''The Book of Love'' is the 14th studio album by British/Australian soft rock duo

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, released in 1997. The album was a serious attempt for the band to penetrate the charts, mainly focusing on mature adult contemporary songs. Though the album didn't have any chart entries, the singles "So Much Love" and "When I Say" have gained critical acclaim in USA, although in Asia the single "Strong Strong Wind" was a big hit. The latter song was also recorded by the American band

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for their 1998 compilation ''

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''. The writing of songs on the album began during their Asian tour on 1995, with the song "Mother Said" being demonstrated by

Graham Russell Graham Cyril Russell (born 11 June 1950) is an English musician, singer-songwriter, producer and guitarist of the soft rock duo Air Supply. In 1975, with Russell Hitchcock, he formed Air Supply in Australia. The duo have been singing and p ...

at their room in a hotel on

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. It was showned at their interactive CD-ROM titled ''As Close As This''.

Track listing

All songs written by Graham Russell, except where noted. #"The Book of Love" - 4:50 #"Strong, Strong Wind" (

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) - 4:21 #"So Much Love" (Russell, Tom Evans) - 4:14 #"When I Say" - 5:27 #"We the People" (Russell, Mark Williams) - 3:41 #"Once" (Jed Moss, Russell) - 4:59 #"Let's Stay Together Tonight" (Clifford Rehrig, Russell, Noble Williams) - 7:56 #"Daybreak" - 4:28 #"Mother Said" - 3:15 #"Would You Ever Walk Away" - 3:58 #"All That You Want" (Guy Allison, Russell) - 3:51

Personnel

Air Supply *

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– lead vocals (2, 3, 6–9), backing vocals (2, 8, 9) *

– keyboards (1), programming (1), acoustic guitar (1), lead vocals (2, 4, 6, 8, 9), backing vocals (2, 8, 9), guitar (3, 6, 9, 10),

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(8), drum programming (10) Additional musicians * Jed Moss – acoustic piano (1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8) *

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– keyboards (2, 4, 5, 8), strings (7) *

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– strings (3), keyboards (6) * Guy Allison – keyboards (6, 9, 10), drum programming (10) *

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– electric guitar (1), guitar (2, 4, 6, 10) * Larry Antonio – bass (1) *

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– bass (1, 2, 4) * Clifford Rehrig – bass (3, 6, 8, 9) * Mark T. Williams – drums (2, 3, 4, 6, 9), keyboards (4), percussion (4) * Rafael Padilla – percussion (2, 3, 9, 10) * Paulinho da Costa – percussion (4) * The Beejeagles (Russell Hitchcock, Graham Russell and Michael Sherwood) – lead vocals (1), backing vocals (1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10) * The Waters Family (Julia Waters, Luther Waters, Maxine Waters Willard and

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) – backing vocals (4)

Production

* Producer – Graham Russell * Engineer and Mixing – Alejandro Rodriguez * Assistant Engineer – Tony Meador * Mix Assistants – Tony Meador and Jeff Robinette * Mastered by

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at Gateway Mastering (Portland, ME) * Art Direction and Design – Lyn Bradley * Stylist – Xavier Cabrera * Photography – Michael Wilson

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Book of Love, The 1997 albums Air Supply albums Giant Records (Warner) albums Albums produced by Graham Russell