Look Away
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| "Look Away" | |
|---|---|
| Song | |
| B-side | "Come In From the Night" |
"Look Away" is the name of a 1989 #1 Billboard Hot 100 Chart hit written by Diane Warren. It was recorded by the band Chicago for their 1988 album Chicago 19, with Bill Champlin singing lead vocals. When released as a single that year, the song proved successful, topping the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in December 1988, matching the success of 1976's "If You Leave Me Now" and 1982's "Hard to Say I'm Sorry". "Look Away" was the seventh of eight number ones on the Adult Contemporary chart [2]. The single also yielded the band's most successful year-end singles ranking, #1 on Billboard's 1989 year-end Hot 100.
The song was uncharacteristic of earlier Chicago hits in that it did not prominently feature horns. This song was also the band's first number one hit of the eighties that wasn't sung in a tenor voice.
References
- ^ RIAA Gold and Platinum Database [1]
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 54.
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