Without Your Love (Roger Daltrey song)

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"Without Your Love"
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Cover of the Netherlands release
Single by Roger Daltrey
from the album McVicar
ReleasedSeptember 1980
Recorded1980
Length3:17
Label Polydor
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]

Contents

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]
Belgium & Spain releases
Netherlands release [3]

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.

Charts (1980)Peak
position
Dutch Singles Chart 2
US Billboard Hot 100 [4] 20
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary [5] 4
UK Singles Chart 55

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References

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  5. Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 69.