"Love on Top of Love" | ||||
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Single by Grace Jones | ||||
from the album Bulletproof Heart | ||||
B-side |
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Released | October 1989 | |||
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Label | Capitol | |||
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"Love on Top of Love" on YouTube |
"Love on Top of Love" is a song by Grace Jones released in 1989 as the first single from Jones' ninth studio album Bulletproof Heart .
"Love on Top of Love", subtitled "Killer Kiss" on single releases, was produced by C+C Music Factory's David Cole and Robert Clivilles. Another album track, "On My Way", made the single B-side in the UK, while "Dream", a track available only on Bulletproof Heart CD releases, elsewhere. The song met with considerable success and reached #1 on the Billboard Hot Club Dance Play chart for two weeks in December 1989.
The music video features Jones wearing a swimsuit and sunglasses in a pool with a black-and-white screen in the background showing her smoking. A subsequent scenes show Jones in bed wearing a swim cap while surrounded by men. Jones originally shot the video with a Danish actor Sven-Ole Thorsen, whom she dated,[1] playing her boyfriend but his scenes were cut out. The video was directed by Greg Gorman.[2]
Chart (1989) | Peak position |
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Australia (ARIA)[3] | 121 |
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[4] | 47 |
Spain (AFYVE)[5] | 35 |
US Dance Club Songs (Billboard)[6] | 1 |