Is There Any Love in Your Heart

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"Is There Any Love in Your Heart"
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Single by Lenny Kravitz
from the album Are You Gonna Go My Way
B-side
  • "Always on the Run" (live)
  • "Freedom Train" (live)
  • "What Goes Around Comes Around" (live)
  • "Black Girl"
ReleasedNovember 22, 1993 (1993-11-22)
Genre Rock
Length3:39
Label Virgin
Composer(s)
Lyricist(s) Lenny Kravitz
Producer(s) Lenny Kravitz
Lenny Kravitz singles chronology
"The Buddha of Suburbia"
(1993)		"Is There Any Love in Your Heart"
(1993)		"Deuce"
(1994)
Music video
"Is There Any Love in Your Heart" on YouTube

"Is There Any Love in Your Heart" is a song by American singer Lenny Kravitz and released on November 22, 1993, as the fourth single from his third studio album, Are You Gonna Go My Way (1993). Following its release, the song reached the top 50 in Australia and New Zealand and peaked at number 19 on the US Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. The song was later included on the Japanese edition of Kravitz' 2000 compilation album, Greatest Hits . The music video was directed by Mark Romanek and features Canadian model Ève Salvail playing a vampire. [1]

Contents

Reception

James E. Perone in The Album: A Guide to Pop Music's Most Provocative, Influential, and Important Creations stated, "The Kravitz and Craig Ross collaboration 'Is There Any Love in Your Heart' re-creates the style of late 1960s' and early 1970s hard rock." [2] Alan Sculley of The Crisis noted, "There is one particularly acidic track directed to gold diggers attracted by his celebrity status, "Is There Any Love in Your Heart." [3]

Track listings

All tracks are written by Lenny Kravitz. Additional writers are noted below

UK CD single [4]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Is There Any Love in Your Heart" Craig Ross 3:39
2."Always on the Run" (live) Slash 7:58
3."Freedom Train" (live) 2:41
4."What Goes Around Comes Around" (live) 10:29
UK 12-inch single [5]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Is There Any Love in Your Heart"Ross3:39
2."Black Girl" 3:44
3."What Goes Around Comes Around" (live) 12:35
UK 7-inch and cassette single; Japanese mini-CD single [6] [7] [8]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Is There Any Love in Your Heart"Ross3:39
2."Black Girl" 3:44
European CD single [9]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Is There Any Love in Your Heart"Ross3:39
2."Always on the Run" (live)Slash3:44
Australian CD single [10]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Is There Any Love in Your Heart"Ross 
2."Spinning Around Over You"Ross 
3."Freedom Train" (live)  
4."Always on the Run" (live)Slash 
5."Stop Draggin' Around" (live)  
Japanese mini-album [11]
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Is There Any Love in Your Heart"Ross 
2."All I Ever Wanted" Sean Lennon Ono  
3."More Than Anything in This World"  
4."Spinning Around Over You"Ross 
5."Stop Draggin' Around" (live)  
6."My Precious Love" (live)  
7."Always on the Run" (live)Slash 
8."Believe" (live) Henry Hirsch  

Charts

Chart (1993–1994)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [12] 32
Canada Top Singles ( RPM ) [13] 53
Japan (Oricon) [14] 27
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [15] 50
UK Singles (OCC) [16] 52
US Mainstream Rock ( Billboard ) [17] 19

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United KingdomNovember 22, 1993
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
 Virgin [18]
November 29, 19937-inch vinyl [19]
JapanJanuary 12, 1994Mini-CD [20]
February 16, 1994Mini-album [14]

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  2. ↑ Perone, James E. (October 17, 2012). The Album: A Guide to Pop Music's Most Provocative, Influential, and Important Creations [4 volumes]: A Guide to Pop Music's Most Provocative, Influential, and Important Creations. ABC-CLIO. ISBN   978-0-313-37907-9 . Retrieved July 13, 2021.
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  4. ↑ Is There Any Love in Your Heart (UK CD single disc notes). Lenny Kravitz. Virgin Records. 1993. VUSDG 76, 7243 8 92230 2 6.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  5. ↑ Is There Any Love in Your Heart (UK 12-inch single vinyl disc). Lenny Kravitz. Virgin Records. 1993. VUST 76, 7243 8 92230 6 4.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  6. ↑ Is There Any Love in Your Heart (UK 7-inch picture disc). Lenny Kravitz. Virgin Records. 1993. VUSP 76.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  7. ↑ Is There Any Love in Your Heart (UK cassette single sleeve). Lenny Kravitz. Virgin Records. 1993. VUSC 76.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  8. ↑ Is There Any Love in Your Heart (Japanese mini-CD single liner notes). Lenny Kravitz. Virgin Records. 1994. VJDP-10216.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  9. ↑ Is There Any Love in Your Heart (European CD single liner notes). Lenny Kravitz. Virgin Records. 1993. VUSCE 76, 7243 8 92227 2 2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  10. ↑ Is There Any Love in Your Heart (Australian CD single liner notes). Lenny Kravitz. Virgin Records. 1993. 8922802.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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