Deeper Shade of Blue

"Deeper Shade of Blue"
Single by Steps
from the album Steptacular
Released3 April 2000 (2000-04-03)[1]
Recorded1999
StudioPWL (Manchester, England)
Length
  • 4:16 (album version)
  • 3:45 (radio edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • Mark Topham
  • Karl Twigg
Producer(s)
Steps singles chronology
"Say You'll Be Mine" / "Better the Devil You Know"
(1999) 		"Deeper Shade of Blue"
(2000) 		"When I Said Goodbye" / "Summer of Love"
(2000)
Music video
"Deeper Shade of Blue" on YouTube

"Deeper Shade of Blue" is a song by British dance-pop group Steps, released as the fourth single from their second studio album, Steptacular (1999), on 3 April 2000. The song was originally recorded by English singer-songwriter Tina Cousins, but aside from a few promotional 12-inch vinyl discs pressed in 1998, her version remains unreleased.[2] "Deeper Shade of Blue" entered the UK Singles Chart at number four and spent one more week in the top 10 before falling down the charts. After a total of nine weeks, it left the top 100.

In October 2011, following the band's reformation, Steps performed the track on Lorraine and Loose Women. The song was included on Steps's compilation albums Gold: Greatest Hits (2001),[3] The Last Dance (2002),[4] and The Ultimate Collection (2011).[5] On 1 September 2015, Claire Richards Richards premiered a stripped-backed piano recording of the track via her social media pages.

  1. ^ "New Releases – For Week Starting April 3, 2000: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 1 April 2000. p. 27. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  2. ^ Deeper Shade of Blue (UK 12-inch promo vinyl disc). Tina Cousins. Eastern Bloc Records. 1998. BLOC 109 TDJ.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  3. ^ Stephen Thomas Erlewine. "Gold: Greatest Hits". AllMusic.
  4. ^ O'Brien, Jon. "Last Dance". AllMusic.
  5. ^ Jon O'Brien. "The Ultimate Collection". AllMusic.