"The Finer Things"
US edition cover
Single bySteve Winwood
from the albumBack in the High Life
B-side	"Night Train (Instrumental)"
Released	February 1987 (1987-02)
Genre	Pop,blue-eyed soul
Length	4:00 (Edit Version) 5:52 (Album Version)
Label	Island
Songwriters	Steve Winwood,Will Jennings
Producers	Steve Winwood,Russ Titelman
Steve Winwood singles chronology
"Back in the High Life Again" (1986) "The Finer Things" (1987) "Valerie" (1987)

"The Finer Things" is a 1987 song written and performed bySteve Winwood. It was released as the fourthsingle from Winwood's 1986 albumBack in the High Life. It went to number one for three weeks on theAdult Contemporary chart in 1987 and peaked at number eight on theBillboard Hot 100.^[1]

7": Island / 7-28498 United States

1. "The Finer Things" - 4:00
2. "Night Train" (Instrumental) - 4:10

12": Island / 608 876 Europe

1. "The Finer Things" - 8:25
2. "The Finer Things" (Instrumental) - 4:35

• Steve Winwood – lead vocals, keyboards, synth solo, drum machine programming, sequencer programming
• Robbie Kilgore – additional keyboards, synthesizer and sequencer programming
• Rob Mounsey – additional keyboards
• Andrew Thomas –PPG Waveterm synthesizer programming
• Paul Pesco – guitar
• Jimmy Bralower – additional drum machine programming
• John Robinson – drums
• Carole Steele – congas
• James Ingram – backing vocals
• Dan Hartman – backing vocals

• "The Finer Things" atDiscogs (list of releases)

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