“Easy Lover” by Phillip Bailey

"Easy Lover" pairs Earth, Wind & Fire's Philip Bailey with Genesis's Phil Collins, and it first surfaced on Bailey's 1984 solo album Chinese Wall. The two share the lead vocal and wrote it with Nathan East, and Collins produced it and drives it from the drum stool, with East on bass, Daryl Stuermer on guitar and Lesette Wilson on keyboards: pop rock with rhythm and blues running through it.

It topped the charts in Britain for four weeks, and in Canada, the Netherlands and Ireland too, while in America it stalled at number 2 behind Foreigner's "I Want to Know What Love Is"; on his own, Bailey never had another US top 40 hit. It won the 1985 MTV Video Music Award for Best Overall Performance in a Video, and the World Wrestling Federation picked it as the theme for the first WrestleMania.

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