“In 1987, my wife Mary and I lived in a small two-bedroomed flat in Maida Vale in North London,” Smith recalled. However, the foundations of the track come from a little closer to home and show off just how illustrative a writer Robert Smith is.
The track was written in 1987 and released on Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me seeing the band become more popular than ever across the globe. Thanks to the subject matter being such a big seller, it encouraged countless acts to try to write and record a love song. Teenagers across the world would save up their pennies to pick up a piece of groovy plastic and, invariably, on those grooves would be another tale of pure pop puppy love, perfectly crafted to make swooning an inevitability. For most of the fifties and sixties, it was the only theme anyone cared about, and most certainly the only theme that sold records. It’s easy for a band or artist to get drawn into writing a song about love. Below, we’ve got 20 songs that not only tell the story of love with the gilded expertise of a superbly experienced teacher but do it with honesty. As such, any attempts to include the blissful feeling of being bonded with another can feel forced and inauthentic. Though the genre was founded on sex and drugs, that doesn’t often leave much room for the pure emotion of love in all its gloopy, saccharine goodness.
Trying to create a playlist of rock ‘n’ roll songs driven by love is always quite a tricky task to undertake.
“I love rock n’ roll / So put another dime in the jukebox, baby / I love rock n’ roll / So come and take your time and dance with me” - Joan Jett.
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