Love & Pride
| "Love & Pride" | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Single by King | ||||
| from the album Steps in Time | ||||
| Released | April 1984 | |||
| Format | 12", 7" | |||
| Recorded | 1984 | |||
| Genre | New wave, synthpop | |||
| Length | 3:20 | |||
| Label | CBS Records | |||
| Producer(s) | Richard James Burgess | |||
| King singles chronology | ||||
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"Love & Pride" is the debut single by Coventry band King, produced by Richard James Burgess from their first studio album Steps in Time (1984). It was released in August 1984 and reached a chart ranking of #84 on the UK Singles Chart in May. When the group performed the song on Saturday morning television towards the end of the year, the single was re-released and became a hit in early 1985, reaching number two in the charts for three consecutive weeks and only being held off the top spot by "I Know Him So Well", a duet by Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson for the musical Chess. It later climbed to a peak of number 55 in the US Billboard Hot 100 in August 1985. Richard James Burgess remixed the single several times for B-sides and 12 inch versions and these fueled the international club success of the single and subsequent album, Steps in Time. The dance mixes of "Love & Pride" pushed it to a peak position of seventeen on the American dance charts.[1] In this song a Prophet 5 synthesizer is used.
British electronic band Cicada sampled portions of this song on their song "Woh" off their 2011 album Sunburst.
Chart performance
| Chart (1985) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Kent Music Report | 8 |
| Austrian Singles Chart | 21 |
| Belgian Singles Chart | 3 |
| Dutch Top 40 | 2 |
| German Singles Chart | 8 |
| Irish Singles Chart | 3 |
| New Zealand Singles Chart | 24 |
| Swiss Singles Chart | 3 |
| UK Singles Chart | 2 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 55 |
Track listing
- 7" single
- Side A: "Love & Pride" (3:20)
- Side B: "Don't Stop" (4:15)
References
- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 145.