Light (Music for Pleasure song)

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"Light"
Music for Pleasure - Light.jpg
Single by Music for Pleasure
from the album Into the Rain
Released1982
Genre New wave
Label Polydor
Songwriter(s) Mark Copson, Christopher Oldroyd, Ivor Roberts and David Whitaker
Producer(s) Mike Hedges/Music for Pleasure
Music for Pleasure singles chronology
"Switchback"
(1982)
"Light"
(1982)
"Time"
(1983)

"Light" is a single by Music for Pleasure and was released in 1982. [1]

Contents

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Mark Copson, Christopher Oldroyd, Ivor Roberts and David Whitaker.

Polydor 7" Single: POSP 533

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Light"3:39
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Malefice" 

Polydor 12" Single: POSPX 533

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."Light (Extended Version)"6:12
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Nostalgia"3:22

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. "Music For Pleasure - Light". Discogs . Retrieved 26 August 2010.