"If the Lights Go Out"
Single by Katie Melua
from the album Pictures
B-side"Looking for Clues"
Released25 February 2008
GenreArt rock
Length3:14
LabelDramatico
Songwriter(s)Mike Batt
Producer(s)Mike Batt
Katie Melua singles chronology
"Mary Pickford"
(2007)
"If the Lights Go Out"
(2008)
"The Flood"
(2010)

"If the Lights Go Out" is a song written by Mike Batt for The Hollies, and first released by them in the July 1983 on the album What Goes Around.[1]

Cash Box said that "a love-will-prevail-even-if-doomsday-comes message is affirmed by the group’s classic harmonies and guitar tones."[2]

The cover version by Georgian-born, British singer Katie Melua, was released on 25 February 2008. It is Melua's eleventh single (not counting her number one duet of "What a Wonderful World" with Eva Cassidy) and the third from her third album, Pictures.

Track listings

  1. "If The Lights Go Out" (Radio Mix)
  2. "Looking For Clues"

References

  1. "Hollies information page". Archived from the original on 1 May 2012. Retrieved 13 October 2012.
  2. "Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. 20 August 1983. p. 8. Retrieved 20 July 2022.


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