"A Girl Like You" is a song by British singer-songwriter Edwyn Collins from his third solo studio album, Gorgeous George (1994). The song samples the drums track of Len Barry's single "1-2-3" (1965).

There are two different music videos for this song. The video in the United States was in turn an avant-garde tribute to its lyrics (e.g. when Collins sings the lyrics "you made me acknowledge the devil in me", a child's painting of the devil is overlaid over his face). The international video shows Collins singing over videos, and silhouettes of dancers.

The Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook played vibraphone on the recording.

On 30 September 2009, Collins' manager posted to Collins' page on Myspace to discuss how Collins owned the copyright to the song, and wanted to make it available to anyone as a free download, but Myspace only allowed major labels to assert the rights to tracks hosted on their site.

A later posting notes that, after the story was picked up by major news outlets, the song was once again available on the music player via Myspace.

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The song appeared on the soundtrack of the 1995 movie Empire Records.

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