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341:"Cruel to Be Kind" proved to be Lowe's most successful American single. Lowe reflected on this, "When I had my couple of hits, I sort of felt like I was ticking a box more than, 'Great, I'm off now on a chart-topping career.' I felt that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to do certain things, and one of them was to have a hit in my own right. At least one. I managed two or three, if you take in Europe. But in the United States, where it really matters, I had one hit and people still remember it, and it's a pretty good little song, you know?" Lowe continues to perform the song live and still looks favorably upon the song, saying, "I really love it. It cheers people up. ... If they're good songs, they really will stand the test of time". 323:
record it again. And I didn't think it would do anything, but he kind of bullied me into it." Lowe recorded the song with his band Rockpile; he recalled, "I said, 'Boys, I'm sorry, I've got this song which I've been told we've got to record, and it goes like this.' They grumbled a bit about it."
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of Lowe's single "Little Hitler". Lowe stated, "I wrote that when I was with a band, Brinsley Schwarz, that I was with from the early '70s to about the mid-'70s. ... We recorded it on a demo, it never came out, and when I signed to Columbia Records the A&R man there at the time suggested I
334:', and the bass line was the same... we loved that Philly disco stuff from the 70's, The O'Jays, all that stuff, we loved that... I can't really remember much about recording it. It was just another tune that we did, you know, and I sent it over to New York to Gregg and said, Uhh, will this do? 507:(Nick's manager at the time) as the best man. The wedding took place on August 18, 1979, at the Tropicana Motel in West Hollywood. All family stayed there for the wedding and reception (also featured in the video). Filming for the video took so long that Lowe was actually late to the wedding. 1062: 1210: 38: 338:" In more recent live versions, Lowe has performed the song closer to "The Love I Lost"; he explained, "How I do it now sounds quite different. In fact, it was on the radio the other day and I was quite amazed how differently I do it now". 297:
Released as a single in 1979, the song peaked at number 12 on the charts of Australia, Canada, the UK and the US. In the US, where it is one of Lowe's most well-known works, it remains his only single to hit the top 40, whereas in the UK
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An ode to tough love and heartache, but with a driving soul-pop rhythm...Heath Ledger's Patrick surprises Julia Stiles' Kat at prom with...an even jumpier version of Lowe's power pop gem.
1433: 314:"Cruel to Be Kind" was originally written by Nick Lowe and Ian Gomm while in Brinsley Schwarz, having been recorded as a demo during the band's final years. The song was to appear on 406:
The single was backed with the non-album Lowe solo song "Endless Grey Ribbon", which Lowe had originally composed for fellow Rockpile member Dave Edmunds, as referred to in the
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in the United States, charting at number 12 in both countries. The cover art was done by Antoinette Laumer Sales, while the cover photograph of Nick Lowe was by Greg Irvine.
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This version was eventually issued as the non-album B-side of Lowe's "Little Hitler" single, culled from his first solo album in 1978,
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Musically, the song was originally closer to a soul style. Lowe later said, “Initially... the inspiration was a song I loved by
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version of "Cruel to Be Kind" has been included on many compilations of Nick Lowe's work, including 1985's
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convinced Lowe to rerecord it as a potential solo single. Musically, the song was inspired by "
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in the US). This is now known as the "original version", as compiled on Lowe's 1999 box set
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and is a combination of actual footage of Lowe's wedding to
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The song was originally written and recorded for the final
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Index

Cruel to Be Kind (Spacehog song)

UK
Single
Nick Lowe
Labour of Lust
B-side
Genre
Power pop
pop-soul
Label
Radar
Columbia
Songwriter(s)
Ian Gomm
Producer(s)
Nick Lowe
Switch Board Susan
"Cruel to Be Kind"
YouTube
Nick Lowe
Ian Gomm
Brinsley Schwarz
B-side
Columbia Records
The Love I Lost
Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes
I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass
Carlene Carter
B-side

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