Love... The Album

Infobox Album | Name = Love... The Album
Type = Album
Artist = Cliff Richard


Released = 12 November 2007
Recorded = 1963-2007
Genre = Pop, Easy listening
Length = 57:50 (CD version), 56:45 (Digital download version)
Label = EMI
Producer = Michael Omartian, Norrie Paramor, Bruce Welch, Cliff Richard, Richard Hewson, Craig Pruess, Monroe Jones, Paul Moessi, Alan Tarney
Reviews =
Last album = "Two's Company"
(2006)
This album = "Love... The Album"
(2007)
Next album = "And They Said It Wouldn't Last (My 50 Years In Music)"
(2008)
Misc = Singles
Name = Love... The Album
Type = Studio
single 1 = When I Need You
single 1 date = 29 October 2007

Love... The Album is the 78th studio album by British singer Cliff Richard, released by EMI on 12 November, 2007 in the UK. This album was primarily produced by Michael Omartian. It reached #13 in the UK Albums Chart and has currently been in the charts for 5 weeks.

There are two versions of this album, the CD version and the digital download version. The difference is on track 12, the CD version is "For Life" whilst the digital download version is "My Pretty One".

The single that was released from this album was "When I Need You" which reached #38 in the UK Singles Chart.

New songs

The five new tracks from this album are cover songs, these are:

# "Waiting for a Girl Like You", originally released by Foreigner
# "If You're Not The One", originally released by Daniel Bedingfield
# "When I Need You", originally released by Leo Sayer
# "When You Say Nothing at All", originally released by Keith Whitley
# "All Out of Love", originally released by Air Supply

Fans have control over album costs

On 30 October, 2007, before releasing the CD version of "Love... the Album", EMI and the Cliff Richard Organisation decided that for 2 weeks, if there is a high enough demand for the digital download version of the album (which was 400 copies), then the price will drop from £7.99 to £3.99. For each album being downloaded, the price of the album drops by 1 pence. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7069262.stm BBC News - Cliff fans 'control album cost'] ]

During the two week period, Richard quoted:

On 8 November, 2007, it was announced that the £3.99 price tag for the album has been secured and that all people who have downloaded it during the two week period would all pay £3.99 instead of the original price. All copies downloaded contributed to the first week of the UK Albums Chart. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/7085341.stm BBC News - Sir Cliff fans secure £3.99 album] ]

Track listing

CD version EMI 5093702

tudio or Compilation album?

Fans have been divided into whether this album was a studio or compilation album as 10 of the 15 tracks were previously released from Cliff Richard from other albums. On 5 December 2007, Cliff admitted on The Paul O'Grady Show that it was "unfair" to release the same music more than once.

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