Someone Like You (Van Morrison song)

Infobox Single
Name = Someone Like You
Caption =
Artist = Van Morrison
from Album = Poetic Champions Compose
A-side = "Someone Like You"
B-side = "Celtic Excavation"
Released = November 1987
Format =
Recorded = Summer 1987
Genre = Celtic, Folk-rock
Length = 4:06
Label = Mercury
Writer = Van Morrison
Producer = Van Morrison
Certification =
Chart position = * #28 "Billboard" Adult Contemporary (U. S.) [ [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/retrieve_chart_history.do?model.chartFormatGroupName=Singles&model.vnuArtistId=88332&model.vnuAlbumId=11959 Van Morrison] chart history at Billboard.com]
Last single = "Did Ye Get Healed?"
(1987)
This single = "Someone Like You"
(1987)
Next single = "Queen of the Slipstream"
(1988)
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Poetic Champions Compose
Type = studio
prev_track = "Celtic Excavation"
prev_no = 6
this_track = "Someone Like You"
track_no = 7
next_track = "Alan Watts Blues"
next_no = 8"Someone Like You" is a popular, romantic ballad written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and recorded on his 1987 album, "Poetic Champions Compose".

It is one of the songs on Van Morrison's 2007 compilation album, "Van Morrison at the Movies - Soundtrack Hits" and has been included in several movies since the early 1990s.

A re-mastered version has been included in the 2007 compilation album, "Still on Top - The Greatest Hits".

Movies with "Someone Like You"

*Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
*Someone Like You (2001)
*Proof of Life (2000)
*One Fine Day (1996)
*French Kiss (1995)
*Prelude to a Kiss (1992)
*Only the Lonely (1991)

Personnel on original release

*Van Morrison - vocal, guitar
*Neil Drinkwater - piano
*Steve Pearce - bass guitar
*Roy Jones - drums, percussion
*Fiachra Trench - string arrangement

Covers

:*Air Lovers:*Dina Carroll:*Vanessa L. Williams:*Shawn Colvin:*John Waite

Notes

External links

* [http://www.vanmorrison.co.uk/?m=Content&Content(record_id)=b2950180e54389f3cf9d93ad908ac00e# Lyrics and Audio sample] 1980s, Poetic Champions Compose