Veronica (song)

"Veronica"
Single by Elvis Costello
from the album Spike
B-side"You're No Good" / "The Room Nobody Lives In" (12" single only)
Released20 February 1989
Recorded1987–1988
Genre
Length3:09
LabelWarner Bros.
Songwriter(s)Elvis Costello, Paul McCartney
Producer(s)Elvis Costello, Kevin Killen, T-Bone Burnett
Elvis Costello singles chronology
"A Town Called Big Nothing"
(1987)
"Veronica"
(1989)
"Baby Plays Around EP"
(1989)

"Veronica" is a song by Elvis Costello, released in 1989 as the lead single from his album Spike. The song was co-written by Costello with Paul McCartney, was co-produced with T-Bone Burnett and Kevin Killen, and features McCartney on his iconic Höfner bass. In 2004, Entertainment Weekly voted it one of Costello's "10 Greatest Tunes".

"Veronica" was also Costello's highest-charting top 40 hit in the United States, peaking at No. 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, No. 1 on its Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, and No. 10 on its Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.