One Day Like This is the second single from English band Elbow's fourth studio album, The Seldom Seen Kid, released in June 2008. The song won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.
One Day Like This featured in the 2012 Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony. The chorus line lyric "one day like this a year would see me right" had been in singer Guy Garvey's diary for several years before the song was written. Speaking in 2014 about the song, Garvey said, "We put the chords behind it and realised it was going to be the hook of all hooks. I was like, 'what do we think?'... It was, 'it's kind of similar to "Hey Jude", isn't it?' I was like, ‘yeah’. Elbow went on win the 2009 BRIT Award for Best British bandGuy
Edward John Garvey (born March 1974) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and BBC Radio 6 Music presenter. He is the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Elbow. Garvey grew up in Bury, Lancashire. In the early 1990s, while at sixth-form college in Whitefield, near Bury, Garvey formed Elbow with Mark and Craig Potter, Pete Turner, and Richard Jupp. He serves as the lyricist of Elbow, and has been widely praised for his songwriting throughout his career. As well as vocal duties Garvey has also played a wide variety of instruments live including both electric and acoustic guitar, trumpet, and various forms of percussion. Elbow won two Ivor Novello awards for best song writing.
