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Set Your Loving Free

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Recorded
  
1991

Length
  
5:03

Genre
  
R&B soul pop dance

Label
  
Arista

Released
  
25 May 1992 (1992-05-25)

Format
  
CD single cassette single 7" single 12" single

"Set Your Loving Free" is a song recorded by British singer Lisa Stansfield for her 1991 album, Real Love. It was written by Stansfield, Ian Devaney and Andy Morris, and produced by Devaney and Morris.

The song received positive reviews from music critics. "Set Your Loving Free" was released as the fourth European single on 25 May 1992. It included "Whenever You're Gone," featured on the Japanese edition of Real Love only. The Nick Brandt-directed music video, starring Linus Roache, was also released. The song reached number twenty-eight in the United Kingdom and number twenty on the Hot Dance Club Songs in the United States, where it was released as B-side of "A Little More Love." "Set Your Loving Free" was remixed by Masters at Work (Little Louie Vega and Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez).

In 2003, it was included on Biography: The Greatest Hits. In 2014, the remixes of "Set Your Loving Free" and "Whenever You're Gone" were also included on the deluxe 2CD + DVD re-release of Real Love and on People Hold On ... The Remix Anthology (also on The Collection 1989–2003).

Track listings

European 7" single

  1. "Set Your Loving Free" (Edit) – 4:09
  2. "Whenever You're Gone" – 4:06

European CD maxi-single

  1. "Set Your Loving Free" (Edit) – 4:09
  2. "Whenever You're Gone" – 4:06
  3. "Set Your Loving Free" (Kenlou 12") – 7:26

European 12" single

  1. "Set Your Loving Free" (Kenlou 12") – 7:26
  2. "Set Your Loving Free" (Extended Version) – 6:00
  3. "Make Love to Ya" (The Floor Mix) – 6:26
  4. "Make Love to Ya" (Light Me Up Mix) – 5:02

European promotional CD single

  1. "Set Your Loving Free" (Kenlou 12") – 7:26
  2. "Set Your Loving Free" (Extended Version) – 6:00
  3. "Make Love to Ya" (The Floor Mix) – 6:26
  4. "Make Love to Ya" (Light Me Up Mix) – 5:02
  5. "Set Your Loving Free" (Dubmaster Edit) – 4:41
  6. "Set Your Loving Free" (Lowlife Mix) – 5:46
  7. "Set Your Loving Free" (Dub "Masters at Work") – 7:26
  8. "Set Your Loving Free" (Mellow Mix) – 4:52

References

Set Your Loving Free Wikipedia
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