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"Love Song" is the seventh single released by Scottish band Simple Minds. It was issued by Virgin Records in August 1981, one month before the release of its parent album Sons and Fascination. The B-side is an instrumental version of "This Earth That You Walk Upon", which later appeared on the album with newly-recorded vocals. Despite a sticker appearing on the 12" single promising an 'extended version', all 12" releases around the world featured the 5:04 album version.

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  • "Love Song" is the seventh single released by Scottish band Simple Minds. It was issued by Virgin Records in August 1981, one month before the release of its parent album Sons and Fascination. The B-side is an instrumental version of "This Earth That You Walk Upon", which later appeared on the album with newly-recorded vocals. Despite a sticker appearing on the 12" single promising an 'extended version', all 12" releases around the world featured the 5:04 album version. The song is reportedly an ode to the close bond between Europe and America: "a relationship that's lasted across the centuries, through good and bad times, a "Love Song" between two continents." Its sound marked the beginning of a shift away from the band's early experimental phase towards a more accessible and commercial "pulsating electronic rock". The song was written and demoed in early 1981 and was tried out live on their Canada/US Tour in March 1981 before the recording sessions for the album had begun. It has since been performed on most of the band's subsequent tours. "Love Song" became Simple Mind's first single to enter the UK Top 50 - peaking at #47 in August 1981. It was more successful in Sweden and Australia, where it climbed into the Top 20. A music video for the song was shot. It is set in a nightclub and features a storyline of Jim Kerr as a DJ and the band members annoying other guests and getting into fights. At the end other guests are unable to leave the club until Kerr has finished the track and he then leads the band out of the club. In 1992, a slightly remixed version of the song was released to promote the band's Glittering Prize 81/92 compilation, backed with "Alive and Kicking". This re-release finally sent "Love Song" into the UK Top 10, where it reached #6. (en)
  • Love Song est une chanson du groupe de rock écossais Simple Minds sortie en single en août 1981, elle est extraite de l'album Sons and Fascination. C'est la première chanson du groupe à obtenir un succès commercial. Elle se hisse à la 47e place des charts britanniques mais fait mieux au Canada (38e), en Australie (17e) et en Suède (16e). En 1992, elle ressort légèrement remixée sur un single double face A avec Alive and Kicking afin de promouvoir la compilation Glittering Prize 81/92, et culmine à la 6e place au Royaume-Uni. (fr)
  • Love Song is een nummer van de Schotse band Simple Minds uit 1981, afkomstig van het album Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call. In 1992 werd een geremixte versie van het nummer uitgebracht voor het verzamelalbum Glittering Prize 81/92. De originele versie uit 1981 haalde in het Verenigd Koninkrijk de 47e positie. In Nederland deed het origineel niets in de hitlijsten. De versie uit 1992 werd een groter succes. In het Verenigd Koninkrijk bereikte deze versie de 6e positie, terwijl het in Nederland de 9e positie in de Tipparade behaalde. (nl)
  • Love Song è un singolo del gruppo musicale britannico Simple Minds pubblicato il 15 agosto 1981 come secondo estratto dall'album Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call. (it)
  • Love Song är en låt av den brittiska gruppen Simple Minds utgiven i augusti 1981 som singel från albumet Sons and Fascination. Den nådde 47:e plats på brittiska singellistan och 16:e plats på Sverigetopplistan. B-sidan This Earth That You Walk Upon är en instrumentallåt som senare spelades in i en ny version med sång till Sons and Fascination. (sv)
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  • This Earth That You Walk Upon (instrumental version)
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  • This Earth That You Walk Upon (en)
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  • Simple Minds Love Song Single.jpg (en)
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  • Love Song (en)
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  • "Sweat in Bullet" (en)
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  • "The American" (en)
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  • July 1981 (en)
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  • 1981-08-07 (xsd:date)
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  • single (en)
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  • Jim Kerr, Charlie Burchill, Derek Forbes, Brian McGee and Mick MacNeil (en)
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  • Love Song est une chanson du groupe de rock écossais Simple Minds sortie en single en août 1981, elle est extraite de l'album Sons and Fascination. C'est la première chanson du groupe à obtenir un succès commercial. Elle se hisse à la 47e place des charts britanniques mais fait mieux au Canada (38e), en Australie (17e) et en Suède (16e). En 1992, elle ressort légèrement remixée sur un single double face A avec Alive and Kicking afin de promouvoir la compilation Glittering Prize 81/92, et culmine à la 6e place au Royaume-Uni. (fr)
  • Love Song is een nummer van de Schotse band Simple Minds uit 1981, afkomstig van het album Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call. In 1992 werd een geremixte versie van het nummer uitgebracht voor het verzamelalbum Glittering Prize 81/92. De originele versie uit 1981 haalde in het Verenigd Koninkrijk de 47e positie. In Nederland deed het origineel niets in de hitlijsten. De versie uit 1992 werd een groter succes. In het Verenigd Koninkrijk bereikte deze versie de 6e positie, terwijl het in Nederland de 9e positie in de Tipparade behaalde. (nl)
  • Love Song è un singolo del gruppo musicale britannico Simple Minds pubblicato il 15 agosto 1981 come secondo estratto dall'album Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call. (it)
  • Love Song är en låt av den brittiska gruppen Simple Minds utgiven i augusti 1981 som singel från albumet Sons and Fascination. Den nådde 47:e plats på brittiska singellistan och 16:e plats på Sverigetopplistan. B-sidan This Earth That You Walk Upon är en instrumentallåt som senare spelades in i en ny version med sång till Sons and Fascination. (sv)
  • "Love Song" is the seventh single released by Scottish band Simple Minds. It was issued by Virgin Records in August 1981, one month before the release of its parent album Sons and Fascination. The B-side is an instrumental version of "This Earth That You Walk Upon", which later appeared on the album with newly-recorded vocals. Despite a sticker appearing on the 12" single promising an 'extended version', all 12" releases around the world featured the 5:04 album version. (en)
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  • Love Song (Simple Minds) (it)
  • Love Song (chanson des Simple Minds) (fr)
  • Love Song (Simple Minds song) (en)
  • Love Song (Simple Minds) (nl)
  • Love Song (sång av Simple Minds) (sv)
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