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| Released = 23 January 1976 <small>UK</small>
| Released = 23 January 1976 <small>UK</small>
| Format =
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| Recorded = 1975
| Recorded = [[Metropolis Group#Studios|Metropolis Studios]] 1975
| Genre = [[British soul]]
| Genre = [[British soul]]
| Length = 2:58
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"'''Love Really Hurts Without You'''" is a song recorded by Trinidad-born UK soul singer [[Billy Ocean]]: often cited for its [[Motown Records|Motown]] influence,<ref name="BillyOcean.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.billyocean.com/biography/|title=Biography – Billy Ocean|work=billyocean.com|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/billy-ocean-ahead-floral-pavillion-3345117|title=Billy Ocean ahead of his Floral Pavillion gig: I’ve always felt like an outsider|first=Jade|last=Wright|date=18 May 2012|work=liverpoolecho.co.uk|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref><ref name="BlogCritics">{{cite web|url=http://blogcritics.org/billy-ocean-talks-past-present-and/|title=Billy Ocean Talks Past, Present, and Future|work=blogcritics.org|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Hoffman |first=Frank W. |title=Rhythm and Blues, Rap, and Hip-Hop| year=2008 |publisher=Facts on File Inc| location=NYC| page=197 |isbn=9780816053155}}</ref> the song – written by Ocean under his real name name Les[lie] Charles with the track's producer Ben Findon – was the second single recorded in the name Billy Ocean – although the singer had had several previous releases using other stage names – and would provide Ocean with his first chart record in 1976.<ref name="BillyOcean.com"/><ref name="BlogCritics"/> "Love Really Hurts Without You" remains tied with the 1977 #2 UK hit "Red Light Spells Danger" as Ocean's second best alltime UK charting, being bested only by "[[When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going (song)|When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going]]" which had a four week #1 UK tenure in 1985.<ref name="Official Charts">{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/15645/billy-ocean/|title=BILLY OCEAN – full Official Chart History – Official Charts Company|work=officialcharts.com|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref>
"'''Love Really Hurts Without You'''" is a song recorded by Trinidad-born UK soul singer [[Billy Ocean]]: often cited for its [[Motown Records|Motown]] influence,<ref name="BillyOcean.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.billyocean.com/biography/|title=Biography – Billy Ocean|work=billyocean.com|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/billy-ocean-ahead-floral-pavillion-3345117|title=Billy Ocean ahead of his Floral Pavillion gig: I’ve always felt like an outsider|first=Jade|last=Wright|date=18 May 2012|work=liverpoolecho.co.uk|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref><ref name="BlogCritics">{{cite web|url=http://blogcritics.org/billy-ocean-talks-past-present-and/|title=Billy Ocean Talks Past, Present, and Future|work=blogcritics.org|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Hoffman |first=Frank W. |title=Rhythm and Blues, Rap, and Hip-Hop| year=2008 |publisher=Facts on File Inc| location=NYC| page=197 |isbn=9780816053155}}</ref> the song – written by Ocean under his real name name Les[lie] Charles with the track's producer Ben Findon – was the second single recorded in the name Billy Ocean – although the singer had had several previous releases using other stage names – and would provide Ocean with his first chart record in 1976.<ref name="BillyOcean.com"/><ref name="BlogCritics"/> "Love Really Hurts Without You" remains tied with the 1977 #2 UK hit "Red Light Spells Danger" as Ocean's second best alltime UK charting, being bested only by "[[When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going (song)|When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going]]" which had a four week #1 UK tenure in 1985.<ref name="Official Charts">{{cite web|url=http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/15645/billy-ocean/|title=BILLY OCEAN – full Official Chart History – Official Charts Company|work=officialcharts.com|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref>


At the time of his single's success, Ocean was quoted (indirectly) as considering himself "the most surprised person in the world that 'Love Really Hurts<small>...</small>' became a hit. It's his tenth release, and he'd got to the point where he assumed his records would be flops."<ref>''Radio & Records Vol 4 #17 (7 May 1976)''</ref> Ocean had been pursuing a singing career in London by 1969, with a stint singing [[demo (music)|demo]]s at Southern Music Studio on [[Denmark Street]] leading to Ocean's working as a studio "[[gofer]]" for producer Ben Findon:<ref name="Blues & Soul">{{cite web|url=http://www.bluesandsoul.com/feature/338/billy_ocean_caribbean_king/|title=BILLY OCEAN: Caribbean King|first=Stephen Clark -|last=Design|work=bluesandsoul.com|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref> after having Ocean sing lead on the 1974 single "On the Run" by a Findon session group credited as Scorched Earth, Findon produced the initial single by Billy Ocean so-named: the 8 August 1975 single release "Whose Little Girl Are You".<ref name="BlogCritics"/>
At the time of his single's success, Ocean was quoted (indirectly) as considering himself "the most surprised person in the world that 'Love Really Hurts Without You' became a hit. It's his tenth release, and he'd got to the point where he assumed his records would be flops."<ref>''Radio & Records Vol 4 #17 (7 May 1976)''</ref> Ocean had been pursuing a singing career in London by 1969, with a stint singing [[demo (music)|demo]]s at Southern Music Studio on [[Denmark Street]] leading to Ocean's working as a studio "[[gofer]]" for producer Ben Findon.<ref name="Blues & Soul">{{cite web|url=http://www.bluesandsoul.com/feature/338/billy_ocean_caribbean_king/|title=BILLY OCEAN: Caribbean King|first=Stephen Clark -|last=Design|work=bluesandsoul.com|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref> At the time of his meeting Findon, Ocean was working on the assembly line at [[Ford Dagenham]]: <small>(Billy Ocean quote:)</small> "I would do sessions during the day and after I had finished a session I would go work at Ford all through the night. It half killed me, but while I was doing that I met this producer who gave me [the] opportunity [to record 'Love Really Hurts<small>...</small>']." <ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/culture/performance/9705479/Billy-Ocean-Caribbean-king| title=Billy Ocean: Caribbean king | publisher=Stuff.co.nz| accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref> The inaugural collaboration between Ocean and Findon was in fact the 1974 single "On the Run" which was credited to Scorched Earth, after which "Whose Little Girl Are You" became the first single recorded and released (8 August 1975) in the name Billy Ocean.<ref name="BlogCritics"/>


Ocean was by this time living with his parents and siblings in a small flat off [[Brick Lane]] for which the singer had just purchased a piano: <small>(Billy Ocean quote:)</small> "We carried the piano up to the third floor and it fitted perfectly in my little bedroom. And the novelty of it was coming home every lunchtime and evening and tinkling my piano until eventually I did get something out of it which was the song 'Love Really Hurts<small>...</small>'. My left hand started playing the melody and my right hand just did some down beats and my voice just started coming out with [the opening lyric] 'You run around town like a fool and you think that it's groovy' and the song just came together there and then."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jonkutner.com/news/page/20/|title=News – Page 20 of 70 – Jon Kutner|work=jonkutner.com|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref>
Prior to meeting Findon, Ocean had worked as a pattern cutter at a [[fashion design|fashion house]] on [[Savile Row]]: when a co-worker mentioned that she was selling her piano Ocean impulsively borrowed £23 from his boss to purchase it<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2008/08/06/billy_ocean_interview_feature.shtml| title=A Sea Change For Billy Ocean| publisher=BBC.co.uk| accessdate=30 January 2017}}></ref> - <small>(Billy Ocean quote:)</small> "We carried the piano up to the third floor and it fitted perfectly in my little bedroom"<ref name="Jon Kutner">{{cite web|url=http://www.jonkutner.com/news/page/20/|title=News – Page 20 of 70 – Jon Kutner|work=jonkutner.com|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref> (Ocean was by this time living in his mother's council flat off [[Brick Lane]])<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/686081/Soul-singer-Billy-Ocean-Where-is-he-now| tile=Soul singer Billy Ocean: where is he now?| publisher=Express.co.uk| accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref><ref name="Jon Kutner"/> - and taught himself to play it (previously he had utilized his guitar to write songs): <small>(Billy Ocean quote:)</small> "The novelty of it was coming home every lunchtime and evening and tinkling my piano until eventually I did get something out of it which was the song 'Love Really Hurts Without You'. My left hand started playing the melody and my right hand just did some down beats and my voice just started coming out with [the opening lyric] 'You run around town like a fool and you think that it's groovy' and the song just came together there and then."<ref name="Jon Kutner"/>


After Findon touched-up Ocean's composition "Love Really Hurts Without You" was recorded<ref name="Blues & Soul"/> to be released 23 January 1976: debuting at #34 on the UK Top 50 dated 21 February 1976, the single rose as high as #2 on the chart dated 27 March 1976, held off from #1 by "[[Save Your Kisses for Me]]" by [[Brotherhood of Man]].<ref name="Official Charts"/> At the time "Love Really Hurts<small>...</small>" was released Ocean was toiling at a day job installing [[windscreen wipers]] at [[Ford Dagenham]]: <small>(Billy Ocean quote:)</small> "I was on the job when I heard that song on [[Radio Luxembourg]]. I felt so good, because I knew I was free to leave. So I left."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://people.com/archive/the-tide-is-high-for-pops-billy-ocean-the-caribbean-king-of-love-songs-vol-26-no-11/|title=The Tide Is High for Pop’s Billy Ocean, the Caribbean King of Love Songs – Vol. 26 No. 11|date=15 September 1986|work=people.com|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref> "Love Really Hurts Without You" afforded Ocean an international hit with high rankings in national hit parades around the globe: its March 1976 US single release drew a somewhat muted response, the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] peak of "Love Really Hurts<small>...</small>" being #22. (Ocean would not again place a single on the Hot 100 until 1984 when "[[Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)]]" would top the chart.)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/284768/billy-ocean/chart|title=Billy Ocean – Chart history – Billboard|work=billboard.com|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref>
After Findon touched-up Ocean's composition "Love Really Hurts Without You" was recorded<ref name="Blues & Soul"/> at [[Metropolis Group#Studios|Metropolis Studios]] <ref>{{cite news| last=Barber| first=Richard| date=7 May 2016| title=My Haven: Billy Ocean| newspaper=Daily Mail Weekend Magazine| date=30 January 2017}}</ref> to be released 23 January 1976: debuting at #34 on the UK Top 50 dated 21 February 1976, the single rose as high as #2 on the chart dated 27 March 1976, held off from #1 by "[[Save Your Kisses for Me]]" by [[Brotherhood of Man]].<ref name="Official Charts"/> <small>(Billy Ocean quote:)</small> "I was on the [Ford assembly line] when I heard that song on [[Radio Luxembourg]]. I felt so good, because I knew I was free to leave. So I left."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://people.com/archive/the-tide-is-high-for-pops-billy-ocean-the-caribbean-king-of-love-songs-vol-26-no-11/|title=The Tide Is High for Pop’s Billy Ocean, the Caribbean King of Love Songs – Vol. 26 No. 11|date=15 September 1986|work=people.com|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref> "Love Really Hurts Without You" afforded Ocean an international hit with high rankings in national hit parades around the globe: its March 1976 US single release drew a somewhat muted response, the [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]] peak of "Love Really Hurts<small>...</small>" being #22. (Ocean would not again place a single on the Hot 100 until 1984 when "[[Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)]]" would top the chart.)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/284768/billy-ocean/chart|title=Billy Ocean – Chart history – Billboard|work=billboard.com|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref>


"Love Really Hurts Without You" is unique among Billy Ocean's twelve Hot 100 hits in that it failed to also rank on the ''Billboard'' [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|R&B chart]], where Ocean would place an overall total of eighteen singles beginning with the followup to "Love Really Hurts<small>...</small>": "L.O.D (Love on Delivery)" (#55 R&B). A major factor in Ocean's "Love Really Hurts<small>...</small>" failing to rank as an R&B hit was that concurrent with the single's US release a [[cover version]] by [[Alex Brown (singer)|Alex Brown]] was recorded for the [[Chelsea Records]] Roxbury label with [[John Madara]] producing.<ref>''Record World'' Vol 31 #1501 (27 March 1976) p. 30</ref> After hearing Alex Brown singing on the sessions for a [[Wayne Newton]] album, Chelsea owner [[Wes Farrell]] had suggested that she cut "Love Really Hurts<small>...</small>" – <small>(Alex Brown quote:)</small> "We went in the studios that night: it was recorded by midnight and was pressed up and in the shops about three days later."<ref>''Black Music & Jazz Review'' Vol 3 (1980) p. 27</ref>
"Love Really Hurts Without You" is unique among Billy Ocean's twelve Hot 100 hits in that it failed to also rank on the ''Billboard'' [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|R&B chart]], where Ocean would place an overall total of eighteen singles beginning with the followup to "Love Really Hurts<small>...</small>": "L.O.D (Love on Delivery)" (#55 R&B). A major factor in Ocean's "Love Really Hurts<small>...</small>" failing to rank as an R&B hit was that concurrent with the single's US release a [[cover version]] by [[Alex Brown (singer)|Alex Brown]] was recorded for the [[Chelsea Records]] Roxbury label with [[John Madara]] producing.<ref>''Record World'' Vol 31 #1501 (27 March 1976) p. 30</ref> After hearing Alex Brown singing on the sessions for a [[Wayne Newton]] album, Chelsea owner [[Wes Farrell]] had suggested that she cut "Love Really Hurts<small>...</small>" – <small>(Alex Brown quote:)</small> "We went in the studios that night: it was recorded by midnight and was pressed up and in the shops about three days later."<ref>''Black Music & Jazz Review'' Vol 3 (1980) p. 27</ref>
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In November 1986 a remixed version of Billy Ocean's "Love Really Hurts Without You" had a single release which briefly charted in the UK at #81<ref name="Official Charts"/> and which in March 1987 would spend one week on the Netherlands [[Single Top 100]] at #98. On Belgium's Flemish chart – which had afforded the original Ocean version a #6 peak – the 1986 mix of "Love Really Hurts<small>...</small>" rose as high as #21 in January 1987. "Love Really Hurts<small>...</small>" has since generated two successful Belgian remakes via two distinct Flemish renderings, the first a thematic departure from the English original: "Met z'n tweetjes", recorded by [[Bart Kaëll]] which in 2013 reached #3 on the hit parade rankings for Flemish acts:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radio2.be/de-vlaamse-ultratop-50/de-vlaamse-top-10-van-11-augustus-2013|title=De Vlaamse Top 10 van 11 augustus 2013|work=radio2.be|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref> the track was one of eight new songs included on the Kaëll retrospective album release ''30''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vlaamsetop50.be/?p=250|title=Vlaamse Top 50 – www.vlaamsetop50.be|work=vlaamsetop50.be|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref> In 2015 [[Willy Sommers]] recorded a more faithful translation of "Love Really Hurts<small>...</small>": "Liefdesverdriet Doet Zo'n Pijn", for his album ''Gisteren wordt vandaag'':<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vlaamsetop50.be/?p=2802|title=Vlaamse Top 50 – www.vlaamsetop50.be|work=vlaamsetop50.be|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref> <small>(Willy Sommers quote:)</small> "Everyone has had to deal with heartbreak. The song has always appealed to me: despite the sad lyric there's comfort in the upbeat music."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.showbizzsite.be/nieuws/willy-sommers-liefdesverdriet-doet-zon-pijn-1438335|title=Willy Sommers: Liefdesverdriet doet zo'n pijn|work=showbizzsite.be|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref> Issued as the album's fifth single in March 2015, "Liefdesverdriet<small>...</small>" reached #15 on the hit parade rankings for Flemish acts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ultratop.be/nl/vlaamse-top-50/2016/20160319|title=Vlaamse top 50|work=ultratop.be|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref>
In November 1986 a remixed version of Billy Ocean's "Love Really Hurts Without You" had a single release which briefly charted in the UK at #81<ref name="Official Charts"/> and which in March 1987 would spend one week on the Netherlands [[Single Top 100]] at #98. On Belgium's Flemish chart – which had afforded the original Ocean version a #6 peak – the 1986 mix of "Love Really Hurts<small>...</small>" rose as high as #21 in January 1987. "Love Really Hurts<small>...</small>" has since generated two successful Belgian remakes via two distinct Flemish renderings, the first a thematic departure from the English original: "Met z'n tweetjes", recorded by [[Bart Kaëll]] which in 2013 reached #3 on the hit parade rankings for Flemish acts:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radio2.be/de-vlaamse-ultratop-50/de-vlaamse-top-10-van-11-augustus-2013|title=De Vlaamse Top 10 van 11 augustus 2013|work=radio2.be|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref> the track was one of eight new songs included on the Kaëll retrospective album release ''30''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vlaamsetop50.be/?p=250|title=Vlaamse Top 50 – www.vlaamsetop50.be|work=vlaamsetop50.be|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref> In 2015 [[Willy Sommers]] recorded a more faithful translation of "Love Really Hurts<small>...</small>": "Liefdesverdriet Doet Zo'n Pijn", for his album ''Gisteren wordt vandaag'':<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vlaamsetop50.be/?p=2802|title=Vlaamse Top 50 – www.vlaamsetop50.be|work=vlaamsetop50.be|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref> <small>(Willy Sommers quote:)</small> "Everyone has had to deal with heartbreak. The song has always appealed to me: despite the sad lyric there's comfort in the upbeat music."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.showbizzsite.be/nieuws/willy-sommers-liefdesverdriet-doet-zon-pijn-1438335|title=Willy Sommers: Liefdesverdriet doet zo'n pijn|work=showbizzsite.be|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref> Issued as the album's fifth single in March 2015, "Liefdesverdriet<small>...</small>" reached #15 on the hit parade rankings for Flemish acts.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ultratop.be/nl/vlaamse-top-50/2016/20160319|title=Vlaamse top 50|work=ultratop.be|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref>


"Love Really Hurts Without You" has also been recorded by [[Bad Boys Blue]] (album ''[[Heartbeat (Bad Boys Blue album)|Heart Beat]]''/ 1986),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.badboysblue.eu/music/albums/02/index.html|title=Bad Boys Blue > the official website > www.badboysblue.eu > www.badboysblue.info > www.badboysblue.co.uk > John McInerney > Carlos Ferreira|first=|last=www.finxi.eu|work=badboysblue.eu|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref> [[Ankie Bagger]] (album ''Where Were You Last Night''/ 1989),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ankiebagger.se/discografi|title=Ankie Bagger – Discografi med Album & Singlar – "Where were you last night?"|work=ankiebagger.se|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref> [[Gordon Heuckeroth|Gordon]] (album ''A Song For You''/ 2008),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.yourmusics.net/artist/biography/gordon-35395.html|title=Free Gordon biography – SONG365|work=yourmusics.net|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref> [[Marion Maerz]] ([[:de:Marion Maerz|de]]) (as "Liebe ist mehr als ein Spiel" <span style="font-size:75%">German</span>) (1976),<ref name="MusikTitelDB">{{cite web|url=http://musiktiteldb.de/Cover/Love_Really_~Ocea.html|title=Musiktitel gleicher Schreibweise oder gleicher Melodien, Original und Cover|work=musiktiteldb.de|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref> [[Stein Ingebrigtsen]] (multi-artist album ''Treff 76-2''/ 1976)<ref name="MusikTitelDB"/> and [[Six (band)|Six]] (as "Love Really Hurts") (album ''This Is It''/ 2002).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/this-is-it/id306521244|title=This Is It by Six on Apple Music|work=apple.com|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref>
"Love Really Hurts Without You" has also been recorded by [[Bad Boys Blue]] (album ''[[Heartbeat (Bad Boys Blue album)|Heart Beat]]''/ 1986),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.badboysblue.eu/music/albums/02/index.html|title=Bad Boys Blue > the official website > www.badboysblue.eu > www.badboysblue.info > www.badboysblue.co.uk > John McInerney > Carlos Ferreira|first=|last=www.finxi.eu|work=badboysblue.eu|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref> [[Ankie Bagger]] (album ''Where Were You Last Night''/ 1989),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ankiebagger.se/discografi|title=Ankie Bagger – Discografi med Album & Singlar – "Where were you last night?"|work=ankiebagger.se|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref> [[Gordon Heuckeroth|Gordon]] (album ''A Song For You''/ 2008),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.yourmusics.net/artist/biography/gordon-35395.html|title=Free Gordon biography – SONG365|work=yourmusics.net|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref> [[Marion Maerz]] ([[:de:Marion Maerz|de]]) (as "Liebe ist mehr als ein Spiel" <span style="font-size:75%">German</span>) (1976),<ref name="MusikTitelDB">{{cite web|url=http://musiktiteldb.de/Cover/Love_Really_~Ocea.html|title=Musiktitel gleicher Schreibweise oder gleicher Melodien, Original und Cover|work=musiktiteldb.de|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref> [[Stein Ingebrigtsen]] (multi-artist album ''Treff 76-2''/ 1976),<ref name="MusikTitelDB"/> [http://dominickirwan.com/ Dominic Kirwan] (album ''A Little Bit More''/ 2008)<ref>{{cite news| last=McMullen| first=Marion| date=16 April 2009| title=Irish star Dominic sings the classics| newspaper=Coventry Telegraph| accessdate=30 January 2017}}</ref> and [[Six (band)|Six]] (as "Love Really Hurts") (album ''This Is It''/ 2002).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/this-is-it/id306521244|title=This Is It by Six on Apple Music|work=apple.com|accessdate=29 January 2017}}</ref>


==Chart performance (Billy Ocean version/ 1976)==
==Chart performance (Billy Ocean version/ 1976)==

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"Love Really Hurts Without You"
Song
B-side"You're Running Outa Fools"

"Love Really Hurts Without You" is a song recorded by Trinidad-born UK soul singer Billy Ocean: often cited for its Motown influence,[1][2][3][4] the song – written by Ocean under his real name name Les[lie] Charles with the track's producer Ben Findon – was the second single recorded in the name Billy Ocean – although the singer had had several previous releases using other stage names – and would provide Ocean with his first chart record in 1976.[1][3] "Love Really Hurts Without You" remains tied with the 1977 #2 UK hit "Red Light Spells Danger" as Ocean's second best alltime UK charting, being bested only by "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going" which had a four week #1 UK tenure in 1985.[5]

At the time of his single's success, Ocean was quoted (indirectly) as considering himself "the most surprised person in the world that 'Love Really Hurts Without You' became a hit. It's his tenth release, and he'd got to the point where he assumed his records would be flops."[6] Ocean had been pursuing a singing career in London by 1969, with a stint singing demos at Southern Music Studio on Denmark Street leading to Ocean's working as a studio "gofer" for producer Ben Findon.[7] At the time of his meeting Findon, Ocean was working on the assembly line at Ford Dagenham: (Billy Ocean quote:) "I would do sessions during the day and after I had finished a session I would go work at Ford all through the night. It half killed me, but while I was doing that I met this producer who gave me [the] opportunity [to record 'Love Really Hurts...']." [8] The inaugural collaboration between Ocean and Findon was in fact the 1974 single "On the Run" which was credited to Scorched Earth, after which "Whose Little Girl Are You" became the first single recorded and released (8 August 1975) in the name Billy Ocean.[3]

Prior to meeting Findon, Ocean had worked as a pattern cutter at a fashion house on Savile Row: when a co-worker mentioned that she was selling her piano Ocean impulsively borrowed £23 from his boss to purchase it[9] - (Billy Ocean quote:) "We carried the piano up to the third floor and it fitted perfectly in my little bedroom"[10] (Ocean was by this time living in his mother's council flat off Brick Lane)[11][10] - and taught himself to play it (previously he had utilized his guitar to write songs): (Billy Ocean quote:) "The novelty of it was coming home every lunchtime and evening and tinkling my piano until eventually I did get something out of it which was the song 'Love Really Hurts Without You'. My left hand started playing the melody and my right hand just did some down beats and my voice just started coming out with [the opening lyric] 'You run around town like a fool and you think that it's groovy' and the song just came together there and then."[10]

After Findon touched-up Ocean's composition "Love Really Hurts Without You" was recorded[7] at Metropolis Studios [12] to be released 23 January 1976: debuting at #34 on the UK Top 50 dated 21 February 1976, the single rose as high as #2 on the chart dated 27 March 1976, held off from #1 by "Save Your Kisses for Me" by Brotherhood of Man.[5] (Billy Ocean quote:) "I was on the [Ford assembly line] when I heard that song on Radio Luxembourg. I felt so good, because I knew I was free to leave. So I left."[13] "Love Really Hurts Without You" afforded Ocean an international hit with high rankings in national hit parades around the globe: its March 1976 US single release drew a somewhat muted response, the Billboard Hot 100 peak of "Love Really Hurts..." being #22. (Ocean would not again place a single on the Hot 100 until 1984 when "Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)" would top the chart.)[14]

"Love Really Hurts Without You" is unique among Billy Ocean's twelve Hot 100 hits in that it failed to also rank on the Billboard R&B chart, where Ocean would place an overall total of eighteen singles beginning with the followup to "Love Really Hurts...": "L.O.D (Love on Delivery)" (#55 R&B). A major factor in Ocean's "Love Really Hurts..." failing to rank as an R&B hit was that concurrent with the single's US release a cover version by Alex Brown was recorded for the Chelsea Records Roxbury label with John Madara producing.[15] After hearing Alex Brown singing on the sessions for a Wayne Newton album, Chelsea owner Wes Farrell had suggested that she cut "Love Really Hurts..." – (Alex Brown quote:) "We went in the studios that night: it was recorded by midnight and was pressed up and in the shops about three days later."[16]

The Alex Brown version of "Love Really Hurts..." debuted on the Hot Soul Singles chart in Billboard dated 8 May 1976 – the week after the Hot 100 debut of the Billy Ocean original – and despite rising no higher than #65 R&B[17] the Alex Brown version evidently satisfied the R&B market demand for "Love Really Hurts..." as the Billy Ocean version was never ranked on the Billboard R&B chart, while ranking on the Cash Box Top 100 R&B chart only for three weeks with a #91 peak reached 1 May 1976 on which chart the Brown cover reached its Cash Box R&B peak of #60.[18] Cash Box also ranked the Alex Brown version of "Love Really Hurts..." in its Looking Ahead to the Top 100 chart of singles in positions #101 – #120 at #107 (24 April 1976) and #120 (1 May 1976).[19][20] Despite Cash Box improved statistics for Brown's "Love Really Hurts..." as opposed to the single's Billboard stats, the Billy Ocean original was ranked significantly higher on the Cash Box Top 100 than on the Billboard Hot 100 as the Cash Box Top 100 afforded the single a #16 peak,[21] six positions above its best Hot 100 ranking.

In November 1986 a remixed version of Billy Ocean's "Love Really Hurts Without You" had a single release which briefly charted in the UK at #81[5] and which in March 1987 would spend one week on the Netherlands Single Top 100 at #98. On Belgium's Flemish chart – which had afforded the original Ocean version a #6 peak – the 1986 mix of "Love Really Hurts..." rose as high as #21 in January 1987. "Love Really Hurts..." has since generated two successful Belgian remakes via two distinct Flemish renderings, the first a thematic departure from the English original: "Met z'n tweetjes", recorded by Bart Kaëll which in 2013 reached #3 on the hit parade rankings for Flemish acts:[22] the track was one of eight new songs included on the Kaëll retrospective album release 30.[23] In 2015 Willy Sommers recorded a more faithful translation of "Love Really Hurts...": "Liefdesverdriet Doet Zo'n Pijn", for his album Gisteren wordt vandaag:[24] (Willy Sommers quote:) "Everyone has had to deal with heartbreak. The song has always appealed to me: despite the sad lyric there's comfort in the upbeat music."[25] Issued as the album's fifth single in March 2015, "Liefdesverdriet..." reached #15 on the hit parade rankings for Flemish acts.[26]

"Love Really Hurts Without You" has also been recorded by Bad Boys Blue (album Heart Beat/ 1986),[27] Ankie Bagger (album Where Were You Last Night/ 1989),[28] Gordon (album A Song For You/ 2008),[29] Marion Maerz (de) (as "Liebe ist mehr als ein Spiel" German) (1976),[30] Stein Ingebrigtsen (multi-artist album Treff 76-2/ 1976),[30] Dominic Kirwan (album A Little Bit More/ 2008)[31] and Six (as "Love Really Hurts") (album This Is It/ 2002).[32]

Chart performance (Billy Ocean version/ 1976)

Nation Chart Peak # Nation Chart Peak # Nation Chart Peak #
Australia Kent Music
Report Top 20 [33] 		3 Germany Musikmarkt
Top 50 [34] 		16 Norway VG-lista
Top 20 [35] 		10
Belgium
Flemish Reg.		 VRT Top 30 [36] 7 Ireland IRMA
Top 20 [37] 		3 Sweden Topplistan
Top 20 [38] 		9
Canada RPM
Top 100 [39] 		21 Netherlands Dutch Top 40 [40] 11 UK BBC Radio 1
Top 50 [41] 		2
Denmark IFPI Danmark
Top 20 [42] 		7 New Zealand RIANZ
Top 40 [43] 		13 US Billboard
Hot 100 [44] 		22

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