Back Street Luv

"Back Street Luv"
Single by Curved Air
from the album Second Album
B-side"Everdance"
ReleasedJuly 1971
GenreArt rock
Length3:36
LabelWarner Bros
Songwriter(s)Ian Eyre, Sonja Kristina, Darryl Way
Producer(s)Colin Caldwell, Curved Air
Curved Air singles chronology
"It Happened Today"
(1971)
"Back Street Luv"
(1971)
"Sarah's Concern"
(1972)
Performance video
"Back Street Luv" on BeatClub on YouTube

"Back Street Luv" is a song by British rock band Curved Air, written by band members Ian Eyre, Sonja Kristina and Darryl Way. It was included on the Second Album and released as a single in July 1971 by Warner Bros.[1] It reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart on 18 September.[2] Warners also released it as a single in the Netherlands, Germany, France and Portugal. In 1975 a live version appeared on Curved Air – Live and was released as a single in the UK by Deram, but it failed to make any commercial impact.[1][3]

Rock music critic Dave Thompson called the song "one of the band's own finest moments" and "also one of the crucial singles of the early 1970s".[4]

In 1997, Salad covered the song on the Childline charity album.[5]

  1. ^ a b "Back Street Luv". www.discogs.com. 1971. Retrieved 13 August 2010.
  2. ^ "Back Street Luv UK Charts". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 13 August 2010.
  3. ^ Joynson, Vernon (1995). The Tapestry of Delights Archived 25 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine. London: Borderline Books.
  4. ^ Dave Thompson. "Second Album". www.allmusic.com. Retrieved 13 August 2010.It's also one of the crucial singles of the early 1970s.
  5. ^ "Childline". www.allmusic.com. Retrieved 20 July 2011.