Love (John Lennon song)
| "Love" | |
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| Song by John Lennon | |
| from the album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band | |
| Released | 11 December 1970 |
| Recorded | 26 September – 23 October 1970 |
| Genre | Soft rock |
| Length | 3:24 |
| Label | Apple |
| Songwriter(s) | John Lennon |
| Producer(s) | John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Phil Spector |
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| Single by John Lennon | ||||
| B-side | "Gimme Some Truth" | |||
| Released | 15 November 1982 | |||
| Format | 45 | |||
| Recorded | 1970 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 3:24 | |||
| Label | Apple/Geffen | |||
| Songwriter(s) | John Lennon | |||
| Producer(s) | Phil Spector, John Lennon, and Yoko Ono | |||
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| Single by The Dream Academy | ||||
| from the album A Different Kind of Weather | ||||
| Released | 1990 (UK) 1991 (USA) |
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| Format | CD | |||
| Recorded | 1990 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 3:42 | |||
| Label | Reprise/Blanco Y Negro | |||
| Songwriter(s) | John Lennon | |||
| Producer(s) | Gilbert Gabriel, Nick Laird-Clowes and Steve Lambert | |||
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"Love" is a song written and performed by John Lennon, originally released in 1970 on the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album. The song's theme is happier than most of the songs on Plastic Ono Band.
The song first came out on Lennon's 1970 album John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. Lennon considered releasing it as a single, but was dropped in favor of "Mother". However, "Love" received considerable airplay at the time from stations who hesitated at playing "Mother". "Love" later appeared on the 1982 compilation The John Lennon Collection, and was released as a promotional tie-in single for the collection. The single version is a remix of the original track, which most notably differs in having the piano intro and outro (played by Phil Spector) mixed at the same volume as the rest of the song; on the original album version, these parts begin much quieter and increase in volume. B-side was "Gimme Some Truth", but labelled as "Give Me Some Truth".
An alternate take of the song appears on the John Lennon Anthology box set as well as the Acoustic album.
The picture on the sleeve for 1982 release of "Love" was taken by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz on 8 December 1980—the very day of Lennon's murder.
Like the 1982 British issue, the original version of the song was released as a single again in October 1998 for the Japanese market only with the Japanese edition of another compilation Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon, and gained moderate success on Japan's Oricon chart.
The song was also used as Lennon's entry on the iTunes exclusive 4-track Beatles EP 4: John Paul George Ringo, released in 2014.
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