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Labi Siffre

It Must Be Love

1971 · via Madness

Labi Siffre wrote “It Must Be Love” and put out the earliest release of it on file, in 1971. Also recorded by The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican (released 2007), Wilco (released 2019) and Jamie Lenman (released 2018), among 59 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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You know the Madness one; this is Labi Siffre, who wrote it and had it on record first in 1971. The song kept traveling after both of them, all the way to Wilco in 2019.

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Credited writer: Labi Siffre.

Earliest release on file: this one, 1971.

Other recordings on file · first release year

59 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Madness made "It Must Be Love" theirs in 1981, but they didn't write it. Who wrote the song and cut the first recording of it?Labi Siffre
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