"Someone Like You" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and recorded for his seventeenth studio album, Poetic Champions Compose (1987). It has become a wedding and film classic and the song subsequently furnished the framework for one of Morrison's most popular classics and love ballads, "Have I Told You Lately", released in 1989.Hage. The Words and Music of Van Morrison. p. 109
In 1987, the single charted at number 28 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in the US.[ Van Morrison] chart history at Billboard.com In 2019, it peaked at #1 on the Ireland radio airplay chart.
Recording "Someone Like You" was recorded in the summer of 1987 at Wool Hall Studios in Beckington, Somerset with Mick Glossop as engineer.Heylin, Can You Feel the Silence?, p. 525
Other releases The song was released again on two of Morrison's compilation albums in 2007: on the compilation album Van Morrison at the Movies – Soundtrack Hits and as a remastered version on the album Still on Top – The Greatest Hits.
Films featuring "Someone Like You" Only the Lonely (1991) Prelude to a Kiss (1992) French Kiss (1995) One Fine Day (1996) Someone Like You (2001) Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) American Sniper (2014)
Personnel Van Morrison – vocals, guitar Neil Drinkwater – piano Steve Pearce – bass guitar Roy Jones – drums, percussion Fiachra Trench – string arrangement
Cover versions "Someone Like You" is a popularly performed cover song, with the best-known versions by Dina Carroll, Vanessa L. Williams, Shawn Colvin and John Waite.
References
Notes Hage, Erik (2009). The Words and Music of Van Morrison, Praeger Publishers Heylin, Clinton (2003). Can You Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography, Chicago Review Press