My Forbidden Lover

"My Forbidden Lover"
Single by Chic
from the album Risqué
B-side "What About Me?"
Released 1979
Format
Recorded 1979
Genre Disco
Length 4:39
Label Atlantic (3620)
Writer(s)
Producer(s)
  • Bernard Edwards
  • Nile Rodgers
Chic singles chronology
"Good Times"
(1979)
"My Forbidden Lover"
(1979)
"My Feet Keep Dancing"
(1979)

"My Forbidden Lover" is the second single from Chic's 1979 album Risqué. The song was written and produced by Chic's two frontmen, Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers.

The song's backing track has been sampled in the 2001 Alcazar song "Sexual Guarantee", the 2006 Luther Vandross song "Shine" (along with its cover by Booty Luv), the Darryl Pandy song "Sunshine & Happiness", and the 2010 The Black Eyed Peas song "Fashion Beats".

Canadian producer deadmau5 sampled this song in one of his early works, I Don't Want No Other, released on his SectionZ page in 2001.

Charts

Chart (1979) Peak
position
United Kingdom 15
Belgium 19
Netherlands 23
Ireland 28
Germany 47

Track listings

US promo 12" single including the extended version of "My Forbidden Lover".
Atlantic 7" 3620 September 18, 1979
Atlantic promo 12" DSKO 207, 1979

Chart

The song reached #15 on the UK pop charts in October 1979, spending 8 weeks on the chart. On US disco chart, along with the tracks, "Good Times" and "My Feet Keep Dancing", "My Forbidden Lover" went to #3.[1] It failed to enter the US Billboard top 40 pop chart.

References

  1. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Hot Dance/Disco: 1974-2003. Record Research. p. 56.


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