By the close of 1978, Chic had been officially crowned disco royalty thanks to their hit Le Freak selling seven million copies and peaking at No.1 in the US. Now with an army of loyal subjects dancing the night away to their music in Studio 54, guitarist Nile Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards built on this commercial momentum with I Want Your Love, released as their follow-up single in January 1979.
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Up until this point, most of Chic’s singles had been about dancing, but I Want Your Love saw the group expand their focus. Featured on their second album, C’est Chic, the song upped the BPM but tackled desire and yearning for a lover from afar, mixing universal themes of forbidden romance into their cool-headed style of funk-lite licks. Still gleaming like an 18-carat medallion and always destined to become one of the best Chic songs, I Want Your Love emerged during the band’s disco gold-rush, and it has a rich story behind it.
“I dreamt the song’s arrangement in its entirety”
As if plucked from his inner subconscious, guitarist Nile Rodgers claimed that the melody to I Want Your Love originally came to him in a dream. “I dreamt the song’s arrangement in its entirety,” he said. A song of unrequited love, Rodgers awoke from his slumber and mapped out the whole arrangement on score paper by his bedside. The lyrics, however, were deeply personal to him. “The lyrics came from the fact that I was in love with a girl who was the best friend of my then current girlfriend,” the guitarist added.
Bringing the sheet music to the studio, Rodgers and bassist Bernard Edwards played the dreamy lament note-for-note and began to craft a lushly orchestrated drama to soundtrack the guitarist’s own sense of longing. Keen to establish their reputations as hitmakers-for-hire, Rodgers and Edwards initially intended for I Want Your Love to be released by Philadelphia girl group Sister Sledge – who would soon score a hit with the Rodgers-Edwards-penned We Are Family – but eventually decided it would be best served as a Chic single. Interestingly, however, the Sledge sisters allegedly did record vocal tracks for the song, and Kathy Sledge has claimed that you can just about hear their voices on the chorus.
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Bella I Want Your Love Your Love Part II
5:23Bella - I Want Your Love (Your Love...Part II)
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| A1 | I Want Your Love (Radio Version) | 4:48 | |
| A2 | I Want Your Love (Hyped Club Mix) | 4:50 | |
| B1 | I Want Your Love (House Jammie) | 7:00 | |
| B2 | I Want Your Love (Your Love...Part II) | 5:24 |
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A1, A2 and B1 are House versions of Chic - I Want Your Love , B2 is a Dub version of B1 with added explicit lyrics.
"I Want Your Love" is the third single from the English rock group Transvision Vamp, released in 1988 from their debut album Pop Art. It was the band's first UK top 40 hit, reaching number five in July 1988. It also peaked atop the Norwegian Singles Chart the same year and reached number one in South Africa the following year.
- Pop rock
- post-punk
- Duncan Bridgeman
- Zeus B. Held
| "Tell That Girl to Shut Up" (1988) |
"I Want Your Love" (1988) |
"Revolution Baby" (1988) |
7-inch vinyl (TVV 3)
- "I Want Your Love" – 3:20
- "Sweet Thing" – 3:45
- "Evolution Evie" (Acoustic Version) – 2:45
12-inch vinyl (TVVT 3)
- "I Want Your Love" (I Don't Want Your Money Mix) – 6:20
- "Sweet Thing" – 4:50
- "Evolution Evie" (Electric Version) – 2:51
CD single (DTVV 3)
- "I Want Your Love" (I Don't Want Your Money Mix) – 6:20
- "Sweet Thing" – 4:50
- "Evolution Evie" (Electric Version) – 2:51
- "Tell That Girl to Shut Up" – 3:05
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- Alternative dance
- pop
- Nick Christian Sayer
- Melissa Tkautz
| "Easily Affected" (2006) |
"I Want Your Love" (2008) |
"Something About You" (2012) |
Australian DJ/producer Nick Skitz re-recorded "I Want Your Love" featuring the vocals of Melissa Tkautz, released on 7 April 2008 through Destra Entertainment. It peaked at number 60 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart.
Track listing
- "Radio Mix"
- "Mark Rachelle Mix"
- "Disco Nexxion Remix"
- "Bohn & Kasten Remix"
- "Kamikaze Kid Remix"
- "Al Storm Remix"
Charts
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- ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
- ^ "Offiziellecharts.de – Transvision Vamp – I Want Your Love". GfK Entertainment charts. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
- ^ "Top 100 Singles: Year-End Chart 1988". Music Week. 4 March 1989. p. 12.
- ^ "The ARIA Australian Top 100 Singles Chart – 1989". ARIA. Retrieved 29 July 2022 – via Imgur.
- ^ "Issue 946" ARIA Top 100 Singles. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 16 September 2020.
- Worldwide releases
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