This Love (Bad Company song)

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"This Love"
This Love (Bad Company).jpg
Single by Bad Company
from the album Fame and Fortune
B-side "Tell It Like It Is"
ReleasedOctober 1986 [1]
Genre Pop rock
Length4:21 (album version)
3:44 (radio edit)
Label Atlantic
Songwriter(s) Brian Howe, Christopher Fretwell
Producer(s) Keith Olsen
Bad Company singles chronology
"Electricland"
(1982)
"This Love"
(1986)
"That Girl"
(1986)

"This Love" is a song by English rock band Bad Company. The song was released as the lead single from the band's seventh studio album Fame and Fortune , the group's first single since reforming earlier that year with ex-Ted Nugent vocalist Brian Howe.

Contents

Music video

A music video was created for the song, showing the band performing the song on a stage. [2]

Track listing

7" single
Side A
No.TitleLength
1."This Love" (radio edit)3:44
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Tell It Like It Is"3:42
12" single
Side A
No.TitleLength
1."This Love" (radio edit)3:44
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."This Love" (LP version)4:21

Charts

Chart (1986)Peak
position
New Zealand [3] 12
Billboard Hot 100 [4] 85
Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs [5] 12

Personnel

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