Separate Lives

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"Separate Lives"
Separate Lives by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin UK vinyl handwriting.png
UK picture sleeve
Single by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin
from the album White Nights: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
B-side "I Don't Wanna Know" (USA) "Only You Know And I Know" (UK)
ReleasedSeptember 1985 (US)
11 November 1985 (UK) [1]
Recorded1985
Genre Soft rock [2]
Length4:06
Label
Songwriter(s) Stephen Bishop
Producer(s)
Phil Collins singles chronology
"Take Me Home"
(1985)
"Separate Lives"
(1985)
"In the Air Tonight (Remix)"
(1988)
Marilyn Martinsingles chronology
"Separate Lives"
(1985)
"Night Moves"
(1986)

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