"If I Was" is a popular song written by Midge Ure and Danny Mitchell, released as a single off of his first solo album The Gift. It reached #1 on the UK singles chart for a single week in October 1985. This was Ure's third number one, coming after his success with Slik in 1976 ("Forever and Ever") and Band Aid in 1984 ("Do They Know It's Christmas?").
In the sleeve notes for the 2001 compilation If I Was: The Very Best of Midge Ure & Ultravox Ure wrote:
The music video featured Ure's face patterns on a Pin Art pinscreen.
The instrumental "Piano" was released on the B-side of the 7" and 12" singles. The 12" single featured a second track: a cover of David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World", originally released on the film soundtrack of Party Party (1983). Both songs were added as bonus tracks to the CD reissue of The Gift in 1996.
The Arno is a river in the Tuscany region of Italy. It is the most important river of central Italy after the Tiber.
The river originates on Mount Falterona in the Casentino area of the Apennines, and initially takes a southward curve. The river turns to the west near Arezzo passing through Florence, Empoli and Pisa, flowing into the Tyrrhenian Sea at Marina di Pisa.
With a length of 241 kilometres (150 mi), it is the largest river in the region. It has many tributaries: Sieve at 60 kilometres (37 mi) long, Bisenzio at 49 kilometres (30 mi), and the Era, Elsa, Pesa, and Pescia. The drainage basin amounts to more than 8,200 square kilometres (3,200 sq mi) and drains the waters of the following subbasins:
Arno Atoll (Marshallese: Arņo, [ɑ̯ɑɳˠːʌ͡ɔɔ̯]) is a coral atoll of 133 islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district of the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands. Its total land area is only 5 square miles (13 km2). Unlike most other atolls, Arno encloses three different lagoons, a large central one, and two smaller ones in the north and east. Its main lagoon encloses an area of 130.77 square miles (338.7 km2). At a distance of only 20 kilometres (12 mi), it is the closest atoll to the Marshall Islands capital, Majuro Atoll, and can be seen looking east from Majuro on a clear day at low tide.
The population of Arno Atoll was 2,069 at the 1999 census. The most populous islets are Ajeltokrok, Kobjeltak, Rearlaplap, Langor and Tutu. The largest village is Ine, Arno.
People of Arno are well known for their productivity in making copra (the dried out meat of coconuts, from which coconut oil is extracted). Arno women are renowned for their production of the Kili Bag, a popular handwoven handbag/purse, named after another island in the Marshall Islands (to which the people of Bikini were eventually relocated as a result of the US nuclear tests that were conducted on their home atoll). Arno supposedly had a traditional "love school".
The Arno is a river in the Tuscany region of Italy.
Arno may also refer to:
If I Was a Better Man
Would Fellow Men Take Me to Their Hearts
If I Was a Stronger Man
Carrying the Weight of Popular Demand
Tell Me Would That Alarm Her
I'd Never Harm Her At All
If I Was a Soldier
Captive Arms I'd Lay Before Her
If I Was a Sailor
Seven Oceans I'd Sail to Her
If I Was a Wiser Man
Would Other Men Reach Out and Touch Me
If I Was a Kinder
Man
Dishing Up Love For a Hungry World
Tell Me Would
That Appease Her
I Want to Please Her Again
If I Was a Painter
I'd Paint a World That Couldn't Taint Her
If I Was a Leader
On Food of Love From Above
I Would Feed Her
If I Was a Poet
All My Love in Burning Words
I Would Show It
If I Was Her Lover
Her Eyes in Kisses I Would Cover
Come Here My Baby
Oh They Can't Touch You Now
I'll Keep You Safe and Warm
I'll Never Leave You At All
Come Here My Baby
Oh They Won't Touch You
Dishing Up Love For a Hungry World
Tell Me Would That Appease You
I Want to Please You Again
If I Was a Soldier
Captive Arms I'd Lay Before Her
If I Was a Sailor
Seven Oceans I'd Sail to Her
If I Was a Painter
I'd Paint a World That Couldn't Taint Her
If I Was a Leader
On Food of Love From Above I Would Feed Her
If I Was a Poet
All My Love in Burning Words I Would Show It