Love Is Like Oxygen

{{Infobox song

| name = Love Is Like Oxygen

| cover = Sweet-Love is Like Oxygen.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Sweet

| album = Level Headed

| B-side = Cover Girl

| released = 6 January 1978{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/release/11470752-Sweet-The-Polydor-Albums|title=Sweet - The Polydor Albums|date=1 December 2017|access-date=30 October 2023|website=Discogs.com}}

| recorded = 1977

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = {{hlist|Glam rock{{AllMusic|class=song|id=mt0029995598|label=Song Review by Dave Thompson|first=Dave|last=Thompson|access-date=12 March 2016}}{{cite book|author=Don Breithaupt|title=Steely Dan's Aja|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hjHUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA87|date=15 May 2007|publisher=A & C Black|isbn=978-0-8264-2783-0|page=87}}|power pop{{cite book|author1=Kim Cooper|author2=David Smay|title=Bubblegum Music is the Naked Truth|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X4Y5NIyCikIC|year=2001|publisher=Feral House|isbn=978-0-922915-69-9|page=299}}|disco-rock{{cite web|first= Tom |last= Breihan |title= The Number Ones: The Rolling Stones' "Miss You"|website= Stereogum |date= December 20, 2019 |url= https://www.stereogum.com/2068123/the-number-ones-the-rolling-stones-miss-you/columns/the-number-ones/|quote= “Love Is Like Oxygen” attempted to fuse slick, nervy disco stomp with the gleaming studio-rock of bands like Boston...|access-date= July 7, 2023}}}}

| length = {{unbulleted list|{{Duration|m=6|s=57}} {{small|(album version)}}|{{Duration|m=3|s=46}} {{small|(single version)}}}}

| label = {{hlist|Polydor|Capitol}}

| writer = {{hlist|Andy Scott|Trevor Griffin}}

| producer = Sweet

| prev_title = Funk It Up

| prev_year = 1977

| next_title = California Nights

| next_year = 1978

| misc = {{Extra album cover

| header = "Love Is Like Oxygen"

| type = single

| cover = Sweet-Love Is Like Oxygen (France).jpg

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| caption = France single

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| header = "Love Is Like Oxygen"

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| cover = Sweet-Love Is Like Oxygen (Netherlands).jpg

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"Love Is Like Oxygen" is a song by English glam rock band Sweet and released in January 1978. It was co-written by the group's guitarist Andy Scott, and Trevor Griffin, a musician who had played with various unsuccessful bands before becoming a roadie and sound engineer.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/trevor-griffin-mn0001220136#biography|work=AllMusic|title=Trevor Griffin Biography|author= Bruce Eder}} The song was a departure from earlier recordings by Sweet, which were more guitar-driven, and featured high vocal harmonies. The extended album version of the song (6 minutes 57 seconds), which appeared on their album Level Headed, incorporates strings and has some disco elements.

Their first release on the Polydor label after their departure from RCA, it was also their last Top 10 hit, reaching No. 4 in New Zealand; No. 6 in Switzerland; No. 8 in Belgium, Canada, and the United States; No. 9 in the United Kingdom and Australia; and No. 10 in West Germany.

Later that year it was honoured with a Song of the Year nomination at the Ivor Novello Awards, but it lost to "Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty. The song is frequently included on greatest hits compilations, usually in its edited single version.