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}}
References
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