Heaven's Not for Saints

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{{Infobox song

| name = Heaven's Not for Saints (Let It Go)

| cover =

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Morten Harket

| album =

| B-side =

| released = 27 May 1996

| recorded = 1996

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Alternative rock

| length = 3:28

| label = BMG Arista

| writer = Morten Harket, Håvard Rem and Ole Sverre Olsen

| producer = Steve Lovell

| prev_title = Los Angeles

| prev_year = 1996

| next_title = Tilbake Til Livet

| next_year = 1996

}}

"Heaven's Not for Saints (Let It Go)" is a song by Morten Harket, released as a non-album single in 1996.

The single was released in the UK and Norway only and was Harket's first release on the record label BMG Arista.https://archive.today/20120729032049/http://www.darsu.btinternet.co.uk/discography/mharket/hnfs.htm{{dead link|date=November 2012|bot=Legobot}} It reached number 9 on the Norwegian charts.{{cite web|title=norwegiancharts.com: Morten Harket|url=http://norwegiancharts.com/showinterpret.asp?interpret=Morten+Harket|accessdate=21 April 2012}}

It was performed as the opening act for Eurovision 1996, which Harket hosted with Ingvild Bryn.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APppXYv9CSM Eurovision 1996 Opening]

Critical reception

Upon its release in the UK, Daniel Booth of Melody Maker called it "OK, in a melancholy Scandinavian version of sub-U2 navel-gazing kind of way".{{cite magazine |last=Booth |first=Daniel |title=Singles |magazine=Melody Maker |date=25 May 1996 |page=54 |issn=0025-9012}}

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