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Hard to Say I'm Sorry
"Hard to Say I'm Sorry" is a song by American rock band Chicago. The power ballad was written by bassist Peter Cetera, who also sang the lead vocals on the track, and producer David Foster. It was released on May 17, 1982, as the lead single from the album Chicago 16. On September 11 of that year, it reached No. 1 for two weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the group's second No. 1 single. It was their first top 40 hit since "No Tell Lover" in 1978 and it spent twelve weeks in the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100.
"Hard to Say I'm Sorry" is also the band's first single to be released on Full Moon Records and Warner Bros. Records and the first single to feature new member Bill Champlin.
The single was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in September of the same year. Songwriter Cetera, a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), won an ASCAP Pop Music Award for the song in the category, Most Performed Songs.
The song was also featured as the ending theme in the movie and soundtrack for Summer Lovers, a 1982 film written and directed by Randal Kleiser, starring Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah and Valerie Quennessen, and filmed on location on the island of Santorini, Greece.
The song, as well as the album on which it is featured, was a marked departure from Chicago's traditional soft rock, horn-driven sound, taking on a polished and modern feel. With minimal horns, the track instead featured more layered synthesizers and heavier distorted guitar in a 1980s power ballad styling. A second movement of the song, "Get Away", prominently does feature the Chicago horns, and it was co-written by Robert Lamm.
Deviating from Chicago's practice of having mostly band members playing on their albums, "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" featured several session musicians. The song featured producer David Foster on the piano as well as three members of the American rock band Toto, Steve Lukather on electric guitars, also both David Paich and Steve Porcaro contributing synthesizers. The song's vocals were performed by Peter Cetera, who also plays acoustic guitar. The only other member of Chicago besides Cetera that played on the track was drummer Danny Seraphine.
"Hard to Say I'm Sorry" became the band's first single to break the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 since "No Tell Lover" in early 1979 and their 13th top ten single on that chart, having last done so with "Baby, What a Big Surprise" in 1977.
The UK music publication Music Week wrote that the song "sees Chicago searching for hit feel of "If You Leave Me Now" or non-charting gem Just You 'n' Me." They also characterised "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" as "slowish, melodic, [and] lush." Billboard called it a "stately pop ballad" with "even more of an orchestral sweep than usual." The same publication ranked the song No. 2 on its list of the 50 best Chicago songs.
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Hard to Say I'm Sorry
"Hard to Say I'm Sorry" is a song by American rock band Chicago. The power ballad was written by bassist Peter Cetera, who also sang the lead vocals on the track, and producer David Foster. It was released on May 17, 1982, as the lead single from the album Chicago 16. On September 11 of that year, it reached No. 1 for two weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the group's second No. 1 single. It was their first top 40 hit since "No Tell Lover" in 1978 and it spent twelve weeks in the top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100.
"Hard to Say I'm Sorry" is also the band's first single to be released on Full Moon Records and Warner Bros. Records and the first single to feature new member Bill Champlin.
The single was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in September of the same year. Songwriter Cetera, a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), won an ASCAP Pop Music Award for the song in the category, Most Performed Songs.
The song was also featured as the ending theme in the movie and soundtrack for Summer Lovers, a 1982 film written and directed by Randal Kleiser, starring Peter Gallagher, Daryl Hannah and Valerie Quennessen, and filmed on location on the island of Santorini, Greece.
The song, as well as the album on which it is featured, was a marked departure from Chicago's traditional soft rock, horn-driven sound, taking on a polished and modern feel. With minimal horns, the track instead featured more layered synthesizers and heavier distorted guitar in a 1980s power ballad styling. A second movement of the song, "Get Away", prominently does feature the Chicago horns, and it was co-written by Robert Lamm.
Deviating from Chicago's practice of having mostly band members playing on their albums, "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" featured several session musicians. The song featured producer David Foster on the piano as well as three members of the American rock band Toto, Steve Lukather on electric guitars, also both David Paich and Steve Porcaro contributing synthesizers. The song's vocals were performed by Peter Cetera, who also plays acoustic guitar. The only other member of Chicago besides Cetera that played on the track was drummer Danny Seraphine.
"Hard to Say I'm Sorry" became the band's first single to break the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 since "No Tell Lover" in early 1979 and their 13th top ten single on that chart, having last done so with "Baby, What a Big Surprise" in 1977.
The UK music publication Music Week wrote that the song "sees Chicago searching for hit feel of "If You Leave Me Now" or non-charting gem Just You 'n' Me." They also characterised "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" as "slowish, melodic, [and] lush." Billboard called it a "stately pop ballad" with "even more of an orchestral sweep than usual." The same publication ranked the song No. 2 on its list of the 50 best Chicago songs.