Without You (Badfinger song)

"Without You" is a song written by Pete Ham and Tom Evans of British rock group Badfinger, and first released on their 1970 album No Dice. The power ballad^[1] has been recorded by over 180 artists,^[2] and versions released as singles by Harry Nilsson (1971), T. G. Sheppard (1983) and Mariah Carey (1994) became international best-sellers. The Nilsson version was included in 2021's Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.^[3] Paul McCartney once described it as "the killer song of all time".^[4]

In 1972, writers Ham and Evans received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.^[5]

^ February 2015, Classic Rock14 (14 February 2015). "The 40 Greatest Power Ballads Playlist". Classic Rock Magazine. Archived from the original on 29 May 2019. Retrieved 24 April 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ According to the ASCAP
^ "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. 15 September 2021. Archived from the original on 22 November 2021. Retrieved 8 November 2021.
^ Paul McCartney VH1 Behind The Music Archived 12 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 10 June 2009
^ Lister, David, Pop ballads bite back in lyrical fashion, The Independent, 28 May 1994