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Forget About Love
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Wikipedia article
"'Forget About Love'" is a song by American singer-songwriter Eddie Money, which was released in 1989 as a track on his seventh studio album 'Nothing to Lose'. It was written by Money, Richie Zito, Tom Whitlock and Todd Cerney, and produced by Zito and Money. The song reached No. 36 on the 'Billboard' Album Rock Tracks chart.
Background
"Forget About Love" was inspired by Money's separation from his first wife, Margo Lee Walker, and having a daughter with his new fiance, Laurie Harris, in 1988. He told the 'Pittsburgh Post-Gazette' in 1988, "I still love my wife, but I wanted a baby. Now I have one, and she's beautiful it's just unfortunate my wife didn't have her. 'Forget About Love' [is] about that, how it came down. I'm happy with the baby, but I miss my wife." He added in an interview with the 'Scripps Howard News Service' in 1989, "I wrote 'Forget About Love' as if she was singing it to me."
Critical reception
In a review of 'Nothing to Lose', Steve Persall of the 'Tampa Bay Times' noted, "Money's best outlook on love is when he plays the tough romantic on [songs such as] 'Forget About Love'." He felt the song had a "solid hook" and "entertaining arrangement". Kevin Connal of 'The Boston Globe' described it as "an incessant rock song with a melodic surge of keyboards chiming out".
Personnel
'Production'
* Richie Zito, Eddie Money producers, arrangers
* Phil Kaffel engineer, mixing
* Julian Stoll assistant engineer
* Stan Katayama, Jim Dineen, Toby Wright, Tom Johnson assistant mixers
Charts
References
Category:1989 songs
Category:Eddie Money songs
Category:Songs written by Eddie Money
Category:Songs written by Tom Whitlock
Category:Songs written by Todd Cerney
Category:Song recordings produced by Richie Zito
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