Without Your Love (Roger Daltrey song)

"Without Your Love"
Cover of the Netherlands release
Single by Roger Daltrey
from the album McVicar
B-side"Escape Part 1"
ReleasedSeptember 1980
Recorded1980
Length3:17
LabelPolydor
Songwriter(s)Billy Nicholls
Producer(s)Jeff Wayne
Roger Daltrey singles chronology
"Free Me"
(1980) 		"Without Your Love"
(1980) 		"Walking in My Sleep"
(1984)

"Without Your Love" is a song released in 1980 by Roger Daltrey of The Who written by Billy Nicholls and was a hit for him on his album McVicar. The song was included in the soundtrack of the film McVicar, a bio-pic of English bank robber John McVicar, that was produced by Daltrey and also featured him in the starring role. The original version of the song was by Billy Nicholls himself with his band White Horse in 1977.[1]

The single was produced by Jeff Wayne and recorded at Advision Studios, London with Daltrey's vocals recorded at Air Studios, Montserrat, West Indies.

Track listings

US release[2]
  • "Without Your Love" (3:17)
  • "Escape Part 1" (3:58) - B-side
Belgium & Spain releases
  • "Without Your Love"
  • "Say It Ain't So, Joe"
Netherlands release[3]
  • "Without Your Love"
  • "My Time Is Gonna Come"

Charts

"Without Your Love" was released as a single in the United States, and in various European countries in 1980 and peaked at No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100.[4] It was also a minor hit in the UK, reaching No. 55 in the UK Singles Chart, and was a big hit in the Netherlands reaching No. 2 there.

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Originals © by Arnold Rypens - WITHOUT YOUR LOVE". Originals.be. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Roger Daltrey – Without Your Love / Escape Part 1 (1980, Vinyl)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Roger Daltrey – Without Your Love / My Time Is Gonna Come (1980, Vinyl)". Discogs.com. Retrieved 25 April 2021.
  4. ^ Jancik, Wayne (1998). The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders. New York: Billboard Books, p. 403, ISBN 0-8230-7622-9
  5. ^ "Roger Daltrey – Without Your Love" (in Dutch). Ultratop 50. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  6. ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – week 17, 1981" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  7. ^ "Roger Daltrey – Without Your Love" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  8. ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  9. ^ "Roger Daltrey Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  10. ^ "Roger Daltrey Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  11. ^ "Jaaroverzichten 1981". Ultratop. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  12. ^ "Top 100-Jaaroverzicht van 1981". Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  13. ^ "Jaaroverzichten – Single 1981". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 20 November 2021.