"Where Has Love Gone?" is a 1990 single from former Frankie Goes to Hollywood singer Holly Johnson. It was released as the lead single from the 1991 album Dreams That Money Can't Buy.

The song was written solely by Johnson and produced by Andy Richards.

Released as the lead single from the Dreams That Money Can't Buy album, the single only peaked at #73 in the UK for a total of two weeks. Around the time of the release, Johnson's relations with MCA had declined after Johnson had discovered that no promotion budget has been set for his new album.

The song contains backing vocals from both Don Snow and Stevie Lange.

The single was released on 7" vinyl, 12" vinyl, CD and cassette in 1990 across the UK and Germany. The single was released entirely through MCA Records.

The 7" vinyl and cassette versions of the single featured the a-side along with the b-side "Perfume (Aromatherapy Mix)". The 12" vinyl replaced the a-side with the Julian Mendelsohn remix "Where Has Love Gone (The Search For Love Mix)". A remixed 12" vinyl was also released in the UK only, featuring two remixes by G.T.O., which was "Where Has Love Gone? (G.T.O. Mix)" and "Where Has Love Gone? (Dreaming Mix)". This release featured altered artwork, whilst still maintaining the basis of the main artwork's design. The CD version featured the album/7" vinyl version of the a-side, the b-side and the "Where Has Love Gone (The Search For Love Mix)".

The single's b-side "Perfume (Aromatherapy Mix)" had originally appeared on the 1989 remix album Hollelujah.

A music video was created for the single, which featured shots of Johnson performing the song, amongst other clips of various characters and scenes, mainly focusing on different scenes in a playground-like area, with the scene focusing on one or two children each time.

The video was aired on MTV.

The song was also performed along with the 1989 hit song "Americanos" at the Diamond Record Awards in 1991, where Johnson received a Diamond Record award for "Americanos". For his performance, Johnson wore the same outfit as from the "Where Has Love Gone" music video. The Diamond Record award was for the sale of ten million units of the single through legal distribution sources.

Jon O'Brien of Allmusic spoke of the song in a review of the Dreams That Money Can't Buy album, stating "Packed full of cultural and literary references, Johnson may be under the impression he's creating a piece of pop art, but in reality, the album's ten tracks are more Rolf Harris than Andy Warhol. Not exactly helped by Andy Richards and Dan Hartman's game show theme-style production, all synthetic brass, spacy bleeps, and tinny beats, the likes of "Where Has Love Gone?" and "Do It for Love" sound like Erasure B-sides."

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