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| Single by Steve Winwood | ||||
| from the album Back in the High Life | ||||
| B-side | "And I Go" | |||
| Released | June 1986 | |||
| Recorded | November 1985 – May 1986 | |||
| Studio | Unique Recording Studio, New York | |||
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| Label | Island – IS 288 | |||
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"Higher Love" is a 1986 song by English singer Steve Winwood.[5] It was the first single released from his fourth solo LP, Back in the High Life (1986). It was written by Winwood and Will Jennings and produced by Russ Titelman and Winwood. The background vocals were performed by Chaka Khan, who also appeared in the music video.
"Higher Love" was Winwood's first Billboard Hot 100 number-one song, topping the chart for one week beginning 30 August 1986. "Higher Love" also spent four weeks atop the US Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart and earned two Grammy Awards, for Record of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. It also peaked at number 13 in the United Kingdom, Winwood's highest charting solo entry there, and reached number one in Canada for a week.
Whitney Houston covered the song in 1990 and it was included as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of her third studio album I'm Your Baby Tonight. In 2016, Winwood made a version with his daughter Lilly Winwood, performing a duet for a Hershey commercial.[6] Norwegian DJ Kygo reworked Houston's cover into a tropical house track in 2019, which was released as a single worldwide[7] and hit number one on Billboard magazine's Dance Club Songs chart, making it Houston's highest-charting posthumous release to date.
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- ^ "Top 40 Rock Singers". Ultimate Classic Rock. 13 May 2022. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
- ^ Breihan, Tom (28 December 2020). "The Number Ones: Steve Winwood's "Higher Love". Stereogum. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
Higher Love" still sounds, to my ears, like a sleepy blues-rock song...
- ^ Sullivan, Steve (2017). Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 586. ISBN 978-1-4422-5449-7.
- ^ "Steve Winwood". Billboard.
- ^ "Hershey's TV Commercial, 'My Dad' Song by Steve Winwood, Lilly Winwood". Ispot.tv. Archived from the original on 13 February 2016. Retrieved 15 February 2016.
- ^ White, Jack (27 June 2019). "Whitney Houston's first posthumous release in seven years announced as Kygo collaboration Higher Love". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 28 June 2019.