Life (Haddaway song)

"Life"
Single by Haddaway
from the album The Album
Released30 July 1993 (1993-07-30)
RecordedMetalworks (Mississauga, Ontario)
GenreEurodance[1]
Length
  • 4:18 (Radio Edit)
  • 6:00 (12" Mix)
LabelCoconut
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Dee Dee Halligan
  • Junior Torello
Haddaway singles chronology
"What Is Love"
(1993)
"Life"
(1993)
"I Miss You"
(1993)
Music video
"Life" on YouTube

"Life" (known as "Life (Everybody Needs Somebody to Love)" in the US) is a song by Trinidadian-German Eurodance artist Haddaway. Written and produced by Dee Dee Halligan (Tony Hendrik) and Junior Torello (Karin Hartmann-Eisenblätter), the song was released in July 1993 by Coconut Records as the second single from Haddaway's debut album, The Album (1993), and the follow-up to his successful debut single, "What Is Love". The song peaked at number one in Finland, Israel, Spain and Sweden, as well as on the RPM Dance chart and the Eurochart Hot 100, and was a top-10 hit in at least 13 countries. The music video for "Life", partly inspired by the 1927 film Metropolis, was directed by Angel Gracia and filmed in Frankfurt, Germany. By March 1994, the single had sold 1.5 million copies worldwide.[2]

  1. ^ Jones, Alan (21 August 1993). "Market Preview: Mainstream - Singles" (PDF). Music Week. p. 14. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
  2. ^ Ellie Weinert (26 March 1994). Casebook: Haddaway. Billboard. Retrieved 13 August 2011.