I Cannot Believe It's True

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"I Cannot Believe It's True"
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Single by Phil Collins
from the album Hello, I Must Be Going!
B-side "Thru These Walls"
ReleasedApril 1983 (US)
Recorded1982
Genre Pop rock
Length5:14
Label Atlantic Records (International)
Songwriter(s) Phil Collins
Producer(s) Phil Collins, Hugh Padgham
Phil Collins singles chronology
"Why Can't It Wait 'Til Morning"
(1983)
"I Cannot Believe It's True"
(1983)
"Like China"
(1983)

"I Cannot Believe It's True" is a song by Phil Collins from his second solo album Hello, I Must Be Going! . It was the third US single released from the album and was only released in the US and Canada; internationally it had instead been released as the B-side of "You Can't Hurry Love".

Contents

Cash Box noted the "cowbell-like" percussion and "Collins' profound pop tunesmithing." [1]

The song found moderate success on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching #79.

Track listing

U.S. 7" single (Atlantic)

  1. "I Cannot Believe It's True"
  2. "Thru These Walls"

U.S. 12" promo single (Atlantic)

  1. "I Cannot Believe It's True"
  2. "I Cannot Believe It's True" (live on 19 December 1982 in Pasadena, California at Perkins Palace) [2]

Charts

Chart (1983)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 79

Credits

Live version

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References

  1. "Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. 30 April 1983. p. 8. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  2. "Phil Collins Setlist at Perkins Palace, Pasadena".