Artist: SADE
Album: LOVERS ROCK (CD)

Release date: 2000
EAN/UPS: 5099750076620
Media type: CD

Lovers Rock is the fifth studio album (sixth overall) by the English group Sade, released on 14 November 2000 by Epic Records. The album reached number eighteen on the UK Albums Chart and number three on the U.S. Billboard 200—it has since been certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. On 27 February 2002, the album earned Sade the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album.

According to the booklet, the track "The Sweetest Gift" is dedicated to the Rainbow Trust Children's Charity caring for children who have a life-threatening or terminal illness and their families, both in their own homes and at the Trust's two UK family respite centres.

All songs written by Sade Adu, Andrew Hale, Stuart Matthewman and Paul S. Denman, except where noted.

TRACKLIST:

1."By Your Side" – 4:34
2."Flow" – 4:34
3."King of Sorrow" – 4:53
4."Somebody Already Broke My Heart" – 5:01
5."All About Our Love" – 2:40
6."Slave Song" – 4:12
7."The Sweetest Gift" – 2:18
8."Every Word" – 4:04
9."Immigrant" (Adu, Janusz Podrazik) – 3:48
10."Lovers Rock" – 4:13
11."It's Only Love That Gets You Through" (Adu, Podrazik) – 3:53

LINE-UP:

de Adu – vocals
Andrew Hale – keyboards
Stuart Matthewman – guitar, woodwinds
Paul S. Denman – bass

Additional musicians:
Andy Nice – cello
Leroy Osbourne – vocals
Janusz Podrazik – keyboards
Karl Vanden Bossche – percussion