Album · Love and Money
All You Need Is… by Love and Money
All You Need Is… is an album by Love and Money, released in 1986. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 1 countdown appearance in total. The biggest is “Candybar Express”, on 1 list with a best position of #101.
All You Need Is..., Love and Money's 1986 debut on Mercury, came from a Glasgow band formed the year before out of the ashes of Friends Again: singer, songwriter and guitarist James Grant, drummer Stuart Kerr and keyboard player Paul McGeechan, joined by bassist Bobby Paterson, formerly of Set the Tone. The ambition was slick, glossy dance-rock with a soul-funk swing, the kind of record built to cross over.
It didn't. The first single, "Candybar Express", scraped to No. 56 in Britain in May 1986, and "Dear John", "River of People" and a single named after the band, "Love and Money", followed without making the album sell. Roger Holland of Sounds felt it was too calculated a bid for pop perfection to succeed. Grant himself was no fan: in 1993 he admitted he couldn't bear to listen to it.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from All You Need Is… on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Candybar Express | 1 | #101 | – | 1986 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.