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has title
  • Easy Lover
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  • 12-inch single
  • Gramophone record
Subject
  • Dutch Top 40 number-one singles
  • Irish Singles Chart number-one singles
  • RPM Top Singles number-one singles
  • 1985 singles
  • Columbia Records singles
  • Oricon International Singles Chart number-one singles
  • 1984 singles
  • 1984 songs
  • UK Singles Chart number-one singles
  • Vocal duets
  • WrestleMania themes
  • Songs written by Phil Collins
  • Phil Collins songs
  • Song recordings produced by Phil Collins
  • Songs written by Philip Bailey
abstract
  • %22Easy Lover%22 is a hit song performed by Philip Bailey and Phil Collins, and written by Bailey, Collins, and Nathan East. The song appeared on Bailey's solo album Chinese Wall. Collins has performed the song in his live concerts and it appears on his 1990 album Serious Hits... Live!, as well as his 1998 compilation album, ...Hits.The song was a No. 1 hit in several countries worldwide, including Canada, Holland, Ireland, Japan, and the UK. In the U.S. it reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, kept out of the top spot for two weeks by %22I Want to Know What Love Is%22 by Foreigner. In the UK Singles Chart it reached No. 1, staying there for four weeks. The single sold over a million copies in the U.S. and was certified gold, as the RIAA requirement for a platinum single disc was not lowered to 1 million units until 1989. In addition, %22Easy Lover%22 has been certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry for sales of over 400,000 in the UK and platinum in Canada by Music Canada.%22Easy Lover%22 won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Overall Performance in a Video in 1985 and was Grammy nominated for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals in 1986.The lighthearted video for the song was filmed in London, England and is a music video about the making of a music video.Electric Six covered the song on their cover album Mimicry and Memories (2015).
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  • Phil Collins
  • Nathan East
  • Philip Bailey
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  • 5714dedf25ac0d8aee4df17b
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  • USSM18400713
producer
  • Phil Collins
track number
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  • 13095
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  • 103352180
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wsb:language_detected
  • english
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wsb:record_label
  • Columbia Records
wsb:recording_description
  • 1984
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  • Easy Lover
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