You're Amazing

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"You're Amazing"
Robert Palmer You're Amazing 1990 Single.jpg
Single by Robert Palmer
from the album Don't Explain
B-side "So Emboldened"
Released1990
Genre
Length3:50
Label EMI (US)
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Robert Palmer
Robert Palmer singles chronology
"I'll Be Your Baby Tonight"
(1990)
"You're Amazing"
(1990)
"Mercy Mercy Me / I Want You"
(1991)
Audio video
"You're Amazing" on YouTube

"You're Amazing" is a song by English vocalist Robert Palmer, which was released in 1990 as the second single from his tenth studio album Don't Explain . [1] [2] It was written by Steven Fellows, Alan Mansfield, Palmer, Guy Pratt and Steve Stevens, and produced by Palmer. [2]

Contents

In the US, "You're Amazing" peaked at No. 28 on the Billboard Hot 100, [3] and No. 5 on Billboard Top Rock Tracks chart. [4] A music video was filmed to promote the single.

Critical reception

Upon release, Billboard commented: "Palmer's reliably strong soul stylings added to headbanger guitar riffs and sweet background harmonies proves to be a quirky, but potent, combination." [5] In a retrospective review of Don't Explain, Paul Sinclair of Super Deluxe Edition listed the song as one of the album's "charmless excursions into heavy-ish rock". [6]

Track listing

Cassette single

  1. "You're Amazing" – 3:50
  2. "So Emboldened" – 3:14

CD single (American promotional #1 – Remixed Version)

  1. "You're Amazing" – 3:35

CD single (American promotional #2)

  1. "You're Amazing" – 3:50

CD single (Japanese release)

  1. "You're Amazing" – 3:50
  2. "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight" – 3:26
  3. "Deep End" – 4:32

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for "You're Amazing"
Chart (1990–1991)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [7] 103
Canadian Singles Chart [8] 14
US Billboard Hot 100 [3] 28
US Billboard Top Rock Tracks [4] 5

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References

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  4. 1 2 Billboard. "Robert Palmer You're Amazing Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved 2018-11-19.
  5. Billboard magazine - Single Reviews - November 10, 1990 - page 91
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