Slave to Love

"Slave to Love" is a song by English singer-songwriter Bryan Ferry, released as the first single from his sixth solo studio album, Boys and Girls (1985).

He performed the song at Live Aid in the London concert at Wembley Stadium in July 1985.

The song features Neil Hubbard, David Gilmour and Keith Scott on lead guitar,[2] Dire Straits' Guy Fletcher on keyboards, Omar Hakim on drums, and Tony Levin on bass guitar.

Writing for AllMusic, Bill Janovitz called "Slave to Love" an "achingly beautiful ballad" which "clearly has a 1980s aura to it, yet 'Slave to Love' was not a slave to the gimmicks of the era, sounding more timeless and classic than other radio hits from the mid-'80s.

"[3] Writing for The Guardian, Jeremy Allen likened it to Roxy Music's "Dance Away", saying that Ferry had "hit on a formula to write the same oleaginous ballad over and over again to handsome remuneration (play 'Dance Away' and 'Slave to Love' back to back and you'll see what I mean).