Forget About Love

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"Forget About Love"
Song by Eddie Money
from the album Nothing to Lose
Released1989
Length4:42
Label Columbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Richie Zito
  • Eddie Money

"Forget About Love" is a song by American singer-songwriter Eddie Money, which was released in 1989 as a track on his seventh studio album Nothing to Lose . It was written by Money, Richie Zito, Tom Whitlock and Todd Cerney, and produced by Zito and Money. The song reached No. 36 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. [1]

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Background

"Forget About Love" was inspired by Money's separation from his first wife, Margo Lee Walker, and having a daughter with his new fiancée, Laurie Harris, in 1988. He told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1988, "I still love my wife, but I wanted a baby. Now I have one, and she's beautiful – it's just unfortunate my wife didn't have her. 'Forget About Love' [is] about that, how it came down. I'm happy with the baby, but I miss my wife." [2] He added in an interview with the Scripps Howard News Service in 1989, "I wrote 'Forget About Love' as if she was singing it to me." [3]

Critical reception

In a review of Nothing to Lose, Steve Persall of the Tampa Bay Times noted, "Money's best outlook on love is when he plays the tough romantic on [songs such as] 'Forget About Love'." He felt the song had a "solid hook" and "entertaining arrangement". [4] Kevin Connal of The Boston Globe described it as "an incessant rock song with a melodic surge of keyboards chiming out". [5]

Personnel

Production

Charts

Chart (1989)Peak
position
US Billboard Album Rock Tracks 36

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References

  1. "Forget About Love Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
  2. Madden, Mark (December 10, 1988). "Eddie Money quiets his rock 'n' roll image". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 23.
  3. Mitchell, Justin (March 30, 1989). "Another rocker living straight life after drugs and alcohol". Waterloo Courier . p. C4.
  4. Persall, Steve (October 30, 1989). "Money tries his best, but words fail him". Tampa Bay Times. p. 2F.
  5. Connal, Kevin (October 20, 1989). "Recordings". The Boston Globe.