The Price of Love
1965 song by the Everly Brothers
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"The Price of Love" is a song by the Everly Brothers, released in 1965. It charted at No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 3 on the Irish Singles Chart. It spent one week at No. 1 on the UK's NME chart, but in the US, the song failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100.
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| Single by the Everly Brothers | ||||
| from the album In Our Image | ||||
| B-side | "It Only Costs a Dime" | |||
| Released | 1965 | |||
| Genre | Pop rock | |||
| Length | 2:23 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros. | |||
| Songwriter | Don Everly and Phil Everly | |||
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| "The Price of Love" (2006 remaster) on YouTube | ||||
Cash Box described it as "a raunchy, pulsating bluesy thumper which delineates the problems of a modern-day teenager romance."[1]
Chart performance
Bryan Ferry version
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| Single by Bryan Ferry | ||||
| from the album Let's Stick Together | ||||
| B-side | "Shame, Shame, Shame" | |||
| Released | July 1976 | |||
| Studio | AIR (London)[6] | |||
| Length | 3:13 | |||
| Label | Island | |||
| Songwriter | Don Everly and Phil Everly | |||
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| "The Price of Love" on YouTube | ||||
Bryan Ferry included a recording of the song on his album 1976 Let's Stick Together, and as the first track on the July 1976 EP Extended Play.[7] It reached No. 7 in the UK chart, peaked at No. 9 on the Australian Singles Chart and was the 69th biggest-selling single in Australia in 1976.[8]
Lead guitar was performed by Chris Spedding.[9]