"Love Story" | ||||
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![]() Picture sleeve (Fontana, Germany) | ||||
Single by Jethro Tull | ||||
B-side | "Christmas Song" | |||
Released | 29 November 1968 [1] [2] | |||
Recorded | 30 October 1968 [3] | |||
Studio | Morgan Studios, London, UK [3] | |||
Genre | Blues rock, hard rock | |||
Length | 3:02 | |||
Label | Island WIP 6048 [4] Fontana Reprise | |||
Songwriter(s) | Ian Anderson | |||
Producer(s) | Ian Anderson, Terry Ellis | |||
Jethro Tull singles chronology | ||||
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"Love Story" is the third single by British rock band Jethro Tull. It was released in late November 1968. [4] It reached No. 29 on the UK Singles Chart in January 1969, spending eight weeks on that chart. [5]
The original UK single was released on 29 November 1968 with the B-side "Christmas Song". [2] In the U.S., "Love Story" was released on 12 February 1969, [6] with "A Song for Jeffrey" on the B-side. [4] Record World said that the band "[lays] down a hard beat." [7] "Love Story" and "Christmas Song" did not appear on an album until the 1972 compilation Living in the Past , but "A Song for Jeffrey" did appear on the band's first album, This Was (1968).