Higher Love
{{Short description|1986 single by Steve Winwood}}
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{{Infobox song
| name = Higher Love
| cover = Steve Winwood - Higher Love.jpeg
| caption =
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Steve Winwood
| album = Back in the High Life
| B-side = And I Go
| released = June 1986
| recorded =
| studio = Unique (New York City)
| genre = {{hlist|Soft rock{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|title=Various Artists - Roots of Rock: Soft Rock Album Reviews, Songs & More|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/roots-of-rock-soft-rock-mw0000648663|access-date=3 February 2022|publisher=AllMusic}}{{cite web|date=13 May 2022|title=Top 40 Rock Singers|url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/top-40-rock-singers/|access-date=31 July 2022|website=Ultimate Classic Rock}}|blues rock{{cite web|first= Tom |last= Breihan |title= The Number Ones: Steve Winwood's "Higher Love|website= Stereogum |date= December 28, 2020|url= https://www.stereogum.com/2111723/the-number-ones-steve-winwoods-higher-love/columns/the-number-ones/|quote= Higher Love” still sounds, to my ears, like a sleepy blues-rock song...|accessdate= September 30, 2023}}|blue-eyed soul{{cite book|last=Sullivan|first=Steve|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GQglDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA586|title=Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings|date=2017|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-4422-5449-7|page=586}}}}
| length = * 5:51 (album version)
- 4:14 (single version)
| label = Island – IS 288
| writer = * Steve Winwood
| producer = * Russ Titelman
- Steve Winwood
| prev_title = Valerie
| prev_year = 1982
| next_title = Freedom Overspill
| next_year = 1986
}}
"Higher Love" is a 1986 song by English singer Steve Winwood.{{cite magazine|magazine=Billboard|title=Steve Winwood|url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/280672/steve-winwood/chart}} It was the first single released from his fourth solo LP, Back in the High Life (1986). It was written by Winwood and Will Jennings and produced by Russ Titelman and Winwood. The background vocals were performed by Chaka Khan, who also appeared in the music video.
"Higher Love" was Winwood's first Billboard Hot 100 number-one song, topping the chart for one week beginning 30 August 1986. "Higher Love" also spent four weeks atop the US Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart and earned two Grammy Awards, for Record of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. It also peaked at number 13 in the United Kingdom, Winwood's highest charting solo entry there, and reached number one in Canada for a week.
Whitney Houston covered the song in 1990 and it was included as a bonus track on the Japanese edition of her third album I'm Your Baby Tonight. In 2016, Winwood made a version with his daughter Lilly Winwood, performing a duet for a Hershey commercial.{{cite web|title=Hershey's TV Commercial, 'My Dad' Song by Steve Winwood, Lilly Winwood|url=http://www.ispot.tv/ad/AO07/hersheys-my-dad-song-by-steve-winwood-lilly-winwood|website=Ispot.tv|access-date=15 February 2016|archive-date=13 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160213103551/http://www.ispot.tv/ad/AO07/hersheys-my-dad-song-by-steve-winwood-lilly-winwood|url-status=live}} Norwegian DJ Kygo reworked Houston's cover into a tropical house track in 2019, which was released as a single worldwide{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/whitney-houstons-first-posthumous-release-in-seven-years-announced-as-kygo-collaboration-higher-love__26740/|title=Whitney Houston's first posthumous release in seven years announced as Kygo collaboration Higher Love|publisher=Official Charts Company|last=White|first=Jack|date=27 June 2019|access-date=28 June 2019}} and hit number one on Billboard magazine's Dance Club Songs chart, making it Houston's highest-charting posthumous release to date.
Background
Winwood recorded the album Back in the High Life at several studios in New York City, ending up at Unique Recording Studios where Tom Lord-Alge was engineering with his brothers. To round out the sounds on "Higher Love", producer Russ Titelman brought in two members of the funk/soul band Rufus: singer Chaka Khan and her drummer John 'JR' Robinson. After recording his drum parts and while waiting for Khan to get set up, JR played an impromptu drum fill which Lord-Alge caught on tape. Lord-Alge connected this drum fill to the beginning of "Higher Love", by assigning a timing offset to one of two tape machines such that they first played the drum fill followed by the song coming in on the beat.{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-xQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA38 |page=38 |title=Chris and Tom Lord-Alge |first=Paul |last=Verna |date=5 November 2005 |magazine=Billboard |volume=117 |number=45 |issn=0006-2510 }} Titelman was happy with the result and decided to open the album with this drum fill. JR used a Latin rimshot technique across the top of his classic seamless brass Ludwig Black Beauty snare, unmuffled, with its snare wires disengaged, to emulate the sound of a timbale. He said, "it's one of the best drum intros I've ever played."{{cite magazine |url=https://www.moderndrummer.com/article/june-1987-john-robinson/ |first=Rick |last=Mattingly |title=John Robinson |magazine=Modern Drummer |date=June 1987 |number=91 |pages=16–21, 48–53 }}
Titelman remembered the fill being played ad lib by JR while Khan was preparing to sing her background vocals on "Higher Love", causing Khan to exclaim "What is that shit? It sounds like voodoo shit!"{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qQkEAAAAMBAJ |pages=41–54 |title='Please Don't Wake Me' |first=Timothy |last=White |author-link=Timothy White (writer) |date=22 June 1996 |magazine=Billboard |volume=108 |number=25 |issn=0006-2510 }} Lord-Alge agreed that the drum fill was played as a lark after JR completed his drum overdubs for "Higher Love". Tom said, "It was one of those happy accidents, and it happened because [sound engineer brother] Chris always taught me that if the tape is rolling and there's a musician in the studio, make sure the tape machine is in record!"
Music video
The music video for the song uses the shorter single version and was shot in June 1986 by directors Peter Kagan and Paula Greif. Kagan and Greif shot an almost identical video for Duran Duran's "Notorious" in November of that year; coincidentally, both videos were nominated for several awards at the 1987 MTV Video Music Awards though neither won.{{cite web |url=https://apnews.com/bf0b4a2d93f0d919bebff3bb8388fed5 |title=Peter Gabriel Effort Chosen As Video Of The Year |first=Richard |last=de Atley |date=11 September 1987 |publisher=Associated Press}} Chaka Khan appears in the video, as does Nile Rodgers, who plays guitar with the backing band.
Track listings
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- 7-inch: Island / IS 288 United Kingdom
- "Higher Love" – 4:14
- "And I Go" – 4:12
- 7-inch: Island / 7-28710 United States
- "Higher Love" – 4:14
- "And I Go" – 4:12
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- 12-inch: Island / 12 IS 288 United Kingdom
- "Higher Love" (remix) – 7:45
- "Higher Love" (instrumental) – 6:05
- "And I Go" – 4:12
* Tracks one and two remixed by Tom Lord-Alge
- 12-inch: Island / PRO-A-2507 United States
- "Higher Love" (edit) – 4:08
- "Higher Love" (LP version) – 5:45
- US promo 12-inch
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Personnel
- Steve Winwood – lead and backing vocals, synthesizer, sequencer programming, and Oberheim DMX programming
- Chaka Khan – backing vocals
- Nile Rodgers – rhythm guitar
- Robbie Kilgore – synthesizer and sequencer programming
- Andrew Thomas – PPG Waveterm synthesizer programming
- David Frank – synthesizer horns and synth horn arrangement
- Philippe Saisse – synthesizer bass
- Eddie Martinez – lead guitar
- John Robinson – drums
- Jimmy Bralower – Oberheim DMX programming
- Carole Steele – congas, tambourine
Charts
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=Weekly charts=
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!Chart (1986–1987) !Peak |
| scope="row"|Australia (Kent Music Report){{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=342}} N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 12 June 1988.
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| {{single chart|Flanders|31|artist=Steve Winwood|song=Higher Love|rowheader=true|access-date=3 May 2019|refname=}} |
| {{single chart|Canadatopsingles|1|chartid=0725|rowheader=true|access-date=3 May 2019|artist=|song=|refname=}} |
| {{single chart|Canadaadultcontemporary|7|chartid=8279|rowheader=true|access-date=3 May 2019|artist=|song=|refname=}} |
| scope="row"|Europe (European Hot 100 Singles){{cite magazine|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Music-and-Media/80s/1986/M&M-1986-08-09.pdf|title=European Hot 100 Singles|magazine=Music & Media|volume=3|issue=31|page=4 (of PDF)|date=9 August 1986|access-date=27 July 2020}}
|19 |
| scope="row"|Finland (Suomen virallinen lista){{cite book|url=https://musiikkiarkisto.fi/oa/_tiedostot/julkaisut/sisaltaa-hitin.pdf#page=284|first=Timo|last=Pennanen|year=2021|title=Sisältää hitin - 2. laitos Levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla 1.1.1960–30.6.2021|section=Steve Winwood|page=284|publisher=Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava|location=Helsinki|access-date=12 July 2022|language=fi}}
|13 |
| {{single chart|Ireland2|11|song=Higher Love|rowheader=true|access-date=15 July 2019|artist=|refname=}} |
| {{single chart|Dutch40|24|year=1986|week=33|rowheader=true|access-date=3 May 2019|artist=|song=|refname=}} |
| {{single chart|Dutch100|26|artist=Steve Winwood|song=Higher Love|rowheader=true|access-date=3 May 2019|refname=}} |
| {{single chart|New Zealand|11|artist=Steve Winwood|song=Higher Love|rowheader=true|access-date=3 May 2019|refname=}} |
| scope="row"|South Africa (Springbok Radio){{cite web|url=http://rock.co.za/files/sa_charts_1969_1989_songs_(H-I).html|title=SA Charts 1965 - 1989 Songs H-I|website=South African Rock Lists|access-date=3 May 2019}}
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| {{single chart|UK|13|date=19860726|rowheader=true|access-date=3 May 2019|artist=|song=|refname=}} |
| {{single chart|Billboardhot100|1|artist=Steve Winwood|rowheader=true|access-date=3 May 2019|song=|refname=}} |
| {{single chart|Billboardadultcontemporary|7|artist=Steve Winwood|rowheader=true|access-date=3 May 2019|song=|refname=}} |
| {{single chart|Billboardmainstreamrock|1|artist=Steve Winwood|rowheader=true|access-date=3 May 2019|song=|refname=}} |
| {{single chart|West Germany|49|artist=Steve Winwood|song=Higher Love|songid=12761|rowheader=true|access-date=3 May 2019|refname=}} |
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Certifications
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{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=single|artist=Steve Winwood|title=Higher Love|award=Gold|relyear=2005|certyear=2022|id=13447-913-1|access-date=20 August 2022}}
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James Vincent McMorrow version
James Vincent McMorrow recorded a cover of the song for his charity album 'Silver Lining' which was recorded and produced by the students of Sound Training Centre in Dublin for the charity Headstrong.{{cite web|url=https://soundcloud.com/sound-training-centre|title=Soundcloud.com}} The cover was used as the soundtrack for television advertisements in the UK by LoveFilm in 2011.
=Chart performance=
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| {{single chart|Ireland2|4|artist=James Vincent McMorrow|song=Higher Love|access-date=2024-16-06 | refname=ire}} |
| {{single chart|Scotland|22|artist=James Vincent McMorrow|song=Higher Love|date=2012-01-14}} | |
| {{single chart|UKindie|1|artist=James Vincent McMorrow|song=Higher Love|date=2012-01-14}} | |
| {{single chart|UK|21|artist=James Vincent McMorrow|song=Do You Feel What I Feel?|date=2012-01-14}} |
Kygo and Whitney Houston version
{{Infobox song
| name = Higher Love
| cover = Kygo and Whitney Houston - Higher Love.png
| alt = Black-and-white faces of Kygo and Houston above the title "Higher Love" and below it is the words Kygo X Whitney Houston.
| type = single
| artist = Kygo and Whitney Houston
| album = Golden Hour {{noitalic|and}} I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston
| released = {{Start date|2019|06|28|df=y}}
| recorded = * December 1989
(Houston's vocals)
- December 2018
(Kygo's arrangement)
| studio =
- Right Track Recording (New York, NY) (Houston's vocals)
- Tarpan Studios (San Rafael, CA) (Kygo's arrangement)
| genre = Tropical house{{cite web|url=https://whenthingsgopop.com/2019/06/28/kygo-does-whitney-houston-justice-on-higher-love-remix/|title=Kygo Does Whitney Houston Justice on "Higher Love" Remix|last=Lewis|first=Brandon|website=When Things Go Pop|date=28 June 2019|access-date=21 July 2019}}
| length = {{duration|m=3|s=48}}
| label = RCA
| writer = {{hlist|Steve Winwood|Will Jennings}}
| producer = {{hlist|Kygo|Narada Michael Walden}}
| chronology = Kygo
| prev_title = Kem kan eg ringe
| prev_year = 2019
| next_title = Family
| next_year = 2019
| misc = {{Extra chronology
| artist = Whitney Houston
| type = single
| prev_title = Memories
| prev_year = 2016
| title = Higher Love
| year = 2019
| next_title = How Will I Know (Whitney × Clean Bandit)
| next_year = 2021
}}
{{External music video|{{YouTube|JR49dyo-y0E|"Higher Love"}}}}
}}
A cover of "Higher Love" was released as a single by Norwegian DJ and record producer Kygo and late American singer Whitney Houston on 28 June 2019. The song was released to streaming and digital download formats on 28 June 2019 by the label RCA Records. The song is the lead single from Kygo's third studio album, Golden Hour. The song was also featured in a Ford Summer Sales Event commercial in 2020.
Houston's cover of the Winwood track was originally included on the Japanese edition of her third studio album, I'm Your Baby Tonight (1990). This version of the track was produced by American musician Narada Michael Walden, and therefore Walden is credited as a producer of "Higher Love" alongside Kygo.{{cite web | url=https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/whitney-houstons-first-posthumous-release-in-seven-years-announced-as-kygo-collaboration-higher-love__26740/ | title=Whitney Houston's first posthumous release in seven years announced as Kygo collaboration Higher Love | date=27 June 2019 | publisher=Official Charts Company | access-date=27 June 2019 | last=White |first=Jack}}{{cite web |last=Østbø |first=Stein |date=26 June 2019 |title=Kygo + Whitney Houston er sant! |trans-title=Kygo + Whitney Houston is true! |url=https://www.vg.no/rampelys/musikk/i/kJBeJk/kygo-whitney-houston-er-sant |access-date=27 June 2019 |website=VG |language=no}} Houston performed her rendition of "Higher Love" at the 14 dates of her 1990 Feels So Right Tour in Japan.
In the UK, "Higher Love" was a commercial success, surpassing the Winwood version in terms of chart performance. It peaked at number two in the UK Singles Chart, making it Kygo's third top ten song there and first to reach the nation's top five, and Houston's eighteenth to peak within the top ten. It is also Houston's first posthumous top 10 track. She had last reached the top ten with "Million Dollar Bill" charting at number five in October 2009. Therefore, "Higher Love" became her highest-charting single in the UK since 1999 when "My Love Is Your Love" peaked at number two. In Scotland, the song peaked at number one.
Since its release, "Higher Love" has reached the top five in Croatia, Flanders, Ireland, Israel, Latvia, Norway, Slovakia, and Slovenia, plus the top ten in the Netherlands, Hungary, Sweden, and Switzerland. It also hit the top twenty charts in Australia, Austria, China, Czech Republic, and Wallonia. In the U.S., "Higher Love" debuted at number 63 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with 6.6 million US streams in its first week;{{Cite magazine |last=Trust |first=Gary |date=July 8, 2019 |title=Whitney Houston Earns First Hot 100 Debut in 10 Years With Kygo Collab 'Higher Love' |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8518917/whitney-houston-first-hot-100-debut-10-years-kygo-higher-love |magazine=Billboard |access-date=25 August 2019}} it was also its peak position. The song topped Billboard
In September 2020, the song was nominated at the Billboard Music Awards for Top Dance/Electronic Song.{{Cite magazine |last=Aniftos |first=Rania |date=22 September 2020 |title=Post Malone Leads 2020 Billboard Music Awards Nominations With 16: Full List |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/bbma/9453361/2020-billboard-music-awards-nominations-list |magazine=Billboard |access-date=26 September 2020}} The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) would certify the single double platinum in the US.
Notably, "Higher Love" was played immediately following Joe Biden's victory speech after his election as the 46th President of the United States on 7 November 2020. Writing for Billboard, Katie Bain described the song's use in a political setting: "Indeed, after Biden shared his vision of 'a nation united, a nation strengthened. A nation healed, 'Higher Love' backed up the message, particularly for those who know all the words... Few sentiments could so effectively summarize the weary travails of the American collective consciousness during the past four years."{{Cite magazine |last=Bain |first=Katie |date=9 November 2020 |title=There Must Be Higher Love: The Significance of Biden's Victory Speech Closing With a Kygo Track |url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/dance/9480952/kygo-biden-higher-love-significance-analysis |magazine=Billboard |language=en |access-date=10 November 2020}}
The song also appears on the US and European vinyl edition of Houston's hits compilation album, I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston released in October 2021 on RCA Records.
=Music video=
The official video, directed by Hannah Lux Davis, was made available on YouTube on 26 August 2019.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/whitney-houston-kygo-higher-love-vanessa-morgan-875757/|title=Watch Whitney Houston, Kygo's Eighties-Inspired 'Higher Love' Video|last=Spanos|first=Brittany|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=26 August 2019|access-date=10 March 2020}} It begins with a group of men in modern clothing walking through seemingly abandoned warehouses. They are impressed to see a 1980s aerobics class led by an instructor played by Canadian actress Vanessa Morgan. After initially being shooed away, the male lead walks into the room and suddenly wears a 1980s aerobics outfit. He starts dancing with the female lead and is eventually joined by his male companions.
The video has brief snippets of Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" music video showing on a TV along with posters of her from the 1987 Whitney album on the wall. In the end, the instructor is accidentally kicked in the face by one of the dancers and wakes up in a present-day outdoor café, revealing that the 1980s aerobics class was just a dream and that the male lead is actually her waiter.
=Personnel=
- Whitney Houston – lead vocals, backing vocals/arrangement, vocal production
- Narada Michael Walden – backing vocals arrangement, producer, arranger
- Kygo – producer, remixer, arranger
- Claytoven Richardson, Jeanie Tracy, Anne Stocking, Larry Batiste, Skyler Jett, Kitty Beethoven, Cynthia Shiloh, Greg "Gigi" Gonaway, Raz Kennedy, Cornell "CC" Carter, Lydette Stephens, Renee Cattaneo, Tina Thompson, Sylvester Jackson – backing vocals
=Charts=
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==Year-end charts==
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| scope="row"| Estonia Airplay (TopHit){{cite web|url=https://tophit.com/chart/top/radio/hits/ee/annual/2024|title=Top Radio Hits Estonia Annual Chart: 2024|publisher=TopHit|access-date=10 February 2025}}
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=Certifications=
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{{Certification Table Entry|region=Australia|type=single|award=Platinum|number=3|relyear=2019|certyear=2020|access-date=12 November 2021}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Austria|artist=Kygo & Whitney Houston|title=Higher Love|type=single|award=Platinum|relyear=2019|certyear=2022|access-date=24 January 2022}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Belgium|award=Platinum|type=single|relyear=2019|certyear=2020|access-date=19 June 2020}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Canada|artist=Kygo & Whitney Houston|title=Higher Love|type=single|award=Platinum|number=2|relyear=2019|certyear=2020|access-date=27 June 2020}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Denmark|artist=Kygo & Whitney Houston|title=Higher Love|type=single|award=Platinum|number=2|relyear=2019|certyear=2024|id= 13922|access-date=28 May 2024}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=France|artist=Whitney Houston|title=Higher Love|type=single|award=Platinum|relyear=2019|certyear=2021|access-date=9 May 2022}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Germany|artist=Kygo & Whitney Houston|title=Higher Love|award=Platinum|type=single|relyear=2019|certyear=2023|access-date=17 February 2023}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Italy|artist=Kygo & Whitney Houston|title=Higher Love|type=single|award=Platinum|relyear=2019|certyear=2023|id=11622|access-date=13 November 2023}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Mexico|artist=Kygo & Whitney Houston|title=Higher Love|award=Platinum|number=1|type=single|relyear=2019|certyear=2021|certmonth=7|access-date=3 June 2021}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=New Zealand|artist=Kygo x Whitney Houston|title=Higher Love|award=Platinum|number=3|type=single|relyear=2019|certyear=2023|source=radioscope|access-date=31 December 2024}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Poland|artist=Kygo feat. Whitney Houston|title=Higher Love|award=Platinum|number=2|type=single|relyear=2019|certyear=2021|certmonth=7|access-date=28 July 2021}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Spain|artist=Kygo / Whitney Houston|title=Higher Love|award=Platinum|type=single|relyear=2019|certyear=2024|refname=hlspain|access-date=12 January 2024}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Switzerland|artist=Kygo x Whitney Houston|title=Higher Love|award=Platinum|type=single|relyear=2019|certyear=2020|access-date=11 March 2021}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|type=single|award=Platinum|number=3|artist=Kygo & Whitney Houston|title=Higher Love|relyear=2019|certyear=2023|id=13447-5040-1|access-date=19 May 2023}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|type=single|award=Platinum|number=2|artist=Kygo & Whitney Houston|title=Higher Love|relyear=2019|certyear=2022|access-date=21 January 2022}}
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See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.stevewinwood.com/releases/w.bhighlife.full.html Steve Winwood website album details]
- [http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=6504 Songfacts - Back In The High Life Again entry]
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