"All by Myself" is a power ballad written and performed by Eric Carmen in 1975. It borrows very heavily from Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, which Carmen believed was in the public domain. Having found it was not, only after the record had been issued, Carmen had to come to an agreement with the Rachmaninoff estate. Carmen's full version has an extended piano solo and lasts over seven minutes, although there is also an edited version at 4:22. In a 2006 poll for UK's five programme Britain's Favourite Break-up Songs, Eric Carmen's version of this song was voted seventeenth.
The song was originally recorded by the author and released in 1975 to great success. It reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, #1 on Cashbox Top 100 Singles and #12 in the UK. Carmen's original version has spawned numerous cover versions, by such artists as Sheryl Crow and Céline Dion.
