| "Look Away" | ||||
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| Single by Chicago | ||||
| from the album Chicago 19 | ||||
| B-side | "Come in from the Night" | |||
| Released | September 9, 1988[1] | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 4:02 | |||
| Label | Full Moon, Reprise | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Diane Warren | |||
| Producer(s) | Ron Nevison | |||
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"Look Away" is a 1988 power ballad by American rock band Chicago. Written by Diane Warren, produced by Ron Nevison, and with Bill Champlin on lead vocals, it is the second single from the band's album Chicago 19. "Look Away" topped the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in December 1988, becoming the group's third and final number one hit, following "If You Leave Me Now" (1976) and "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" (1982). "Look Away" is Chicago's seventh song to have peaked at No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart, and it was also the No. 1 song on the 1989 year-end Billboard Hot 100 chart, even though it never held the No. 1 spot at all in 1989. This is because Billboard's year-end chart covers the charts as far back as late November of the previous year.
The song is the band's only No. 1 single following the departure of Peter Cetera in 1985.