"Where Love Lives (Come On In)" is a song by British singer-songwriter and former dancer Alison Limerick, released first time in November 1990.

But ‘Where Love Lives’ turned me into a focused artist after years spent as a jobbing singer, dancer and actress.

She performed in the musical Labelled with Love and as a backing vocalist in the mid-80s after attending the London Contemporary School of Dance.

She appeared in musicals including Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Starlight Express and Simon Callow’s The Pajama Game.

For the first time "Where Love Lives" was released in America and it reached number four in the Billboard Hot Dance 100 chart.

In 2016, Limerick joined music collective Brooklyn Funk Essentials as lead singer and together they released a new version of "Where Love Lives" via Dorado Records in 2018.

However, after becoming a successful club hit, a re-release some months later in 1991 ensured the song entering the UK Top 30, when it peaked at number 27.

Another release of the track, remixed by Dancing Divas (an alias of UK music producer Ian Bland) charted in 1996.

This version was even more successful, peaking at its first week on the UK Singles Chart at number nine, on 30 June, becoming Limerick's highest-charting hit to date.

In 2003, a new remix of "Where Love Lives" by UK dance producer duo Northstarz peaked and debuted at number 44 on 15 March.

The song was also a huge dance/club hit in the United States, peaking at number three on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in 1991.

[15] NME named it Single of the Week, writing, "An energetic dancefloor smash that would sound merely like Adeva in a strop were it not for the accompanying music's unusual and compelling rhythmic contortions.

With its instantly recognisable piano intro, the record is currently a big buzz on the dancefloors, but it's also a cracking good tune.

"[17] Peter Stanton from Record Mirror wrote, "Ms Limerick might be an unheard-of entity to many, but she has become a humungous floorfiller on the club circuit over the last few months with her achingly danceable track 'Where Love Lives'.

This ripe beauty of a number failed to ignite the charts on its first release last November, but the idle public are being given a second chance-to-purchase option."

[1] Another Record Mirror editor, James Hamilton, called it a "genuinely massive floorfiller" and a "pelvis-twitching sinewy girl's piano jangled then sparsely pulsing attractive canterer".

[19] Upon the release of the 1996 remix, Flick of Billboard said, "Needless to say, the Dancing Divaz mix crackles with hi-NRG vigor and will effectively flirt with radio programmers who missed the boat the first time.

The music video features Limerick performing with dancers moving both in front of and behind a bright backdrop, making shadow-dancing silhouettes.

[26] British DJ Danny Rampling picked "Where Love Lives" as one of his "classic cuts" in 1994, saying, "The greatest Knuckles and Morales mixes.

[27] British DJ Fat Tony selected it as one of his "classic cuts" in 1995, adding, "I was one of the first people to have it – someone stole a test pressing for me.

"[28] British DJ, music producer and radio presenter Pete Tong chose it as one of his favourites in 1995, stating, "Morales and Knuckles together at their best.

"[32] BBC Radio’s 2008 listeners & DJs poll "The Greatest Ever Dance Record", "Where Love Lives" came in at number five, after Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean", James Brown's "Sex Machine", Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" and Derrick May's "Strings of Life".

It starts with the kind of piano that makes real club people dance, and continues for several bars without a single drum beat.

Then the rhythm machines enter, ensuring that every DJ capable of matching beats could smoothly mix in from the next record if they didn't dare to start with the bare piano.

As the track progresses, the sound ebbs and flows as if it had been orchestrated with real instruments, as if disco hadn't died at all.

"I'll take you down, deep down where love lives," Limerick growls in a way that doesn't leave any place for doubt.

UK singer Alison Limerick's rich vocal lines are layered over upfront house beats, creating the perfect crossover record, aimed right at the mainstream, but still retaining the dance music credentials of all involved.