Long Live Love (album) explained

Long Live Love
Type:studio
Artist:Olivia Newton-John
Cover:Long live love.jpg
Released:24 June 1974
Recorded:1973
Studio:Abbey Road and CSS, London[1]
Length:36:46
Label:EMI
Producer:John Farrar, Bruce Welch
Prev Title:Let Me Be There
Prev Year:1973
Next Title:If You Love Me, Let Me Know
Next Year:1974

Long Live Love is the fourth studio album by British-Australian singer Olivia Newton-John, released in June 1974 by EMI Records.

Singles

The title track was released in March 1974. Newton-John performed it at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest when she represented the UK. Along with the title track, five other tracks from the LP had been the six shortlisted songs for the UK selection for Eurovision, broadcast as A Song for Europe, 1974. The song that placed second, "Angel Eyes", was also released as the B-side of the "Long Live Love" single. (The other four songs were "Someday", "Loving You Ain't Easy", "Have Love, Will Travel", and "Hands Across the Sea".)

Track listing

Side one

  1. "Free the People" (Barbara Keith) – 3:20
  2. "Angel Eyes" (Tony Macaulay, Keith Potger) – 2:45
  3. "Country Girl" (Alan Hawkshaw, Peter Gosling) – 3:49
  4. "Someday" (Gary Benson, David Mindel) – 2:57
  5. "God Only Knows" (Brian Wilson, Tony Asher) – 2:48
  6. "Loving You Ain't Easy" (Stuart Leathwood, Bob Saker, Gary Sulsh) – 2:47

Side two

  1. "Home Ain't Home Anymore" (John Farrar, Peter Robinson) – 2:52
  2. "Have Love, Will Travel" (Roger Greenaway, Geoff Stephens) – 2:45
  3. "I Honestly Love You" (Peter Allen, Jeff Barry) – 3:38
  4. "Hands Across the Sea" (Ben Findon, Geoff Wilkins) – 2:55
  5. "The River's Too Wide" (Bob Morrison) – 3:16
  6. "Long Live Love" (Valerie Avon, Harold Spiro) – 2:46

Japanese bonus tracks

  1. "Mon Amour, Mon Impossible Amour" – 3:40
  2. "Long Live Love" (German version) – 2:48

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Olivia Newton-John - Long Live Love. Discogs. 2 October 2018.
  2. Book: Kent, David. Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book. St Ives, NSW. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 217.