Love Don't Live Here Anymore

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"Love Don't Live Here Anymore"

Single by Madonna
from the album Like A Virgin and Something to Remember''
Released	November, 1985 March 19, 1996
Format	7" Single 12" single CD single CD maxi-single
Recorded	1983
Genre	Pop/Soul
Length	4:45 4:54 (1995 remix)
Label	Sire/Warner Bros. Records
Writer(s)	Miles Gregory
Producer(s)	Nile Rodgers
Madonna singles chronology
"Gambler" (1985)	"Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (1985)	"Live to Tell" (1986)
Madonna singles chronology
"Oh Father (Re-issue)" (1996)	"Love Don't Live Here Anymore (Remix)" (1996)	"One More Chance" (1996)

"Love Don't Live Here Anymore" is a 1978 song originally recorded by Rose Royce and produced by former Motown songwriter and producer Norman Whitfield for the Whitfield Records label.

It was later covered by Morrissey-Mullen (1979), Madonna (1984), I'm Talking (1985), Jimmy Nail (1986), Faith Evans (1995) and Patti LaBelle amongst others. A live bootleg copy of a cover of the song has also been found, performed by Dallas Green of City and Colour/Alexisonfire. (date unknown)

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An early cover of the song was the instrumental track cut at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in 1979, when British jazz fusion duo Morrissey-Mullen was chosen to record EMI's first-ever digital recording of a non-classical music piece and which was released as a limited edition 12" EP.

Madonna's cover of "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" was recorded for her 1984 album Like A Virgin and produced by Nile Rodgers for Nile Rodgers Productions, Inc. It was released as a 7" single in Japan in March 1986 and made it as the 12" single B-side to the 1987 single Look of Love.

In 1995 Madonna released a compilation of her greatest ballad hits entitled Something to Remember, which included a remixed version of the song. In 1996, Warner Bros. Records commissioned a video (Directed by Jean Baptiste Mondino) and released it as a single in certain markets such as Germany, Australia and the United States. However, Warner Music UK did not want to issue another re-release in support of "Something To Remember" and instead, they released "Oh Father", which has been released previously in other parts of the world but not the UK.

Warner Bros. had commissioned dance remixes for the song which were released as promos to club DJs only. These remixes are highly sought after by fans and often found their way into peer-to-peer music sharing sites, though the Soulpower remixes were made available on the single, and one was used in the music video.

[edit] Music video

The video for "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (released in 1996, 12 years after the single's original recording for the Like a Virgin album in 1984) has the arresting visuals that is associated with Jean Baptiste Mondino: Madonna is seen pacing back and forth in a room filled with ornate furnitures and blowing gossamer-like drapes. It is also interesting that the clip was one long continuous take, with the camera slowly zooming into Madonna and then slowly zooming back out again. While filming the video, Madonna would forget the lyrics to the song (a song which she recorded way back in the mid 1980s and she had never performed it live), burst out laughing and thus ruin the shot and the video, and would have to start from the beginning again. In her "Evita" diaries, published by "Vanity Fair" in 1996, Madonna made reference to the video shoot which took place during downtime from the "Evita" set. In her writings, she specifically mentioned forgetting the lyrics of the song, suggesting she was having an identity crisis of sorts trying to juggle her own identity with that of her role in "Evita".

[edit] Remixes

Most of the remixes by Soulpower and Mark Picciotti were only availale promotionally to DJs, though the radio edits were readily available on the single.