More than This (Roxy Music song)

"More than This"
Single by Roxy Music
from the album Avalon
B-side"India"
ReleasedMarch 1982 (1982-03)[1]
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Songwriter(s)Bryan Ferry
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Roxy Music singles chronology
"Jealous Guy"
(1981) 		"More than This"
(1982) 		"Avalon"
(1982)

"More than This" is a song by the English rock band Roxy Music. It was released in March 1982 as the first single from their eighth and final studio album, Avalon (1982). "More than This" was the group's last top-10 UK hit, peaking at No. 6 on the UK Singles Chart, and also charted in the United States, reaching No. 58 on the Billboard Rock Top Tracks chart.

"More than This" has become one of Roxy Music's most popular tracks.[8] American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs released a cover version in 1997 that peaked at No. 25, and British singer Emmie released a cover that reached No. 5 in the UK in January 1999. The cover of the single's release is the painting Veronica Veronese, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, which was completed in 1872 with Alexa Wilding as the model.

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  3. ^ Pitchfork Staff (24 August 2015). "The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s". Pitchfork. Retrieved 18 October 2022. Pop songs are very rarely as lush and unabashedly romantic as "More Than This" ... "More Than This" is a high peak of the New Romantic moment of early 1980s UK pop...
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