I Believe In A Thing Called Love by The Darkness

Song Info

I Believe in a Thing Called Love is a song by the English rock band The Darkness. The song reached #2 in the UK Singles Charts, beaten by the Black Eyed Peas' Where Is The Love?. Lead singer Justin Hawkins sings most of the song in a falsetto. This was one of ten songs on their debut album, Permission to Land, which was released in July 2003 on the Must Destroy record label and Atlantic Records. In March 2005, Q magazine placed "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" at number 47 in its Read more...

The Darkness

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Awards

This song has not won any awards that are recognised by Song of the Decade. We include BRIT Awards, Ivor Novello Awards, NME Awards, MTV Europe Awards, MOBO Awards and BPI Awards.

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chalkster

@ 12:58am on 27 November 2009

camp rock at its best - bring it back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Muteen

@ 7:35pm on 13 November 2009

Simply, a great rock song with a band playing the guitar like the enjoy it

Skeletonpilot

@ 9:25am on 5 November 2009

I remember our friends from Manchester visiting us in the Netherlands. Mark still suffering from the hangover he got from the gig of the Darkness he visited the night before, gave me a copy of the 'Permission To Land' album. I never heard of them but I got hooked from the start. Great song, great band, deserves to end op high in this chart.

sam_47_cheese

@ 3:21pm on 29 October 2009

I will be voting this as my song of the decade, mainly because if it wasn't for this band I wouldn't have found this radio station, as at the time it was one of the only stations that played this song! Its awesome!

Lanky_Rockstar

@ 3:26pm on 26 October 2009

I'm a part time party DJ and I can garauntee when I play this everyone is on their feet rocking out and singing along! A true classic that doesn't take itself too seriously!

hungoverdrawn

@ 1:03pm on 22 October 2009

The Darkness won best British album (for Permission To Land, which this song is on), best British group and best British rock act at the 2004 Brit Awards, Songwriters of the Year at the Ivor Novello Awards and Best UK & Ireland Act at the 2003 MTV Europe awards. That's got to count for something, surely?

StewPink

@ 8:46am on 20 October 2009

A much needed breathe of fresh air for the British music industry at the time, they swept the floor at the Brit Awards and EVERYBODY had a copy of their debut album! 1 in 5 homes had a copy was the statistic, if my memory serves me correctly! They kick started the re-introduction of rock bands in the charts, youngsters and oldies all agreed! Sad they couldn't hold it togeather and that the record labels didn't give One Way Ticket anywhere near the advertising it deserved! But... with anybody and everybody reforming these days who knows, come back guys... britain needs you!!!!!