How Am I Supposed To Live Without You

"How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" is a song originally recorded by Laura Branigan in 1983. The song, written by Michael Bolton and Doug James, was recorded by Bolton later the same decade.

First performed on TV by Lisa Hartman in 1981 as a music video on Knots Landing.

As the second single from Branigan's second solo album Branigan 2 spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart and peaked at number twelve on the Hot 100 in early-October 1983. Branigan's single also hit the number-one spot on the Adult Contemporary chart in Canada. This success came without benefit of a music video. Branigan performed the song on the syndicated music countdown show Solid Gold in late 1983 and on the popular holiday special Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve.

Michael Bolton and Doug James co-wrote the song and Branigan's record was their first major hit as songwriters. Bolton, whose own recording career would not take off until 1987, went on to co-write the rock ballad "I Found Someone" for Branigan's Hold Me album in 1985. Another song co-written by Bolton and James,"It's Been Hard Enough Getting Over You", was recorded by Branigan in 1993 for Over My Heart. Though Branigan 2 went out of print in 2004, Branigan's original version appears on the albums The Best of Branigan (1995), The Essentials: Laura Branigan (2002) and The Platinum Collection (2006).

The single's B-side was a newly-written song over the music to the Italian song "Mama", by Giancarlo Bigazzi and Umberto Tozzi. Branigan's first major hit had been with "Gloria", another English song written to an Italian hit by the duo. She would go on to have hits with "Self Control", co-written by Bigazzi, and "Ti Amo", an English song written by Diane Warren over an Italian song by Bigazzi and Tozzi.

Since Branigan introduced "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You", the ballad has been recorded by dozens of artists around the world, in English and Spanish, becoming something of a modern pop standard. Instrumental versions of the song have been recorded featuring variously the piano, guitar, saxophone, pan flute, steel drum, and music box.