This Night (Billy Joel song)
{{Infobox song
| name = This Night
| cover = This Night (Billy Joel single) coverart.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Billy Joel
| album = An Innocent Man
| A-side = "Leave a Tender Moment Alone" (U.S.)
| B-side = "I'll Cry Instead" (live) (U.K. and Japan)
| released = October 21, 1983 (Japan)
November 1984 (UK)
| recorded =
| studio =
| genre =
| length = 4:19
| label = Columbia
| writer = Billy Joel, Ludwig van Beethoven
| producer = Phil Ramone
| prev_title = Leave a Tender Moment Alone
| prev_year = 1984
| year = 1984
| next_title = Keeping the Faith
| next_year = 1984
}}
"This Night" is a song by Billy Joel released as the sixth single from his album An Innocent Man. The basis of the song's chorus uses the second movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Pathétique Sonata.{{cite AV media|title=Billy Joel Channel|people=Billy Joel|medium=Radio station|publisher=Sirius XM|date=2016}} Beethoven is credited as one of the song's writers on the sleeve of the album as "L.v. Beethoven". Joel has said in interviews that "This Night" was written about his brief relationship with supermodel Elle Macpherson, whom he dated just prior to second wife Christie Brinkley.
The song was released as a single only in the UK and Japan, reached number 78 on the UK Singles Chart and number 88 on the Japanese Oricon Singles Chart.
In the United States, "This Night" was the B-side of "Leave a Tender Moment Alone".
Track listing
=7" single=
- "This Night"
- "I'll Cry Instead" (live)
=Japanese 7" single / CBS 07SP 722=
- "This Night"
- "Careless talk"
Chart positions
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Chart (1984)
!Peak |
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Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders){{cite web|url=https://www.ultratop.be/nl/song/1ba9/Billy-Joel-This-Night |title=Billy Joel - This Night |publisher=ultratop.be |date= |accessdate=2012-09-17}}
| style="text-align:center;"|21 |
Japan (Oricon)
| style="text-align:center;"|88 |
UK Singles (OCC){{Cite web |title=Official Singles Chart|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/19841202/7501/ |access-date=22 December 2023| publisher=Official Charts Company}}
| style="text-align:center;"|78 |