"The Price of Love" is a song by the Everly Brothers, released in 1965. It charted at No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 3 on the Irish Singles Chart. It spent one week at Number 1 on the UK's NME chart, but in the US, the song failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
| "The Price of Love" | ||||
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| Single by The Everly Brothers | ||||
| from the album In Our Image | ||||
| B-side | "It Only Costs a Dime" | |||
| Released | 1965 | |||
| Genre | Pop rock | |||
| Length | 2:23 | |||
| Label | Warner Brothers 5628 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Don Everly and Phil Everly | |||
| The Everly Brothers singles chronology | ||||
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| Official audio | ||||
| The Price of Love (2006 Remaster) on YouTube | ||||
Cash Box described it as "a raunchy, pulsating bluesy thumper which delineates the problems of a modern-day teenager romance."[1]
Chart performance
edit| Chart (1965) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| United Kingdom (Record Retailer)[2] | 2 |
| United Kingdom (NME)[3] | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard [4] | 104
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Bryan Ferry version
edit| "The Price of Love" | ||||
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| Single by Bryan Ferry | ||||
| from the album Let's Stick Together | ||||
| B-side | "Shame, Shame, Shame" | |||
| Released | July 1976 | |||
| Recorded | 1973–76 | |||
| Studio | AIR (London) | |||
| Length | 3:13 | |||
| Label | Island | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Don Everly and Phil Everly | |||
| Producer(s) | Chris Thomas, Bryan Ferry | |||
| Bryan Ferry singles chronology | ||||
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| Official audio | ||||
| The Price of Love on YouTube | ||||
Bryan Ferry included a recording of the song on his album 1976 Let's Stick Together, and as the first track on the July 1976 EP Extended Play.[5] It reached No. 7 in the UK chart, peaked at No. 9 on the Australian Singles Chart and was the 69th biggest selling single in Australia in 1976.[6]
Lead guitar is by Chris Spedding.
References
edit- ^ "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. May 8, 1965. p. 12. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
- ^ "Artist Chart History Details: Everly Brothers". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 August 2010.
- ^ Rees, Dafydd; Lazell, Barry; Osborne, Roger (1995). Forty Years of "NME" Charts (2nd ed.). Pan Macmillan. p. 154. ISBN 0-7522-0829-2.
- ^ Joel Whitburn's Bubbling Under the Billboard Hot 100 1959-2004
- ^ Bryan Ferry EP on Discogs
- ^ "National Top 100 Singles for 1976". Kent Music Report. December 27, 1976. Retrieved January 15, 2022 – via Imgur.