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| type       = Greatest Hits
| artist     = [[Jimmy Somerville]] featuring [[Bronski Beat]] & [[The Communards]]
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'''''For a Friend: The Best Of''''' is a 34-track, [[double album|double disc]] greatest hits compilation and career retrospective by [[Jimmy Somerville]], featuring his work as a solo artist, as well as with [[Bronski Beat]] and [[The Communards]].
The compilation was released in 2009, and spans twenty five years of Somerville's career. It begins with Bronski Beat's 1984 hit "[[Smalltown Boy]]", and concludes with tracks from Somerville's 2009 album ''Suddenly Last Summer'', which features stripped down covers of songs Somerville considered formative. It includes ten UK top twenty hits including "Smalltown Boy" (Bronski Beat: UK #3, 1984), "Don't Leave Me This Way" (The Communards: UK #1, 1986), and "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" (Jimmy Somerville: UK #5, 1989).
==Track listing==
===Disc 1===
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| 1.
| "[[Smalltown Boy]]"
| [[Bronski Beat]]
| Steve Bronski, Larry Steinbachek, [[Jimmy Somerville]]
|
|-
| 2.
| "[[Why? (Bronski Beat song)|Why?]]"
| Bronski Beat
| Bronski, Steinbachek, Somerville
|
|-
| 3.
| "[[It Ain't Necessarily So]]"
| Bronski Beat
| [[George Gershwin]], [[Ira Gershwin]], [[Dorothy Heyward]], [[DuBose Heyward]]
| From [[Porgy and Bess]]
|-
| 4.
| "[[I Feel Love]]/[[Johnny Remember Me]] (Medley)"
| Bronski Beat
* Featuring [[Marc Almond]]
| [[Geoff Goddard]], [[Giorgio Moroder]], [[Pete Bellotte]], [[Donna Summer]]
|
* Donna Summer<br />("I Feel Love")
* [[John Leyton]] and [[The Outlaws (UK band)|The Outlaws]]<br />("Johnny Remember Me")
|-
| 5.
| "Screaming"
| Bronski Beat
| Bronski, Steinbachek, Somerville
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|-
| 6.
| "Run from Love" (Remix version from ''[[Hundreds & Thousands (album)|Hundreds & Thousands]]'')
| Bronski Beat
| Bronski, Steinbachek, Somerville
|
|-
| 7.
| "Hard Rain" (Remix version from ''Hundreds & Thousands'')
| Bronski Beat
| Bronski, Steinbachek, Somerville
|
|-
| 8.
| "[[Don't Leave Me This Way]]"
| [[The Communards]]
* Featuring [[Sarah Jane Morris (singer)|Sarah Jane Morris]]
| [[Kenneth Gamble]], [[Leon Huff]], Cary Gilbert
|
* [[Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes]]<br />(1975)
* [[Thelma Houston]]<br />(1976)
|-
| 9.
| "La Dolorosa"
| The Communards
| [[Richard Coles]], Somerville
|
|-
| 10.
| "Disenchanted"
| The Communards
| Coles, Somerville
|
|-
| 11.
| "[[So Cold the Night]]"
| The Communards
| Coles, Somerville
|
|-
| 12.
| "You Are My World"
| The Communards
| Coles, Somerville
|
|-
| 13.
| "Forbidden Love"
| The Communards
| Coles, Somerville
|
|-
| 14.
| "Breadline Britain"
| The Communards
| Coles, Somerville
|
|-
| 15.
| "Tomorrow"
| The Communards
| Coles, Somerville
|
|-
| 16.
| "There's More to Love (Than Boy Meets Girl)"
| The Communards
| Coles, Somerville
|
|}
===Disc 2===
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| 1.
| "Victims"
| The Communards
| Coles, Somerville
|
|-
| 2.
| "[[For a Friend]]"
| The Communards
| Coles, Somerville
|
|-
| 3.
| "[[Never Can Say Goodbye]]"
| The Communards
| [[Clifton Davis]]
|
* [[The Jackson 5]]<br />(1971)
* [[Gloria Gaynor]]<br />(1974)
|-
| 4.
| "[[Comment te dire adieu? (song)|Comment te dire adieu?]]"
| Jimmy Somerville
* Featuring [[June Miles-Kingston]]
| [[Serge Gainsbourg]], Arnold Goland, Jack Gold
| [[Françoise Hardy]]
|-
| 5.
| "[[You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)]]"
| Jimmy Somerville
| James Wirrick, [[Sylvester James]]
| Sylvester (Sylvester James)
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| 6.
| "Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough)"
| Jimmy Somerville
| Somerville
|
|-
| 7.
| "[[Heartbeat (Jimmy Somerville song)|Heartbeat]]"
| Jimmy Somerville
| Matt Rowe, Somerville, [[Biffco|Richard Stannard]]
|
|-
| 8.
| "By Your Side"
| Jimmy Somerville
| Rowe, Somerville, Stannard
|
|-
| 9.
| "Safe" ([[Todd Terry]] Short Session)
| Jimmy Somerville
| Gary Butcher, Somerville
|
|-
| 10.
| "[[To Love Somebody (song)|To Love Somebody]]"
| Jimmy Somerville
| [[Barry Gibb]], [[Robin Gibb]]
| [[Bee Gees]]
|-
| 11.
| "Lay Down"
| Jimmy Somerville
| Gainsbourg, [[Banderas (duo)|Sally Herbert]], Somerville
| Samples Serge Gainsbourg's "Contact"
|-
| 12.
| "Dark Sky"
| Jimmy Somerville
| Herbert, Somerville
|
|-
| 13.
| "Something To Live For" (Sounds of Life Mix)
| Jimmy Somerville
| Herbert, Ed Monaghan, Somerville
|
|-
| 14.
| "[[Can't Take My Eyes Off You]]"
| Jimmy Somerville
| [[Bob Crewe]], [[Bob Gaudio]]
| [[Frankie Valli]]
|-
| 15.
| "Come On"
| Jimmy Somerville
| Sunniva Greeve, [[Rosenstolz|Peter Plate]], Somerville, Ulf Leo Sommer
|
|-
| 16.
| "Could It Be Love?"
| Jimmy Somerville
| Felix Gauder, Milan Sajé, Somerville
|
|-
| 17.
| "Sweet Unknown"
| Jimmy Somerville
| Alison Shaw, Jim Shaw
| [[Cranes (band)|Cranes]]
|-
| 18.
| "[[People Are Strange]]"
| Jimmy Somerville
| [[John Paul Densmore]], [[Robbie Krieger]], [[Ray Manzarek]], [[Jim Morrison]]
| [[The Doors]]
|}
==Charts==
===Weekly charts===
{|class="wikitable sortable"
!Chart (2012)
!Peak<br>position
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|[[UK Independent Singles and Albums Charts|UK Independent Albums Chart]] ([[Official Charts Company|OCC]])<ref>[https://www.officialcharts.com/charts/independent-albums-chart/20120108/131 UK - Independent Albums Chart - ''For a Friend - The Best Of']</ref>
|align="center"|14
|-
|[[UK Albums Chart]] (OCC)<ref>{{cite web|title=Chart Log UK (2012) – Jimmy Somerville|url=https://www.zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK2012.HTM|work=Zobbel|at=|publisher=Dipl.-Bibl.(FH) Tobias Zywietz |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406210350/http://zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK2012.HTM|url-status=live|archive-date=2023-04-06|quote=FOR A FRIEND – THE BEST OF ... (Music Club Deluxe/MCI)" #160}}</ref>
|align="center"|160
|}
==References==
{{reflist|2}}
{{Jimmy Somerville}}
{{Bronski Beat}}
{{The Communards}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:For A Friend: The Best Of Bronski Beat, The Communards and Jimmy Somerville}}
[[Category:Jimmy Somerville compilation albums]]
[[Category:Bronski Beat albums]]
[[Category:The Communards albums]]
[[Category:2009 greatest hits albums]]