Love Rendezvous

"Love Rendezvous"
Single by M People
from the album Bizarre Fruit II
B-side	Remixes
Released	2 October 1995
Format	12" maxi CD single, cassette
Genre	House
Length	3:51
Label	Deconstruction
Writer(s)	Mike Pickering, Paul Heard
Producer(s)	M People
M People singles chronology
"Search for the Hero" (1995) "Love Rendezvous" (1995) "Itchycoo Park" (1995)
Alternative cover CD2 cover of "Love Rendezvous".

"Love Rendezvous" is the fourth single from the album Bizarre Fruit/Bizarre Fruit II by British band M People. Written by Mike Pickering and Paul Heard and Heather Small and produced by M People, it was released on 14 October 1995 after the band's world tour. The song peaked at number thirty two on the UK Singles Chart.

Since the release of "Search for the Hero" four months previously, the band had relentlessly continued a world tour, played to sell-out Summer festivals in the UK, Belgium and Sweden. They then created a new radio and master mix for "Love Rendezvous", the fourth single from the album and a new track (the band's live favourite), a cover of The Small Faces' "Itchycoo Park". Like "Search for the Hero", the band re-edited the funky Bizarre Fruit version of "Love Rendezvous" to create a more radio-friendly pop version with the additional trademark sax ad-lib. This would delay the release of the single, which was originally planned for a released on 18 September 1995 but pushed back two weeks. This gave them time to prepare for a re-release of the already double platinum album to a deluxe edition called Bizarre Fruit II, which would feature the same tracks as before, new artwork and the new radio edit of "Search for the Hero" and the new master mixes of "Love Rendezvous" and "Itchycoo Park" as well as an additional second Live and Remixed CD.

The new version of the song became part of M People's signature dance sound and was more typical of their sound in contrast to the softer more serious side of the band as heard on "Search for the Hero"; dancey piano chords, house beats and layers of synths. Lyrically, Heather sings about the arranged meeting with a lover away from everything else. She also namechecks singers Patti Smith ("Patti sang horses") and Stevie Wonder ("Stevie got uptight").

The newer version of this single also features a funky saxophone break in the middle-eight and also during the choruses. What remains from the original are the underlying keyboard sequences in the bridges up to the choruses. The backing vocals use the insistent refrain "Uptight, outta sight" as mentioned on Stevie Wonder's 1966 song "Uptight (Everything's Alright)", adding to the song's spirit of fun.