It Must Be Love (Labi Siffre)

It Must Be Love is a 1971 single by the British - Nigerian singer Labi Siffre . It was an international hit, but is best known in the implementation of the ska-pop band Madness .

The nutty boys would play the original as a cover during a radio session, but due to time constraints, they decided to keep it for an upcoming tour of England. Due to overwhelming response from the public (and label boss cum-clip director Dave Robinson ) was a studio version which made ​​November 27, 1981 saw the light. The B-side was the country-tinged Shadow On The Houseand the 12-inch version was tropical album track Mrs. Hutchinson added; in the Netherlands was the A-side of It Must Be Love. In the accompanying clip, the band members dressed in black and does guitarist Chris Foreman a dangerous underwater stunt; in the string section is nobody to perceive less than Labi Siffre.

It Must Be Love in December 1981 took fifth place in the UK charts and was awarded gold.

In 1983, it was in America released as a successor of the top 10 hit Our House, but with less success.

In 1989, during the Madness-free era, It Must Be Love was re-released on the occasion of the solo performance of singer Suggs in the film The Tall Guy. In 1992, again followed a rerelease as a foretaste of the hitverzamelaar Divine Madness ; not only the Madness spent eight years back in the top 10, also succumbed to the entire band to the temptation to get back together for gigs and eventually new material.

It Must Be Love is now considered live classic that is always dedicated to the wives of the band members or amorous couples in the audience. Labi Siffre is his promise to cover a song by Madness failed to date.

[Covers and use media editing ]

 * Especially for a Volvo -advertising was a song composed that smacks of It Must Be Love, but soon picked one yet for the original arrangement of Madness.
 * In a scene from the movie Excluded about the forbidden love between a Jehovah's Witness and a girl from the squatters. Here, however, there is an anomaly, as the film is set in 1980.
 * Jasper Steverlinck tire Arid took it on as a solo piano ballad.
 * In commercials Eredivisie Live is a new wave to hear cover.
 * The Villa Achterwerk program About Love, in which schoolchildren back on their short-lived relationships, use the Madness version as recognition tune.