1964-65......#9 U.S. Billboard Hot 100, #6 U.S. Cash Box Top 100, #21 Canada, #2 Australia 26
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"I Go to Pieces" is a song written by Del Shannon which became a Top Ten hit for Peter and Gordon on 20 February 1965. The duo's fourth single, it was their first not to be written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
"I Go to Pieces" passed to Peter and Gordon when that duo and Del Shannon, along with the Searchers, shared the bill for a tour of Australia in the second half of 1964. At one of the tour's venues, Shannon pitched "I Go to Pieces" to the Searchers. singing it for the group in their dressing room. Peter and Gordon in the dressing room next door overheard Shannon singing "I Go to Pieces" to the Searchers, who weren't interested in it and, recognizing the song's potential to become a Merseybeat-style hit, Peter and Gordon asked Shannon to let them record it. Peter and Gordon recorded "I Go to Pieces" at Abbey Road Studios with John Burgess producing and Geoff Love as arranger/conductor. As well as Peter and Gordon playing guitars, the session featured their guitar player, Eddie King, on twelve-string guitar.
Released in the UK on 20 November 1964, "I Go to Pieces" became the second consecutive Peter and Gordon single to miss the UK Top 50 but, as with their preceding release, "Nobody I Know," it became a hit in America, where the "British Invasion" craze was at its height. Released in the US in December 1964, "I Go to Pieces" entered the Top Ten of the Billboard Hot 100 on 20 February 1965. The title track of Peter and Gordon's third US album release, "I Go to Pieces" was cited in 1999 by Gordon Waller as his favorite of the duo's songs. Peter and Gordon's first three singles had all been Lennon–McCartney compositions, but "I Go to Pieces" began a series of four single releases by the duo which were covers of American songs.
"I Go to Pieces" afforded Peter and Gordon an international hit, reaching number 11 in Sweden while in Australia the track was a double A-side hit reaching number 26 in tandem with its flip "Love Me Baby."
"I Go to Pieces" was one of 150 songs which Clear Channel Communications requested its 1,170 stations not to play in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, drawing the comment from Peter Asher that: "I suppose a song about someone going to pieces could be upsetting if someone took it literally" (However, Asher did object to the inclusion of Peter & Gordon's "A World Without Love" on the list: "[Its] sentiment [is] as true in crisis as it is in normal times. It's a totally pro-love sentiment and could only be helpful right now.")
Peter and Gordon came back together after a gap of 37 years to perform "I Go to Pieces" at the Mike Smith Tribute Concert at B.B. King's House of Blues in New York City on 2 August 2005. The song is also one of the Peter & Gordon hits performed in the multimedia live show "Peter Asher: A Musical Memoir of the '60s and Beyond," which Peter Asher has been mounting across the US since 2010, with Asher's keyboardist Jeff Alan Ross harmonizing with Asher.

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