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Australian Charts:
The Price of Love entered the Kent Music Report on 13 September 1976 and peaked at #9. It was the #61 song on the Top 100 of 1976.
Album:
The song is on Let’s Stick Together which entered the Kent Music Report album charts on 18 October 1976. It reached #1 on 8 November 1976 and remained there for 2 weeks.
Songwriters:
Don Everly, Phil Everly
Producers:
Chris Thomas, Bryan Ferry
BONUS TRACK BELOW – version by Status Quo
Wikipedia:
Bryan Ferry’s 1976 album Let’s Stick Together was his third solo release, and was his first following the disbanding of Roxy Music earlier in the year.
Ferry’s The Price of Love is a cover of an Everly Brothers song released in 1965 as a single, and in 1966 on their album In Our Image.
Other covers included Status Quo, Poco and Marianne Faithfull, and unreleased versions have been recorded by Elvis Costello and Linda Ronstadt.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Price_of_Love
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BONUS TRACK
Status Quo released a rock version of The Price of Love in 1969
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