"Love in Motion" | ||||
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Single by Icehouse | ||||
B-side | "Goodnight, Mr. Matthews" | |||
Released | October 1981 | |||
Recorded | July 1981 | |||
Studio | London | |||
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Length | 3:41 | |||
Label | Regular | |||
Songwriter(s) | Iva Davies | |||
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Icehouse singles chronology | ||||
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"Love in Motion" is the first new material released by the Australian rock synthpop band Icehouse as a 7" vinyl single-only in October 1981 on Regular Records for the Australian market.[1] The band had been known as Flowers until 27 June 1981 after which they changed their name to Icehouse,[2] they had signed to Chrysalis Records and most of Flowers' material was released under the new name into Europe, UK and US markets.[1] "Love in Motion" peaked at #10 on the Australian singles charts.[3] The B-side, "Goodnight, Mr. Matthews" was included on the 1982 album Primitive Man with "Love in Motion" included on the Chrysalis Records US / European versions of the album, the UK 1983 version of the album was re-titled Love in Motion.
Both tracks of the single were written by the Flowers/Icehouse founder and mainstay Iva Davies[4] who recorded the tracks while Icehouse were on tour in London using the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5,[1][5] and produced them with Steve Nye.[6] In 1992, Icehouse released a compilation album Masterfile on Massive Records, which included the Davies duet with Christina Amphlett of Divinyls on "Love in Motion" also released as a CD-single. A 1996 Icehouse compilation was called Love in Motion and released by dIVA / Massive Records. A remix version by Wicked Beat Sound System was released on the Icehouse album Meltdown in 2002.[7]