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"Forget About Love" is a song by American singer-songwriter Eddie Money, which was released in 1989 as a track on his seventh studio album Nothing to Lose. It was written by Money, Richie Zito, Tom Whitlock and Todd Cerney, and produced by Zito and Money. The song reached No. 36 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart.

Background

"Forget About Love" was inspired by Money's separation from his first wife, Margo Lee Walker, and having a daughter with his new fiancée, Laurie Harris, in 1988. He told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1988, "I still love my wife, but I wanted a baby. Now I have one, and she's beautiful – it's just unfortunate my wife didn't have her. 'Forget About Love' about that, how it came down. I'm happy with the baby, but I miss my wife." He added in an interview with the Scripps Howard News Service in 1989, "I wrote 'Forget About Love' as if she was singing it to me."

Critical reception

In a review of Nothing to Lose, Steve Persall of the Tampa Bay Times noted, "Money's best outlook on love is when he plays the tough romantic on 'Forget About Love'." He felt the song had a "solid hook" and "entertaining arrangement". Kevin Connal of The Boston Globe described it as "an incessant rock song with a melodic surge of keyboards chiming out".

Personnel

Production

• Richie Zito, Eddie Money – producers, arrangers
• Phil Kaffel – engineer, mixing
• Julian Stoll – assistant engineer
• Stan Katayama, Jim Dineen, Toby Wright, Tom Johnson – assistant mixers

Charts

References

1. "Forget About Love Chart History". Billboard. Retrieved March 7, 2021.
2. Madden, Mark (December 10, 1988). "Eddie Money quiets his rock 'n' roll image". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. p. 23.
3. Mitchell, Justin (March 30, 1989). "Another rocker living straight life after drugs and alcohol". Waterloo Courier. p. C4.
4. Persall, Steve (October 30, 1989). "Money tries his best, but words fail him". Tampa Bay Times. p. 2F.
5. Connal, Kevin (October 20, 1989). "Recordings". The Boston Globe.

• 1989 songs
• Eddie Money songs
• Songs written by Eddie Money
• Songs written by Tom Whitlock
• Songs written by Todd Cerney
• Song recordings produced by Richie Zito