Back Street Luv
| "Back Street Luv" | ||||
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| Single by Curved Air | ||||
| from the album Second Album | ||||
| B-side | "Everdance" | |||
| Released | 18 June 1971 | |||
| Genre | Art rock | |||
| Length | 3:36 | |||
| Label | Warner Bros | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Darryl Way, Sonja Kristina, Ian Eyre | |||
| Producer(s) | Colin Caldwell, Curved Air | |||
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| Performance video | ||||
| "Back Street Luv" on BeatClub (1971) on YouTube | ||||
"Back Street Luv" is a song by British rock band Curved Air, written by band members Darryl Way, Sonja Kristina, and Ian Eyre. It was included on the Second Album and released as a single in June 1971 by Warner Bros. It reached number 4 in the UK Singles Chart on 18 September. Warners also released it as a single in the Netherlands, Germany, France and Portugal. In 1975 a live version appeared on Curved Air – Live and was released as a single in the UK by Deram, but it failed to make any commercial impact.
Rock music critic Dave Thompson called the song "one of the band's own finest moments" and "also one of the crucial singles of the early 1970s".
In 1997, Salad covered the song on the Childline charity album.