Have You Ever Been in Love (album)

Have You Ever Been in Love is the tenth studio album by recording artist Leo Sayer. It was originally released in November 1983 by Chrysalis (UK), and Warner Bros. (US) as the follow-up to his ninth album World Radio (1982). It was co-produced by the Grammy Award-winning Arif Mardin, in association with Alan Tarney, and Christopher Neil producing the other tracks. Sayer is credited as co-writer on the tracks "Don't Wait Until Tomorrow", and "Orchard Road".

Have You Ever Been in Love
Studio album by
Leo Sayer
ReleasedNovember 1983
Genre
Label
Producer
Leo Sayer chronology
World Radio
(1982)		 Have You Ever Been in Love
(1983)		 Cool Touch
(1990)

The album reached no.15 on the UK Albums Chart.,[1] making it (including the greatest hits compilation album, The Very Best of Leo Sayer) his eleventh successive Top 50 chart entry in the UK Albums Chart, in a period of a little over nine years. The album spawned three singles which first two reached the top sixty on the UK Singles Chart, including "Orchard Road", which would become one of Sayer's most popular songs, this would also become the last Sayer single to make the Top 20, peaking at number 16 and spending nine weeks on the chart.[2] According to Sayer, the lyrics to "Orchard Road" are based on an all-night phone conversation out in a public telephone booth he had with his then wife, pleading for her return from her flat and forgiveness after a lapse of judgement in their seven-year marital life. Orchard Road in reality, refers to Churchfield Road, Acton in Greater London where his ex-wife Janice had moved out to,[3] Sayer changing it to "Orchard Road" as "Churchfield Road" "didn't sing very well".[4]

Track listing
Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Till You Come Back to Me"
4:05
2."Sea of Heartbreak"
3:44
3."More Than I Can Say"
3:41
4."Darlin'"
4:58
5."Don't Wait Until Tomorrow"
2:43
6."How Beautiful You Are"
3:54
7."Orchard Road"
  • Sayer
  • Tarney
4:27
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
8."Aviation"Thurston Clarke4:27
9."Heart (Stop Beating in Time)"
4:35
10."Your Love Still Brings Me to My Knees"
3:01
11."Have You Ever Been in Love"
3:43
12."Wounded Heart"
4:13
13."Love Games"Tom McKay3:47
14."Never Had a Dream Come True"
4:51

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[5]

Production
  • Producers: Arif Mardin, Alan Tarney, Christopher Neil

Charts
Chart (1983/84) Peak
Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[6] 20
UK Albums Chart[7] 15

References
  1. "Leo Sayer: Artist". Official Charts. Archived from the original on 14 September 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
  2. "Orchard Road", offiialcharts.com. Retrieved 30 December 2019
  3. Interview with Leo Sayer, The Bob Rogers Show, Radio 2CH, 10:31:30 AEST 31 July 2008
  4. Hadi, Eddino Abdul (2014) "8 Questions with Leo Sayer: He still makes you feel like dancing", The Straits Times, 1 December 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2019
  5. The Fugitive liner notes. Charisma Records. 1983.
  6. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 265. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  7. "Leo Sayer: Artist". Official Charts. Archived from the original on 14 September 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2011.
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