If the Lights Go Out

"If the Lights Go Out"
Single by Katie Melua
from the album Pictures
B-side"Looking for Clues"
Released25 February 2008
GenreArt rock
Length3:14
LabelDramatico
Songwriter(s)Mike Batt
Producer(s)Mike Batt
Katie Melua singles chronology
"Mary Pickford"
(2007) 		"If the Lights Go Out"
(2008) 		"The Flood"
(2010)

"If the Lights Go Out" is a song written by Mike Batt for The Hollies, and first released by them in the July 1983 on the album What Goes Around.[1]

Cash Box said that "a love-will-prevail-even-if-doomsday-comes message is affirmed by the group’s classic harmonies and guitar tones."[2]

The cover version by Georgian-born, British singer Katie Melua, was released on 25 February 2008. It is Melua's eleventh single (not counting her number one duet of "What a Wonderful World" with Eva Cassidy) and the third from her third album, Pictures.

Track listings

  1. "If The Lights Go Out" (Radio Mix)
  2. "Looking For Clues"

References

  1. ^ "Hollies information page". Archived from the original on 1 May 2012. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
  2. ^ "Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. 20 August 1983. p. 8. Retrieved 20 July 2022.


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