"(I Believe) Love's a Prima Donna" is a song by British rock band Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, released as the second single from their 1976 album Love's a Prima Donna. The song was written and produced by Harley. It would be the band's last charting single before the band's split in 1977.

Following the UK Top 10 success of the single "Here Comes the Sun" during Summer 1976, "(I Believe) Love's a Prima Donna" was chosen as the second single from Love's a Prima Donna. Released in October, the single peaked at #41 on the UK Singles Chart, lasting within the Top 50 for four weeks. The song had originally debuted at #48 in early November 1976.

Like the entire Love's a Prima Donna album, the song was recorded at Abbey Road Studios at some point during sessions between June and September 1976.

The single was released by EMI Records on 7" vinyl in the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium and Japan. The single featured the exclusive B-Side "Sidetrack 1" which was written and produced by Harley. It has remained exclusive to the single ever since. In the UK, two almost-identical editions of the single were released. One titled the B-Side simple as "Sidetrack 1", while the other titled it "Sidetrack 1 (Group Version)". The follow-up "Sidetrack 2" appeared as an album track on Love's a Prima Donna.

The UK release featured no artwork and used a generic sleeve instead, however the other releases featured picture sleeves. The Netherlands sleeve featured a photograph of the entire band, using black and light red as the only colours. The German release featured a close-up shot of Harley in front of a microphone on stage, while the Belgian release had no photograph, using the band's name and song title as large text with a blue background instead. The Japanese release featured the same artwork as the Love's a Prima Donna album. All sleeves of the single listed the song as being titled "Love is a Prima Donna", although the actual vinyl used the song's full title.

Following its original release as a single and on Love's a Prima Donna, the song has since appeared on the 1987 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel compilation Greatest Hits, and the 2006 compilation The Cockney Rebel – A Steve Harley Anthology.

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