“Someone Like You” by Van Morrison

"Someone Like You" sits on Poetic Champions Compose, Van Morrison's seventeenth studio album, and he recorded it at Wool Hall Studios in Beckington, Somerset, in the summer of 1987. The Northern Irish singer-songwriter wrote, arranged, produced and sang it himself, with Mick Glossop engineering and mixing, and it carries itself with the unhurried calm of an artist with nothing left to prove.

As a single that year it got to 28 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart, but its real life came later, as a staple of weddings and films; it turned up on the 2007 compilation Van Morrison at the Movies, and in 2019 it went all the way to number one on Irish radio airplay. It also gave Morrison the frame he would build "Have I Told You Lately" on two years later.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.