Slave to Love explained

Slave to Love
Cover:	Slave To Love.jpg
Type:	single
Artist:	Bryan Ferry
Album:	Boys and Girls
Released:	3 May 1985^[1]
Genre:	Sophisti-pop
Length:	3:59 (7" mix) 5:56 (12" extended mix) 4:26 (album version)
Label:	E.G.
Producer:	Bryan Ferry Rhett Davies
Prev Title:	That's How Strong My Love Is
Prev Year:	1978
Next Title:	Don't Stop the Dance
Next Year:	1985

"Slave to Love" is the first single released from Roxy Music singer Bryan Ferry's sixth solo studio album, Boys and Girls (1985). The song is one of Ferry's most popular solo hits. The single was released on 3 May 1985 and spent nine weeks in the UK Singles Chart in 1985, peaking at number 10. Over two months later he would perform the song at Live Aid in the London concert at Wembley Stadium.

The song features Neil Hubbard and Keith Scott on lead guitar,^[2] Dire Straits' Guy Fletcher on keyboards, Omar Hakim on drums, and Tony Levin on bass guitar.

Music video

A promo video directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino and featuring the Swedish model Christine Bergström, the French model Laurence Treil, the Dutch model Marpessa Hennink, Jillian King, Fabrice Langlade, Olivier Poivre and Richard Teophile was shot to promote the single. The cinematographer was Pascal Lebegue.

Track listing

• 7"

1. "Slave to Love"
2. "Valentine" (instrumental)

• 12" UK single: E.G. Records / FERRx 1 881873-1

1. "Slave to Love" (special 12" re-mix) – 5:56
2. "Slave to Love" (instrumental) – 4:23
3. "Valentine" (instrumental) – 4:00

Charts

Chart (1985)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[3]	29
Italy (Musica e dischi)^[4]	9
US Bubbling Under Hot 100 (Billboard)^[5]	109

Use in media

• The song appears in the Miami Vice episode "Junk Love" which aired on November 8, 1985.
• The song was used in series 17 of Silent Witness.^[6]
• The song was used in a scene of the TV show Pose, Season 1, Episode 2.
• The song was used in a scene of the TV show Prodigal Son, Season 2, Episode 9.
• The song was used in the show American Horror Story season 4 episode 5.
• The song was used in Legion, season 2 episode 6.
• The song appears in the film Fire with Fire (1986) where Lisa (Virginia Madsen) dances to it with Joe (Craig Sheffer).
• The song appears on the soundtrack to the film 9½ Weeks (1986).
• The song appears in the film Bitter Moon (1992) where Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner) dances to it with Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas) at the New Year's Eve Ball scene aboard the cruise ship.
• The song appears in the film Exit to Eden (1994).
• The song was used in the film Abduction (2011).
• The song was used in the film (2014).

Notes and References

1. Web site: Music Week. 14.
2. Web site: Roxy Music - Songs . Vivaroxymusic.com. 7 June 2023.
3. Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6.
4. Web site: Classifiche. Musica e dischi. it. Set "Tipo" on "Singoli". Then, in the "Artista" field, search "Bryan Ferry".
5. Bubbling Under. Billboard. 72. 15 June 1985. 5 June 2022.
6. Web site: Series 17, In a Lonely Place Episode 2 of 2 . BBC . 2019-01-17.