Love Is Like Oxygen

"Love Is Like Oxygen"
Single by Sweet
from the album Level Headed
B-side "Cover Girl"
Released January 1978 (1978-01)
Format 7"
Recorded 1977
Genre
Length
  • 6:57 (album version)
  • 3:46 (single version)
Label
Writer(s)
Producer(s) Sweet
Sweet singles chronology
"Stairway to the Stars"
(1977)		 "Love Is Like Oxygen"
(1978)		 "California Nights"
(1978)
"Love Is Like Oxygen"
France single
"Love Is Like Oxygen"
Netherlands single

"Love Is Like Oxygen" is a song by the British band Sweet, co-written by the group's guitarist Andy Scott and Trevor Griffin, a musician who had played with various unsuccessful bands before becoming a roadie and sound engineer, and released in January 1978. The song was a departure from earlier recordings by the Sweet, which were more guitar-driven and featured high vocal harmonies. The extended album version of the song (6 minutes 19 seconds), which appeared on their album Level Headed, incorporates strings and has some disco elements.

Their first release on the Polydor label after their departure from RCA, it was also their last Top 10 hit, reaching #4 in New Zealand, #6 in Switzerland, #8 in Belgium, Canada and the United States, #9 in United Kingdom and #10 in West Germany.

Later that year it was honoured with a Song of the Year nomination at the Ivor Novello Awards, although beaten by "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty. The song is frequently included on greatest hits compilations, usually in its edited single version.

Chart performance

Weekly singles charts

Chart (1978) Peak
position
Australia 9
Austria 23
Belgium 8
Canada 8
Finland 7
West Germany [4] 10
Ireland 8
Netherlands 16
New Zealand 4
Switzerland 6
UK 9
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [5] 8
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock

Year-end charts

Chart (1978) Rank
Australia [6] 55
Canada [7] 63
New Zealand [8] 29
UK [9] 94
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [10] 23

References

  1. ↑ Thompson, Dave. Song Review by Dave Thompson at AllMusic. Retrieved 12 March 2016.
  2. ↑ Don Breithaupt (15 May 2007). Steely Dan's Aja. A & C Black. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-8264-2783-0.
  3. ↑ Kim Cooper; David Smay (2001). Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth. Feral House. p. 299. ISBN 978-0-922915-69-9.
  4. ↑ http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Sweet/24734/single
  5. ↑ [Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-2002]
  6. ↑ David Kent's "Australian Chart Book 1970-1992"
  7. ↑ http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.0070a&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.0070a.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.0070a
  8. ↑ http://nztop40.co.nz/chart/?chart=3867
  9. ↑ http://www.uk-charts.top-source.info/top-100-1978.shtml
  10. ↑ http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1978.htm
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