Heart of Stone (Bucks Fizz song)

Infobox Single
Name = Heart of Stone


Artist = Bucks Fizz
from Album = The Story So Far
Released = November 5, 1988
B-side = "Here's Looking At You"
Format = 7" single, CD single, 12" single
Recorded = October 1988
Genre = Pop
Length = 4:22
Label = RCA
Writer = Andy Hill
Pete Sinfield
Producer = Andy Hill
Certification =
Last single = "Keep Each Other Warm"
(1986)
This single = "Heart of Stone"
(1988)
Next single =|Single infobox
Name = Heart of Stone


Artist = Cher
from Album = Heart of Stone
Released = January 1990
B-side = "All Because Of You"
Recorded = November 1988
Genre = Pop
Length = 4:18
Label = Geffen
Writer = Andy Hill
Pete Sinfield
Producer = David Geffen
Certification =
Reviews =
Misc =Extra chronology
Artist = Cher
Type = North American singles
Last single = "Just Like Jesse James"
(1989)
This single = "Heart of Stone"
(1990)
Next single = "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)"
(1990)Extra chronology
Artist = Cher
Type = European singles
Last single = "Just Like Jesse James"
(1989)
This single = "Heart of Stone"
(1990)
Next single = "You Wouldn't Know Love"
(1990)

"Heart of Stone" is a song written by Andy Hill and Pete Sinfield for the band Bucks Fizz in 1988, and recorded by the band at Abbey Road Studios in London. It was to be later recorded and popularized by Cher in 1990. [ [http://www.ianbairnson.com/discography/bucksfizzheartofstone/bucksfizzheartofstone.htm (Bucks Fizz Guitarist) Ian Bairnson site with song clip] ]

Bucks Fizz version (1988)

"Heart of Stone" was originally recorded by Bucks Fizz and released as a single in 1988. It was the group's 20th and final hit single, reaching #50 on the UK Singles Chart in November 1988. [ [http://www.chartstats.com/songinfo.php?id=15877 Chart Stats - Bucks Fizz - Heart Of Stone ] ] The single was accompanied by a Promotional video of the group performing the song inside and outside of a country mansion. [ [http://www.bucksfizzearlyyears.co.uk/heartstone.htm Bucksfizztheearlyyears.co.uk - "Heart of Stone" Video shots] ] The mansion was owned by Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees and was said to be haunted. As a reference to this, two children and a gardener were fleetingly seen in some shots. [ [http://www.brothersgibb.org/archives-page-9.html Brothersgibb.org Article on the mansion with references to the ghosts] ]

Soon after this, the group released "The Story so Far," a Greatest Hits album. Bucks Fizz recorded several other songs at this time, but due to the low chart position of this single, went unreleased until they were unearthed for a compilation album of unreleased Bucks Fizz songs, "The Lost Masters" in 2006.

Charts

Cher version (1990)

"Heart of Stone" is the fourth North American and third European single release from American singer/actress Cher's twentieth studio album "Heart of Stone".

Track listing

Heart Of Stone CD Single
# "Heart of Stone" (LP version)
# "Heart of Stone" (Remix)
# "All Because of You"

Official Versions

* Main Version (4:18)
* Remix (4:16)

Charts

References