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"Someone Like You" is a song written by Northern Irish singer and songwriter Van Morrison and recorded on his seventeenth studio album, Poetic Champions Compose (1987). It has become a wedding and movie classic and the song subsequently furnished the framework for one of Morrison's most popular classics and love ballads, "Have I Told You Lately", released in 1989.[1]

"Someone Like You"
Single by Van Morrison
from the album Poetic Champions Compose
B-side	"Celtic Excavation"
Released	November 1987
Recorded	Summer 1987
Studio	The Wool Hall, Beckington
Genre	Smooth jazz
Length	4:06
Label	Mercury
Songwriter(s)	Van Morrison
Producer(s)	Van Morrison
Van Morrison singles chronology
"Did Ye Get Healed?" (1987) "Someone Like You" (1987) "Queen of the Slipstream" (1988)

In 1987, the single charted at number 28 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary in the U.S.[2] In 2019, it peaked at #1 on the Ireland radio airplay chart.[3]

Recording

"Someone Like You" was recorded in the summer of 1987 at Wool Hall Studios in Beckington, Somerset with Mick Glossop as engineer.[4]

Other releases

This song was released again on two of Morrison's compilation albums in 2007. A remastered version has been included in the album, Still on Top - The Greatest Hits and it is one of the songs on Van Morrison's 2007 compilation album, Van Morrison at the Movies - Soundtrack Hits.

Movies featuring "Someone Like You"

• Only the Lonely (1991)
• Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
• French Kiss (1995)
• One Fine Day (1996)
• Someone Like You (2001)
• Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
• American Sniper (2014)

Personnel

• Van Morrison - vocals, guitar
• Neil Drinkwater - piano
• Steve Pearce - bass guitar
• Roy Jones - drums, percussion
• Fiachra Trench - string arrangement

Covers

"Someone Like You" is a popularly performed cover song, with the best-known versions by Dina Carroll,[5] Vanessa L. Williams,[6] Shawn Colvin[7] and John Waite.[8]

Notes

References

• Hage, Erik (2009). The Words and Music of Van Morrison, Praeger Publishers ISBN 978-0-313-35862-3
• Heylin, Clinton (2003). Can You Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography, Chicago Review Press ISBN 1-55652-542-7

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- [en] Someone like You (Van Morrison song)

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[es] Someone like You (canción de Van Morrison)

«Someone like You» es una canción del músico norirlandés Van Morrison publicada en el álbum de 1987 Poetic Champions Compose y como sencillo el mismo año.

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