Love Won't Wait
Love must live in the here and now don't ask me how I know...
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information
Title: Love Won't Wait
Writers: Madonna and Shep Pettibone
Producers: Madonna and Shep Pettibone
Album: Demo for the album Bedtime Stories (1994)
Length: 5 ' 11''
coments
Love Won't Wait is one of the songs that Madonna and Shep Pettibone composed for the album she was about to release after Erotica. They also wrote songs as: Something's Coming Over Me, I Will Always Have You, I'd Rather Be Your Lover (songs that would be part of her Bedtime Stories album, the first and the second with diferent titles - Secret and Inside Of Me) and Bring It (not included in the album). As a curiosity, we can't see the name of Shep Pettibone in the album credits. Although Madonna had several demos recorded for her new project, she changed her mind and abandoned Shep to start working with Neelle Hopper, Babyface, Dallas Austin and Dave Hall. Maybe the bad acceptance of her Erotica album made her change the production.
But one of those demos was given to Gary Barlow, and he included it in his first solo album, Open Road, in 1997. Madonna didn't want to appear in the song's credits, but Gary did it, using that as a great free advertising for the song and album (having a song written by Madonna is a great advantage). Gary Barlow recorded Love Won't Wait, as an exact copy of the demo Madonna had recorded, only making it shorter and faster. He released the tune as his second single, and reached a great #1 in UK.
The demo recorded by Madonna was available in the internet, but from a poor recoding made in a record shop from Paris called Luck Records, with a low quality and some voices and noise. But the original demo with a great quality can be downloaded nowadays, with a clear sound. This tune is a typical Shep Pettibone production, and Madonna's voice is really powerful, reminding us some other songs as Deeper & Deeper or Rescue Me. This song would have suited perfectly in her Bedtime Stories album. When Madonna was asked for the reasons of not including it, she said she didn't feel those emotions when releasing the album, because she lived very diferent moments at that time.
collector items
Open Road
The first solo album from Gary Barlow was named Open Road, and although there are several versions of this Cd, all of them contain the album versión of Love Won't Wait.
Love Won't Wait Single
This is the cover of the single Love Won't Wait. The song reached #1 in the UK charts. There are many editions with mixes by Junior Vasquez, CUCA and Monster Makers, and there are some unreleased remixes made by Toni Moran.
This list of collectibles is not complete, it's just an orientative guide of the most important things.
lyric(from gary barlow's version)
Love Won't Wait
When I first saw your face
I knew that I could not hesitate
You said 'Baby, don't go too fast'
If we do then it may not last
Time went on and I waited for you
I didn't know what else I could do
I thought that we'd always be together
You said 'Hold on it just gets better'

And I believed you, I kept holding on
You think that I can never leaved you
You think I'm not that strong, you're wrong

Love won't wait
Forever and a day
Love must live in the here and now
Don't ask me how I know

So here I am with my heart on my sleeves
You said, 'Baby put your trust in me'
But I've come to the end of the line
And you've wasted up all of my precious time

Wanted to be something special to you
Everybody is somebody's fool
Won't be a fool, no you've got me all wrong
You don't know what you had till it's gone

Love takes time
But you've been taking too long
Time never waited for anyone
Don't wait too long or I'll be gone
Don't wait too long or I'll be gone
I'll be gone

That was an empty thing that I wouldn't do
You led me on, you even said 'I love you'
How can we go on when it's tearing up apart
Are you going to break my heart
Cause I believed you
gary barlow

Gary Barlow Gary Barlow was born in 1971, in Frodsham (UK). He is known for being one of the five guys from the Take That group, a boy band made for teenagers, in which he was the main composer and a great singer.
When the band was disolved in 1996, he started his solo carreer. He released his first album, Open Road, that had a great success in UK. His second album, Twelve Months Eleven Days hasn't had the same success.
Gary is a great artist with a huge potential, and we hope he can use it in his new projects.

official versions
1. Album Version (4:16)
2. Radio Edit (4:13)
3. Junior Vasquez Mix (4:24)
4. Demo Version By Madonna (5:11)
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