Love & Pride

"Love & Pride"
Single by King
from the album Steps in Time
Released	April 1984
Format	12", 7"
Recorded	1984
Genre	New wave, synthpop, 2 Tone
Length	3:20
Label	CBS Records
Producer(s)	Richard James Burgess
King singles chronology
"Love & Pride" (1984) "Soul On My Boots" (1984)

"Love & Pride" is the debut single by Coventry band King, produced by Richard James Burgess from their first studio album Steps in Time (1984). It was released in August 1984 and reached a chart ranking of #84 on the UK Singles Chart in May. When the group performed the song on Saturday morning television towards the end of the year, the single was re-released and became a hit in early 1985, reaching number two in the charts for three consecutive weeks and only being held off the top spot by "I Know Him So Well", a duet by Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson for the musical Chess. It later climbed to a peak of number 55 in the US Billboard Hot 100 in August 1985. Richard James Burgess remixed the single several times for B-sides and 12 inch versions and these fueled the international club success of the single and subsequent album, Steps in Time. The dance mixes of "Love & Pride" pushed it to a peak position of seventeen on the American dance charts. In this song a Prophet 5 synthesizer is used.

British electronic band Cicada sampled portions of this song on their song "Woh" off their 2011 album Sunburst.

Chart performance

Chart (1985)	Peak position
Australian Kent Music Report	8
Austrian Singles Chart	21
Belgian Singles Chart	3
Dutch Top 40	2
German Singles Chart	8
Irish Singles Chart	3
New Zealand Singles Chart	24
Swiss Singles Chart	3
UK Singles Chart	2
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	55

Track listing

7" single

• Side A: "Love & Pride" (3:20)
• Side B: "Don't Stop" (4:15)