Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away

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"Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away"
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Single by Phil Collins
from the album Hello, I Must Be Going!
B-side
  • "Thunder and Lightning"
  • "And So to F" (Live version)
ReleasedMarch 1983
Recorded1982
Genre Soft rock
Length4:47
Label Virgin Records (UK)
Atlantic Records (International)
Songwriter(s) Phil Collins
Producer(s) Phil Collins, Hugh Padgham
Phil Collins singles chronology
"I Don't Care Anymore"
(1983)
"Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away"
(1983)
"I Cannot Believe It's True"
(1983)

No Way Out
(2004)

Don't Let Him Steal Your Heart Away
(2004)

(Love Is Like a) Heatwave
(2010)

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