Without You (Badfinger song)

"Without You"
Song by Badfinger
from the album No Dice
Released9 November 1970 (1970-11-09)
Recorded15 & 29 July 1970
StudioAbbey Road, London
Length4:43
LabelApple
Songwriter(s)Pete Ham, Tom Evans
Producer(s)Geoff Emerick
Music video
"Without You" (audio) on YouTube

"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) and Mariah Carey (1994) became international number one hits. 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]

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

  1. ^ "The 40 Greatest Power Ballads Playlist". Classic Rock Magazine. 14 February 2015. Archived from the original on 29 May 2019. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
  2. ^ According to the ASCAP
  3. ^ "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. 15 September 2021. Archived from the original on 22 November 2021. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
  4. ^ Paul McCartney VH1 Behind The Music Archived 12 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 10 June 2009
  5. ^ Lister, David, Pop ballads bite back in lyrical fashion, The Independent, 28 May 1994