"Hungry for Love" is a song by

Bad Boys Blue Bad Boys Blue are the German pop group formed in Cologne in 1984. The group performed many international hits including "You're a Woman", " Pretty Young Girl", " I Wanna Hear Your Heartbeat", and "Come Back and Stay". The group became massive ...

. It was the only new track on their 1989 greatest-hits album ''

Bad Boys Best ''Bad Boys Best'' is a greatest hits album by Bad Boys Blue. It came out in 1989. The album contained a new song, "Hungry for Love "Hungry for Love" is a song by Bad Boys Blue. It was the only new track on their 1989 greatest-hits album '' Ba ...

'' and was released as its lead

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, debuting at number 26 in West Germany for the week of January 30, 1989. It was also the last single from the group to feature ex-vocalist

Trevor Taylor (singer) Trevor Oliver Taylor (11 January 1958 – 19 January 2008) was a Jamaican-German singer, musician, music producer, and songwriter. He was best known as the original lead singer of the German band Bad Boys Blue. In later years, he adopted the sta ...

, who has left the previous year.

Background

In 1988, Trevor Taylor left the group a year after being gradually demoted from his role of the lead singer. He was asked to rejoin the group the following year just for recording sessions for the "Hungry for Love" single that was to be featured on the group's first compilation album ''Bad Boys Best''. After Trevor Taylor's departure the vocalist position was permanently secured by

John McInerney John Edward McInerney (born 7 September 1957 in Liverpool, United Kingdom) is a British singer, songwriter, and the frontman of German band Bad Boys Blue. He is the only band member from the original line-up of the group still performing. Early y ...

Composition

The song was written by

Tony Hendrik Tony Hendrik (born Dieter Lünstedt, 4 March 1945 in Bad Bederkesa, a.k.a. Dee Dee Halligan, Jimmy Tarsus) is a German music producer, composer, and owner of a record label. The most known artists and bands he has produced and composed for are Ba ...

and Karin Hartmann (as Karin van Haaren) and produced by Hendrik and Hartmann.

Charts

References

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