Billboard #1 Hits: #606: ‘Higher Love’- Steve Winwood. August 30, 1986. #1 for 1 week in Billboard Hot 100.
- Single: ‘Higher Love’- Steve Winwood
- Record Company- Island
- Genre: Pop
- Written by Steve Winwood and Will Jennings
- Time: 4:14
- B-side: ‘And I Go’
- Album- Back In The High Life
- Grade: A
- Peaked at #1 1 week in Billboard Hot 100. #13 in UK Singles Chart #1 in Canada.
The first of two #1 hits by Steve Winwood- the other was ‘Roll With It’ in 1988. ‘Higher Love’ was the first single from Steve’s Back In The High Life album- which produced 5 Top 40 hit singles for him in the United States- the peak of his solo career. ‘Higher Love’ featured backing vocals by Chaka Khan.
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I loved this song and the entire album “Back in the High Life”, which I played nearly to death back in 1986.
Good to see Steve make some dough. Catchy tune.