Peter and Gordon - I Go To Pieces (1964) Rare Stereophonic Audio (New Media) 28/10/2025

After the work we'd done in bringing you Rachel Sweet's version of this Del Shannon song, we decided here at The Square Disc to show you just how good Peter and Gordon's 1964 version was too.

"I Go To Pieces" incredibly never made the UK charts, but in the States the song peaked at number 9 on The Billboard Hot 100.

"I Go to Pieces" was passed to Peter and Gordon when the 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.

Peter and Gordon were a British pop duo, composed of Peter Asher (b. 1944) and Gordon Waller (1945–2009), who achieved international fame in 1964 with their first single, the million-selling "A World Without Love".

Hope you'll all enjoy this wonderful song written by the late great Del Shannon.

Thanks all.