To be with you

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Singles

To be with you   DE 1 02/17/1992 (32 weeks)   AT 1 03/22/1992 (18 weeks)   CH 1 03/29/1992 (15 weeks)   UK 3 03/07/1992 (11 weeks)   US 1 December 21, 1991 (17 weeks)

To Be with You is a 1990 song by American hard rock band Mr. Big , written by Eric Martin and David Grahame. It appeared on the 1991 album Lean into It .

history

In To Be with You is about a man who has fallen in love with a woman, in turn, the heart was broken after a separation. When Eric Martin was in his sophomore year of high school, he was friends with a classmate and his older sister. She gave him advice about school days and explained the typical problems of puberty. Eric Martin had fallen in love with her, but estimated his chances with her as slim and therefore he dedicated the song to her.

Eric Martin wrote a rough version of the song in his youth; Martin later worked on the melody with guitarist Paul Gilbert . It came to completion with David Grahame, who was working as a songwriter for the label Atlantic Records at the time.

The Dog Turner Music release was on December 21, 1991, in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Belgium the " soft rock number " was a number-one- Hit . In the 1992 chartbreaker, Gilbert also contributed a motif-based solo to the vocal melody.

Music video

The director of the music video is Nancy Bennett, in the video the band performs the song in a railroad car. The first half of the clip was shot in black and white , the second in color.

Cover versions

• 1992: Grant & Forsyth (You're so Vain / Sealed with a Kiss / To Be with You / When I Need You)
• 1999: Die Quietschboys (The riche man)
• 2003: Westlife
• 2004: Human Nature
• 2004: Richie Kotzen
• 2007: Andrew Spencer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chart sources: DE, AT, CH, US UK
2. ↑ Interview with Eric Martin in Rocksquad.net ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ www.discogs.com .
4. ^ Wieland Harms: The Unplugged Guitar Book. 20 of the most beautiful songs for acoustic guitar. Gerig Music, ISBN 3-87252-249-3 , pp. 46-50 ( Mr. Big: To Be With You ).
5. ↑ Music video on YouTube