The Price of Love

For other uses, see The Price of Love (disambiguation).

"The Price of Love"
Single by The Everly Brothers
from the album In Our Image
B-side	"It Only Costs a Dime"
Released	1965
Genre	Pop rock
Length	2:23
Label	Warner Brothers 5628
Songwriter(s)	Don Everly and Phil Everly
The Everly Brothers singles chronology
"That'll Be the Day" (1965) "The Price of Love" (1965) "I'll Never Get Over You" (1965)
Official audio
The Price of Love (2006 Remaster) on YouTube

"The Price of Love" is a song by the Everly Brothers, released in 1965. It charted at No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart and No. 3 on the Irish Singles Chart. It spent one week at Number 1 on the UK's NME chart, but in the US, the song failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100.

Cash Box described it as "a raunchy, pulsating bluesy thumper which delineates the problems of a modern-day teenager romance."^[1]

Chart performance

Chart (1965)	Peak position
United Kingdom (Record Retailer)[2]	2
United Kingdom (NME)[3]	1
U.S. Billboard [4]	104

Bryan Ferry version

"The Price of Love"
Single by Bryan Ferry
from the album Let's Stick Together
B-side	"Shame, Shame, Shame"
Released	July 1976
Recorded	1973–76
Studio	AIR (London)
Length	3:13
Label	Island
Songwriter(s)	Don Everly and Phil Everly
Producer(s)	Chris Thomas, Bryan Ferry
Bryan Ferry singles chronology
"Let's Stick Together" (1976) "The Price of Love" (1976) "This Is Tomorrow" (1977)
Official audio
The Price of Love on YouTube

Bryan Ferry included a recording of the song on his album 1976 Let's Stick Together, and as the first track on the July 1976 EP Extended Play.^[5] It reached No. 7 in the UK chart, peaked at No. 9 on the Australian Singles Chart and was the 69th biggest selling single in Australia in 1976.^[6]

Lead guitar is by Chris Spedding.

References

1. "CashBox Record Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. May 8, 1965. p. 12. Retrieved 2022-01-12.
2. "Artist Chart History Details: Everly Brothers". The Official Charts Company. Retrieved 8 August 2010.
3. Rees, Dafydd; Lazell, Barry; Osborne, Roger (1995). Forty Years of "NME" Charts (2nd ed.). Pan Macmillan. p. 154. ISBN 0-7522-0829-2.
4. Joel Whitburn's Bubbling Under the Billboard Hot 100 1959-2004
5. Bryan Ferry EP on Discogs
6. "National Top 100 Singles for 1976". Kent Music Report. December 27, 1976. Retrieved January 15, 2022 – via Imgur.