More than This (Roxy Music song)

"More Than This"
Single by Roxy Music
from the album Avalon
B-side "India"
Released April 1982 (1982-04) [1]
Format Vinyl record, 45 RPM, 7", Single
Recorded 1981-1982 (1981-1982)
Genre Synthpop, Pop Rock
Length 4:30 (Album version)
4:10 (7" single version)
Label Polydor/Warner Bros./E.G./Atco
Writer(s) Bryan Ferry
Producer(s) Rhett Davies and Roxy Music
Roxy Music singles chronology
"Jealous Guy"
(1981)
"More Than This"
(1982)
"Avalon"
(1982)

"More Than This" is a 1982 single by the English rock band Roxy Music. It was released as the first single from their final album, Avalon, and was the group's last Top 10 UK hit (peaking at #6). Although it only reached #102 (on Billboard's Bubbling Under The Hot 100 chart) in the United States, it remains one of Roxy Music's best-known songs in America.

The American alternative rock band 10,000 Maniacs released a successful cover version in 1997 which peaked at #25, and British singer Emmie released a dance cover version which reached #5 in the UK in January 1999.

Composition

The song was written by the lead singer Bryan Ferry, who has stated in interviews that he began writing the songs for Avalon while on the western coast of Ireland, which he believes contributed to the dark melancholy of the album.

"More Than This" is somewhat unusual for a pop song in that Ferry's lead vocals end at 2:45 minutes, leaving the last 1:45 minutes as a synthesizer-driven instrumental.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1982) Peak
position
Australian Kent Music Report[2] 6
Belgium VRT Top 30[3] 13
Dutch Top 40[3] 24
French Singles Chart[4] 6
German Media Control Singles Chart[3] 24
Irish Singles Chart[5] 6
Italian Singles Chart[6] 21
New Zealand Singles Chart[3] 12
Norwegian Singles Chart[3] 2
Radio Luxemburg Singles[7] 3
Spanish Singles Chart 10
Swedish Singles Chart[3] 17
Swiss Singles Chart[3] 6
UK Singles Chart[8] 6

Year-end charts

Chart (1982) Position
Australian Kent Music Report 49
Italian Singles Chart[6] 77

Cover versions

References

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  2. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
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