| If the Lights Go Out | |
| Cover: | Katie Melua - If the Lights Go Out.JPG |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Katie Melua |
| Album: | Pictures |
| B-Side: | Looking for Clues |
| Released: | 25 February 2008 |
| Genre: | Art rock |
| Length: | 3:14 |
| Label: | Dramatico |
| Producer: | Mike Batt |
| Prev Title: | Mary Pickford |
| Prev Year: | 2007 |
| Next Title: | The Flood |
| Next Year: | 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.