It finally saw release in the United States and Canada in January 1986 but despite rising to number one in Canada, 'The Power of Love' failed to become a significant US hit, stalling at number 57 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending of April 5, 1986, and spending 13 weeks within the Hot 100. Eventually 'The Power of Love' reached number one in Australia, Austria, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa and Spain (where Rush topped the chart with a version in Spanish called 'Si tГє eres mi hombre y yo tu mujer', translated as 'If you are my man and I'm your woman'), number three in Switzerland, Sweden and Belgium, and number seven in the Netherlands.Д¬BS held off on releasing 'The Power of Love' in North America feeling the disc was too European. The massive success of 'The Power of Love' in the UK followed with widespread international success for the single in the last months of 1985 and the first of 1986, including a German re-release with a resultant number-nine charting. The success of the song saw Rush perform it live on the BBCвЂ™s Top of the Pops in late 1985. As of March 2017, it had sold 1.45 million copies in the UK. In June 1985, 'The Power of Love' was issued as a single in the United Kingdom, where it topped the chart for five weeks in October 1985 and became the best-selling single of the year. It was released as a single in West Germany in December 1984. This was a year after the band Frankie Goes to Hollywood conceived a song with the same title.

'The Power of Love' was first recorded in Frankfurt, West Germany by Jennifer Rush for her 1984 eponymous album. The song has been translated into several languages, becoming a pop standard. It also topped the charts in several other European countries, as well as Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.Дion's cover version peaked at number one in the United States, Canada and Australia in 1994. Recorded in Frankfurt, Germany (where Rush is based) and released in West Germany without much success in late 1984, Rush's original version reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in October 1985 and subsequently became the biggest-selling single of the year in the UK as Rush became the first female artist ever to have a million-selling single in the UK-it became the ninth best-selling single of the decade. It has since been covered by Air Supply, Laura Branigan and Celine Dion. ' The Power of Love' is a song co-written and originally recorded by American singer Jennifer Rush in 1984.

The вЂњultimate mixвЂќ and an outtake of вЂњPower To The PeopleвЂќ feature on the Imagine: The Ultimate Collection.Cover art for the original UK 7-inch single In America, the record, with a different Yoko song, вЂњTouch Me,вЂќ came out on March 22 and it made the Hot 100 on April 3 and climbed to No.11 shortly afterward. It entered the UK chart on March 20 and eventually made No.7. Rather than re-record it, the song was remixed with heavy echo to cover what the record label felt were the offending lyrics. Originally slated for release on March 5, 1971, in the UK, it got delayed by a week after EMI objected to some of the lyrics to Yoko OnoвЂ™s вЂњOpen Your BoxвЂќ that was on the b-side. вЂњPower To The PeopleвЂќ was completed between February 11 and 16 at Abbey Road Studios, during some early work on the album that became Imagine, with a band consisting of Klaus Voormann on bass, Billy Preston on piano and keyboards, Bobby Keys on saxophone and because Ringo was on holiday, Derek and the DominosвЂ™ Jim Gordon stepped in to play drums among the backing singers were Yoko and Rosetta Hightower. According to John, вЂњI wrote вЂPower to the PeopleвЂ™ the same way I wrote вЂGive Peace a Chance,вЂ™ as something for the people to sing. Almost immediately John began writing a song inspired by the interview and the day afterward began work on the song at Ascot Sound Studios.

After John and Yoko returned to the UK from Japan in January 1971, they gave an interview to political activists Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn of the Marxist newspaper Red Mole.

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