Love Don't Live Here Anymore

Madonna covered "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" for her second studio album, Like a Virgin, in 1984. The idea to cover the song was actually Michael Ostin's, the head of the A&R department of Warner Bros. Records. In author Warren Zanes book Revolutions in sound: Warner Bros. Records, the first fifty years, he recalled: "I had the good fortune of finding material that Madonna really responded to, 'Love Don't Live Here Anymore' for instance, which was the old Rose Royce record. I was driving into work one day and heard it on the radio, I called producer Nile Rodgers and Madonna, they were in the studio. I said, 'I have an idea,. You know the old Rose Royce record, 'Love Don't Live Here Anymore'? Why don't you try and record a version of it for Like a Virgin?" Initially both Rodgers and Madonna were apprehensive of tackling an already well-known ballad, but later they decided that if Madonna wanted to bring diversity to the album, there could be no better song than "Love Don't Live Here Anymore". The song was a favourite of Madonna, so when in 1995, she released a compilation of her greatest ballad hits entitled Something to Remember, she included a remixed and reworked version of "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" produced by David Reitzas. The song was released as the second single from the album in North America and the third single in Europe and Australia