| The Price of Love | |
| Cover: | The_Price_of_Love_Everly_Brothers.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | The Everly Brothers |
| Album: | In Our Image |
| B-Side: | It Only Costs a Dime |
| Released: | 1965 |
| Genre: | Pop rock |
| Label: | Warner Brothers 5628 |
| Prev Title: | That'll Be the Day |
| Prev Year: | 1965 |
| Next Title: | I'll Never Get Over You |
| Next Year: | 1965 |
"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.
Cash Box described it as "a raunchy, pulsating bluesy thumper which delineates the problems of a modern-day teenager romance."[1]
| The Price of Love | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Bryan Ferry |
| Album: | Let's Stick Together |
| B-Side: | Shame, Shame, Shame |
| Released: | July 1976 |
| Recorded: | 1973–76 |
| Studio: | AIR (London) |
| Length: | 3:13 |
| Label: | Island |
| Producer: | Chris Thomas, Bryan Ferry |
| Prev Title: | Let's Stick Together |
| Prev Year: | 1976 |
| Next Title: | This Is Tomorrow |
| Next Year: | 1977 |
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.[2] 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.[3]
The song was recorded and released by the British Rock band Status Quo in 1969.[4] It was released on the same day as the album Spare Parts, but was not included on it, and it failed to chart. Bob Young is featured on harmonica, The band re-recorded it in 1991 for inclusion on the album, Rock 'til You Drop.
Poco recorded the song in 1982, on their album Cowboys & Englishmen.[5]
British duo Robson & Jerome included a version on their 1997 album Take Two, which reached No. 1 in the UK.
In 2021 Robert Plant and Alison Krauss also covered the song, as a duet, on their second album Raise the Roof.
| Chart (1965) | Peak position | |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom (Record Retailer)[6] | 2 | |
| United Kingdom (NME)[7] | 1 | |
| U.S. Billboard [8] |