Green Light (Cliff Richard song)

"Green light" is a song recorded by Cliff Richard and released as a single in February 1979. It was the third single and title track taken from his 1978 studio album Green Light. The song is written by Alan Tarney who went on to write some of Richard's biggest hits, such as the follow-up single "We Don't Talk Anymore", "Dreamin'" (1980), "Wired for Sound" (1981) and "Some People" (1987).

"Green Light"
Single by Cliff Richard
from the album Green Light
B-side"Imagine love"
Released16 February 1979[1]
Format7" single
Recorded17 April 1978
StudioAbbey Road Studios[2]
GenreRock, Pop
Length3:45 (single), 4:05 (LP)
LabelEMI
Songwriter(s)Alan Tarney[3]
Producer(s)Bruce Welch
Cliff Richard singles chronology
"Can't take the Hurt Anymore"
(1978)		 "Green Light"
(1979)		 "We Don't Talk Anymore"
(1979)

The single peaked at only number 57 on the UK Singles Chart in a three-week run.[4] Nevertheless, it broke his singles-chart drought after his previous three singles in 1978 had all missed the charts - only the second year he had not had a hit single since his debut single in 1958. In the US, the track received FM radio airplay on AOR formats, but didn't chart.[5]

Richard especially included the original version on his 1994 greatest hits album The Hit List (primarily made up of all Richard's top 5 hits to that time) despite it not even making the Top 40 of the UK Singles Charts. About the two bonus tracks on the album, he said in the cover sleeve of the album "A lot of you asked for a re-release of "Miss You Nights" so just for you it's included as a bonus and just for me, so is "Green Light"![6]

Music critic Bruce Eder, highlighted a rendition Richard recorded with the backing of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and released in 1983 on the live album Dressed for the Occasion. In reviewing what he described as Richard's "most impressive concert album", he said:

"We Don't Talk Anymore" as performed here could easily be in the running for the best recording ever done by Richard, and "Green Light" isn't far behind.

— Bruce Eder, Eder, Bruce. Review: Cliff Richard - Dressed for the Occasion at AllMusic. Retrieved 10 July 2017.

Chart performance
Chart (1979) Peak
position
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[7] 57

Covers

References
  1. "The OFFICIAL Cliff Richard website: Discography - Singles". Cliffrichard.org. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
  2. Lewry, Peter; Goodall, Nigel (1991). Cliff Richard The Complete Recording Sessions 1958-1990. London: Blandford. p. 121. ISBN 0-7137-2242-8.
  3. https://www.discogs.com/Cliff-Richard-Green-Light/release/1813598
  4. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 371–2. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  5. "Cliff Richard - Green Light". glorydazemusic.com. Archived from the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 8 July 2017.
  6. Cliff Richard (1994). The Hit List (Booklet (CD)). EMI Records.
  7. "Cliff Richard: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.


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