| "When Love Breaks Down" | ||||
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 Artwork for 1985 UK reissue (7-inch vinyl edition pictured) | ||||
| Single by Prefab Sprout | ||||
| from the album Steve McQueen | ||||
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| Released | 1984 (first release) 1985 (reissue) 2007 (acoustic version) | |||
| Recorded | 1984, RAK Studios, London | |||
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| Length | 3:40(single edit) 4:08 (UK Steve McQueen album version) 3:44 (US Two Wheels Good version) | |||
| Label | Kitchenware | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Paddy McAloon | |||
| Producer(s) | Phil Thornalley | |||
| Prefab Sprout singles chronology | ||||
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"When Love Breaks Down" is a single by English pop band Prefab Sprout, first released by Kitchenware Records in October 1984. It was the first single taken from their album of the following year, Steve McQueen . In its first release, the single did not chart on the UK Singles Chart, but a reissue the following year in 1985 reached No. 25. [4] The song was also the group's first chart appearance in the United States, peaking at No. 42 on the Billboard Top Rock Tracks chart in October 1985. [5]
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"When Love Breaks Down" was recorded and mixed at RAK Studios, London. The song was re-released in March 2007, this time with an entirely new acoustic arrangement, recorded in 2006 by frontman Paddy McAloon to coincide with the two-disc Legacy Edition of Steve McQueen. [6]
The B-side to the original single release was "Diana", which would later be re-recorded and included on the album Protest Songs (which was originally going to be released after Steve McQueen but was shelved until 1989).
