"When I Need You" was written by Albert Hammond and Carole Bayer Sager, and it was a departure for Sayer, who’d previously had success with the pop hits “Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance)” in 1975, and 1976's “You Make Me Feel Like Dancing,” both of which he co-wrote. As he aspired to find greater success in the United States, the English singer was drawn to the lonely-hearts ballad penned by the legendary songwriting duo.
With lyrics such as “Miles and miles of empty space in between us/ A telephone can't take the place of your smile,” the song served as a ballad about a touring musician missing his lover but was still relatable to lovelorn listeners.
Sayer said a song like ’When I Need You’ doesn’t ‘come along every day’
“I’m working with a new producer now in England, the same guy who produces Sheena Easton, another British act,” Sayer said. “And he's wonderful at finding songs because material is the great thing that's a song like ‘When I Need You,’ which I had, you know, I mean doesn't come along every day. And you have to find those songs, that's the crux of it.”
Sayer, now 77, never had another No. 1 hit after “When I Need You.” But in recent years, he has marveled over the song’s lasting popularity all over the world.
He also posted a throwback performance of “When I Need You” in a 2023 Facebook post. “#ThrowbackThursday to me performing "When I Need You", which was also released in February 1977. Almost 50 years later, and this is still such a classic,” Sayer wrote in February 2023.
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