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Without You (Badfinger song)

"Without You" is a song written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans of British rock group Badfinger, and first released on their 1970 album No Dice. The power ballad[1] has been recorded by over 180 artists,[2] and versions released as singles by Harry Nilsson (1971), T. G. Sheppard (1983) and Mariah Carey (1994) became international best-sellers. The Nilsson version was included in 2021's Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[3] Paul McCartney once described it as "the killer song of all time".[4]

"Without You"

9 November 1970 (1970-11-09)

15 & 29 July 1970

Abbey Road, London

4:43

Apple

Pete Ham, Tom Evans

Geoff Emerick

In 1972, writers Ham and Evans received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.[5]

"Without You"

"Gotta Get Up"

11 October 1971 (1971-10-11)

1971

Island, London[14]

Soft rock[15]

3:17

RCA

Pete Ham, Tom Evans

Richard Perry

– vocals

Harry Nilsson

– piano

Gary Wright

John Uribe – acoustic guitar

– bass guitar

Klaus Voormann

– drums

Jim Keltner

– string and French horn arrangements

Paul Buckmaster

in 1975: (single/ No. 95 R&B)[51]

Ruby Winters

in 1977: (album A Little Love) (also 1979 single/ No. 77 C&W); Heart (album Magazine)

Susie Allanson

in 1983: (album On Broadway); T. G. Sheppard (album Greatest Hits) (also single/ No. 12 C&W)

Herman van Veen

in 1991: (album The Earth Is...)[52] (also single/ No. 48 A/C);[53][54]

Air Supply

in 1991: "Ohne dich" ("without you") by (East Germany)[55]

Frank Schöbel

List of Dutch Top 40 number-one singles of 1994

List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1972 (U.S.)

List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1972 (U.S.)

List of number-one singles from the 1970s (UK)

List of number-one hits of 1994 (Austria)

List of number-one hits of 1994 (Germany)

List of number-one singles of 1994 (Ireland)

List of number-one hits of 1994 (Switzerland)

List of number-one singles from the 1990s (UK)

List of RPM number-one singles of 1972

(2000). Without You: The Tragic Story of "Badfinger". Frances Glover Books. ISBN 978-0-9657122-2-4.

Matovina, Dan

on YouTube

Nilsson – Without You