"Back Street Luv" | ||||
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Single by Curved Air | ||||
from the album Second Album | ||||
B-side | "Everdance" | |||
Released | July 1971 | |||
Genre | Art rock | |||
Length | 3:36 | |||
Label | Warner Bros | |||
Songwriter(s) | Ian Eyre, Sonja Kristina, Darryl Way | |||
Producer(s) | Colin Caldwell, Curved Air | |||
Curved Air singles chronology | ||||
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Performance video | ||||
"Back Street Luv" on BeatClub on YouTube |
"Back Street Luv" is a song by British rock band Curved Air, written by band members Ian Eyre, Sonja Kristina and Darryl Way. It was included on the Second Album and released as a single in July 1971 by Warner Bros. [1] It reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart on 18 September. [2] Warners also released it as a single in the Netherlands, Germany, France and Portugal. In 1975 a live version appeared on Curved Air – Live and was released as a single in the UK by Deram, but it failed to make any commercial impact. [1] [3]
Rock music critic Dave Thompson called the song "one of the band's own finest moments" and "also one of the crucial singles of the early 1970s". [4]
In 1997, Salad covered the song on the Childline charity album. [5]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Back Street Luv" | 3:36 |
2. | "Everdance" | 3:06 |
( Darryl Way, though the chief writer of the song's music, does not play on the original recording.)