Everytime You Go Away

Infobox Single
Name = Everytime You Go Away


Artist = Paul Young
from Album = The Secret of Association
Released = 1985
Format = 7"
Recorded =
Genre = Ballad, Blue-eyed soul
Length = 4:23
Label = Columbia
Writer = Daryl Hall
Producer = Laurie Latham
Last single = "Love of the Common People" (1984)
This single = "Everytime You Go Away" (1985)
Next single = "I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down" (1985)"Everytime You Go Away" is a song written by Daryl Hall and covered by Paul Young in 1985 (see 1985 in music).

The original appeared on Hall & Oates's 1980 album, "Voices," although it was not released as a single. Young's version hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on July 27 1985. It remains his only number-one hit and one of only two top 10 hits he had on the U.S. pop singles chart. It also topped the U.S. adult contemporary chart for two weeks. The song peaked at No. 4 in the UK, Young's home country.

Young's version features a haunting combination of echoed piano, Pino Palladino's distinctive fretless bass and an electric sitar, the latter a long-neglected instrument by the mid-1980s.

At the end of the 1987 movie, "Planes, Trains and Automobiles", the song is performed by Blue Room. In 2006, Clay Aiken covered the song on his CD "A Thousand Different Ways".