"Lonesome Tonight" is a song by British group New Order, released in April 1984 by Factory Records.
The A-side and main single was one of the group's more popular songs "Thieves Like Us" and the catalogue number for the single was FAC 103. Both tracks appear on the group's 1987 Substance compilation.
Like many early New Order songs, it features an extended instrumental conclusion, with Sumner's lyrics ending not quite three minutes into its playing time. The song has been played 29 times in concert.
Famous quotes containing the words lonesome and/or tonight:
“Life’s an awfully lonesome affair.... You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.”
—Emily Carr (1871–1945)
“I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy.... So I feel tonight like the man who is lodging happily in the inn which lies half way along the journey and that in time, with a fresh impulse, we shall go the rest of the journey and sleep at the journey’s end like men with a quiet conscience.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)