"Love's Great Adventure" is a single released by

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on 12 October 1984. Having enjoyed massive radio airplay that autumn, the single became Ultravox's thirteenth Top 30 single in Britain, and was their last major hit in the UK, peaking at #12 in the UK Singles Chart.

Background

Unhappy to release another single from their recent album ''

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'', Billy Currie said in 1984 that the band wanted to do something different and do a one-off single totally separate from any album, recorded in a more immediate way than ''Lament''. The song was not released on a studio album, instead appearing on their 1984 compilation album '' The Collection''. 40 years later the track was finally included on ''Lament'' when the 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of the album was released.

In popular culture

An episode of the BBC series ''

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'', also called "Love's Great Adventure", used this song as its closing theme.

Track listing

7" version

# "Love's Great Adventure" – 3:04 - (

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) # "White China (Live June 84 at

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)" – 3:43 - (music: Cross,

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- lyrics: Ure)

12" version

# "Love's Great Adventure (Extended Version)" – 5:40 # "White China (Live June 84 at Hammersmith Odeon)" – 3:43 # "Man of Two Worlds (Instrumental)" – 4:32 - (music: Currie, Cann, Cross, Ure - lyrics: Ure)

References

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