“Lessons In Love” by Level 42

"Lessons in Love" was the lead single from Running in the Family, the seventh album by English jazz-funk band Level 42, and it grew out of a throwaway. The melody began as a coda the band tacked onto a live "Physical Presence", from World Machine, on The Tube in October 1985. Bassist Mark King roughed out a verse, chorus and bridge on a Sony digital recorder just after Christmas that year, and in January he and producer Wally Badarou decided the chorus was weak. Badarou turned the chorus chords around and handed King a new vocal line, and that fixed it.

The credits share the writing among Badarou, King and Boon Gould. It became the band's biggest hit at home, reaching three in the UK, topped the charts in Denmark, Finland, Spain, Switzerland, West Germany and South Africa, and got to 12 on the Hot 100.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.