Life Support (Air Supply album)

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Life Support
Life Support (album) cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 1979
Recorded1978
StudioTrafalgar Studios, Sydney
Genre Soft rock
Length40:24
Label Sony
Producer Charles Fisher
Air Supply chronology
Love & Other Bruises
(1977)
Life Support
(1979)
Lost in Love
(1980)
Singles from Life Support
  1. "Lost in Love"
    Released: January 1980

Life Support is the fourth studio album by Australian soft rock band Air Supply, released in 1979. The album contains the original version of the later hit single "Lost in Love", which peaked at number one on Australian charts. "Just Another Woman" would also be re-released on the album Lost in Love . The album was reissued on CD in 1996 with a new cover.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are written by Graham Russell.

  1. "Give Me Love" (4:07)
  2. "Looking Out for Something Outside" (4:05)
  3. "Lost in Love" (5:34)
  4. "I Just Like the Feeling" (4:18)
  5. "More Than Natural" (4:24)
  6. "Just Another Woman" (3:38)
  7. "Bring Out the Magic" (3:51)
  8. "I Don't Want to Lose You" (4:09)
  9. "Believe in the Supernatural" (6:14)

Personnel

Air Supply
Additional Personnel

Charts

Chart (1979)Peak
position
Australian (Kent Music Report) [1] 27

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References

  1. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 13. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.