Love for Sale (Boney M. album)


Love for Sale is the second studio album by Euro-Caribbean group Boney M. The album includes the hits "Ma Baker" and "Belfast". It also includes covers: "Love for Sale", "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?", and "Still I'm Sad". It has been released on vinyl, cassette and later on CD.

Artwork

The standard cover art features the male member Bobby Farrell "naked a futuristic golden thong" chaining female members, resembling African sexual slaves. American label Atlantic Records found the cover "raunchy", so they used the standard back cover of a vinyl sleeve featuring the band wearing clothes as the alternative front cover of American and Canadian edition. One of the female group members, Liz Mitchell, told The Sydney Morning Herald:
They wanted to photograph us all totally naked in chains with standing over us like it was bondage I wept—trust me. When they showed us the costumes, it was just heavy gold chains.

The front cover of the South Korean vinyl edition features the band in one live performance, and the back cover of the edition features the band in a studio photo session.

Track listing

;Side A
  1. "Ma Baker" – 4:36
  2. "Love for Sale" – 4:47
  3. "Belfast" – 3:31
  4. : "Daddy Cool" from the previous album Take the Heat off Me – 3:27
  5. "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" – 2:40
  6. "Gloria, Can You Waddle" – 3:57
;Side B
  1. "Plantation Boy" – 4:27
  2. "Motherless Child" – 4:58
  3. "Silent Lover" – 4:14
  4. "A Woman Can Change a Man" – 3:33
  5. "Still I'm Sad" – 4:34

    Personnel

;UK
7"
;U.S.
7"
;German
7"
;Album
YearChartPositionWeeks on chart
1977UK albums chart1310
1977Norway's album chart228
1977Dutch Album Chart224

;Single
YearSingleChartPositionWeeks on chart
1977"Ma Baker"UK single chart213
1977"Ma Baker"Norway's single chart123
1977"Ma Baker"Dutch Top 40115
1977"Belfast"UK single chart813
1977"Belfast"Dutch Top 40311

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