‘This Is Love’ is the fifth song on George Harrison’s eleventh solo album Cloud Nine.
Written by Harrison and Jeff Lynne, it was the third single released from the album.
That’s the great thing about Jeff. He wanted to help me make my record. But there’s so much in there Jeff contributed to. ‘Fab’ was a 50-50 contribution, but ‘This Is Love’ was a song where I said, ‘Why don’t you write me a tune?’ So he came down with lots of bits and pieces on cassette, and almost let me choose. I routined that song with him, and we wrote the words together. In fact, he had so many permutations of how that song is, he can still write another three songs out of the bits left.
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‘This Is Love’ was released as a single on 13 June 1988, with ‘Breath Away From Heaven’ on the b-side. The 12″ single added ‘All Those Years Ago’ and ‘Hong Kong Blues’.
The original b-side was to have been ‘Handle With Care’, which was eventually released as the debut single by The Traveling Wilburys.
A promotional video for ‘This Is Love’ was filmed in Hana on the Hawaiian island of Maui, where Harrison had a holiday home. The promo was directed by Morton Jankel.
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I’m so confused about the release date of “This is Love”…at first you say Nov 2, 1987. But then below, it says June 13, 1988. Meanwhile, Wikipedia also says it was released on June 13, 1988.
For the time being…I’m gonna go with June 13, 1988.??
The song was first released on Cloud Nine in November 1987. It was issued as a single the following year, hence the different dates. Hope that helps 🙂