Love Is Only a Feeling

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"Love Is Only a Feeling"
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Single by the Darkness
from the album Permission to Land
B-side
  • "Planning Permission"
  • "Curse of the Tollund Man"
Released22 March 2004 (2004-03-22)
Studio Chapel (Lincolnshire, England)
Genre Rock
Length4:20
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Pedro Ferreira
The Darkness singles chronology
"Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)"
(2003)
"Love Is Only a Feeling"
(2004)
"One Way Ticket"
(2005)

"Love Is Only a Feeling" is a song by British rock band the Darkness, released as the fifth and final single from their 2003 debut studio album, Permission to Land . The power ballad [1] peaked at number five on the UK Singles Chart.

Contents

Music video

The music video for the song was filmed at locations around the Blue Mountains of Australia, including a flat rock mesa that, since 2013, is now called Lincoln's Rock in Wentworth Falls; [2] the Devils Coachhouse, in Jenolan Caves; and Walls Lookout, off Bells Line of Road.

Track listings

  1. "Love is Only a Feeling"
  2. "Planning Permission"
  3. "Curse of the Tollund Man"
A. "Love is Only a Feeling"
B. "Planning Permission"
  1. "Love is Only a Feeling" (video)
  2. "Behind the Scenes" (video)
  3. "Get Your Hands Off My Woman" (live at the Astoria video)

Credits and personnel

Credits are taken from the Permission to Land album booklet. [7]

Studios

Personnel

Charts

Chart (2004)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [8] 35
Germany (Official German Charts) [9] 95
Ireland (IRMA) [10] 10
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [11] 92
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) [12] 22
Scotland (OCC) [13] 5
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) [14] 55
UK Singles (OCC) [15] 5
UK Indie (OCC) [16] 1
UK Rock & Metal (OCC) [17] 1

Release history

RegionDateFormat(s)Label(s)Ref.
United Kingdom22 March 2004
  • 7-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • DVD
[18]
Australia12 July 2004CD [19]

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