Stand Up for Your Love Rights

"Stand Up for Your Love Rights"
Single by Yazz
from the album Wanted
B-side Remix
Released October 1988
Format 7" single, 12" maxi, CD maxi
Genre Acid house, synth-pop
Length 5:00 (album version)
4:21 (7" edit)
Label Indisc, Blow Up, Big Life
Writer(s) Yasmin Marie Evans, Timothy Parry
Producer(s) The Beatmasters
Yazz singles chronology
"The Only Way Is Up"
(1988)		 "Stand Up for Your Love Rights"
(1988)		 "Fine Time"
(1989)

"Stand Up for Your Love Rights" is a 1988 single performed by Yazz. The song was particularly successful in Ireland and the UK, where it was respectively #1 and #2.

Music video

The video consists mostly of scenes of Yazz singing and accompanied by instrument players (backing vocalists can be seen from time to time too) interspersed with scenes of people dancing and hugging each other. Behind the musicians is a large board with diagrams on it similar to those on the cover of the 12" remix single.

Formats and track listings

7" single
  1. "Stand Up for Your Love Rights" — 4:21
  2. "Stand Up for Your Love Rights" (what it is ! mix) — 3:57
12" maxi
  1. "Stand Up for Your Love Rights" (extended) — 7:15
  2. "Stand Up for Your Love Rights" (y'azzid mix !) — 6:45
CD maxi
  1. "Stand Up for Your Love Rights" (7" version) — 4:22
  2. "Stand Up for Your Love Rights" (y'azzid mix) — 6:45
  3. "Stand Up for Your Love Rights" (extended 12") — 7:15
12" maxi - Remixes
  1. "Stand Up for Your Love Rights" (the stadium disco mix) — 8:50
  2. "Stand Up for Your Love Rights" (she's crazy mix) — 7:38

Certifications

Country Certification Date Sales certified
UK[1] Silver 1 December 1988 200,000

Charts

Chart (1988/1989) Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart[2] 22
Austrian Singles Chart[2] 29
French SNEP Singles Chart[2] 19
German Singles Chart[3] 10
Irish Singles Chart[4] 1
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart 8
Swedish Singles Chart[2] 12
Swiss Singles Chart[2] 7
UK Singles Chart[5] 2
U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play[6] 5

References

  1. ↑ UK certifications Bpi.co.uk (Retrieved 26 December 2008)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Stand Up for Your Love Rights", in various singles charts Lescharts.com (Retrieved 26 December 2008)
  3. ↑ German Singles Chart Charts-surfer.de (Retrieved 26 December 2008)
  4. ↑ Irish Single Chart Irishcharts.ie (Retrieved 26 December 2008)
  5. ↑ UK Singles Chart Chartstats.com (Retrieved 26 December 2008)
  6. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance Disco 1974-2003. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Inc. p. 285. ISBN 0-89820-156-X.