Santini?, and peaked at number 12 in the US, becoming his highest charting single there. The single’s charting success in the US earned him a Grammy nomination as Best New Artist in 1979.

“Fool (If You Think It’s Over)” was the lead single from Rea’s debut album Whatever Happened to Benny Santini? which was recorded at producer Gus Dudgeon’s Thames Valley recording studio The Mill. The song’s inspiration was the experience Rea’s younger sister Paula had encountered some years previously of being devastated at losing her first boyfriend.

Rea wrote “Fool” intending that it be recorded by Al Green. He intended it to be a Memphis blues song, but according to Rea, “It ended up being this huge California thing. It’s the only track I never played guitar on which tells you something about the spirit of it. On top of that, it was just a huge hit. So there was nothing I could do. It was like: ‘This is not me!’” Rea played keyboards on “Fool” with the track’s background vocals provided by Rea and the Mill’s assistant engineer Stuart Epps.