If the Lights Go Out
2008 single by Katie Melua
| "If the Lights Go Out" | ||||
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| Single by Katie Melua | ||||
| from the album Pictures | ||||
| B-side | "Looking for Clues" | |||
| Released | 25 February 2008 | |||
| Genre | Art rock | |||
| Length | 3:14 | |||
| Label | Dramatico | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Mike Batt | |||
| Producer(s) | Mike Batt | |||
| Katie Melua singles chronology | ||||
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"If the Lights Go Out" is a song written by Mike Batt for The Hollies, and first released by them in the July 1983 on the album What Goes Around.[1]
Cash Box said that "a love-will-prevail-even-if-doomsday-comes message is affirmed by the group’s classic harmonies and guitar tones."[2]
The cover version by Georgian-born, British singer Katie Melua, was released on 25 February 2008. It is Melua's eleventh single (not counting her number one duet of "What a Wonderful World" with Eva Cassidy) and the third from her third album, Pictures.
Track listings
- "If The Lights Go Out" (Radio Mix)
- "Looking For Clues"
References
External links
- Katie Melua website
- Katie Melua 'If The Lights Go Out' Interview & Preview YouTube
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- Call Off the Search
- Piece by Piece
- Pictures
- The House
- Secret Symphony
- Ketevan
- In Winter
- Album No. 8
- Love & Money
- "The Closest Thing to Crazy"
- "Call Off the Search"
- "Crawling up a Hill"
- "Nine Million Bicycles"
- "I Cried for You"/"Just Like Heaven"
- "Spider's Web"
- "It's Only Pain"
- "Shy Boy"
- "If You Were a Sailboat"
- "Mary Pickford"
- "If the Lights Go Out"
- "Toy Collection"
- "Two Bare Feet"
- "The Flood"
- "A Happy Place"
- "To Kill You with a Kiss"
- "Better Than a Dream"
- "Fields of Gold"
- "What a Wonderful World" (with Eva Cassidy)
