Steps - I Know Him So Well. Winter Tour, London, Christmas Concert 02/12/12 video free download

Steps - I Know Him So Well. Winter Tour, London, Christmas Concert 02/12/12

"I Know Him So Well" is a song from the concept album and subsequent musical Chess by Tim Rice, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. In this duet, two women -- Svetlana, the Russian chess champion's estranged wife, and Florence, his mistress -- express their bittersweet feelings for him and at seeing their relationships fall apart.

The duet was number one in the UK for four weeks in 1985 when released as a single by Elaine Paige (as Florence) and Barbara Dickson (as Svetlana), who laid down their vocals separately and never met during the recording of the song, only for the video and subsequent performances on Top of the Pops and the European tours.[1][2] This recording remains in the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest selling UK Chart single ever by a female duo. Paige also appeared in the original London West End stage production of Chess.

The song has been covered by other music artists including:

Barbra Streisand for her 1985 album The Broadway Album; the track was later included on her 1991 box-set Just for the Record

The Shadows on their 1986 album Moonlight Shadows (instrumental version)

Whitney Houston and her mother Cissy Houston on Houston's 1987 album Whitney

Richard Clayderman recorded the song for his 1987 album Songs of Love

Willeke Alberti and Simone Kleinsma in 1989 as a Dutch version renamed "Ik Ken Hem Te Goed"

Steps for the 1999 Abbamania tribute album; their version was later released as a single in support of their 2001 compilation album, Gold: Greatest Hits.

Vivian Chow and Shirley Kwan, who covered the song in Cantonese as (男人心)

John Barrowman on his 2008 album Music Music Music, with Daniel Boys

Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, who performed a spoof of the song on their 1990 UK Live tour (available on VHS video only)

Paul O'Grady (in his Lily Savage persona) as a live duet with Barbara Dickson on the TV special An Evening With Lily Savage (available on DVD)

Amateur Transplants, who used the tune for Finals Fantasy on their second album Unfit to Practice

Idina Menzel and Kerry Ellis performed a version of the song at the concert version of Chess at the Royal Albert Hall with the London Philharmonic Orchestra

Elaine Paige and Susan Boyle, who performed a live cover of the song on the TV program I Dreamed a Dream: The Susan Boyle Story