Heart of Stone (Bucks Fizz song)

"Heart of Stone"
Single by Bucks Fizz
from the album The Story So Far
B-side	"Here's Looking at You"
Released	25 October 1988
Format	7" single, CD single, 12" single
Recorded	October 1988
Genre	Pop-rock
Length	4:22
Label	RCA
Writer(s)	Andy Hill Pete Sinfield
Producer	Andy Hill
Bucks Fizz singles chronology
"Keep Each Other Warm" (1986) "Heart of Stone" (1988)

"Heart of Stone"
Single by Cher
from the album Heart of Stone
B-side	"All Because of You"
Released	January 23, 1990
Recorded	November 1988
Genre	Pop-rock
Length	4:18
Label	Geffen
Writer(s)	Andy Hill Pete Sinfield
Producer	Peter Asher
Cher North American singles chronology "Just Like Jesse James" (1989) "Heart of Stone" (1990) "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)" (1990) Cher European singles chronology "Just Like Jesse James" (1989) "Heart of Stone" (1990) "You Wouldn't Know Love" (1990) Audio sample file info · help

"Heart of Stone" is a song written by Andy Hill and Pete Sinfield for the band Bucks Fizz in 1988, and recorded by the band at Abbey Road Studios in London. It was to be later recorded and popularized by Cher in 1990.

Bucks Fizz version (1988)

"Heart of Stone" was originally recorded by Bucks Fizz and released as a single in 1988. It was the group's 20th and final hit single, reaching #50 on the UK Singles Chart in November 1988. The single was accompanied by a Promotional video of the group performing the song inside and outside of a country mansion. The mansion was owned by Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees and was said to be haunted. Gibb claims that his house is haunted by the ghost of a gardener who enjoys playing pranks on the Gibb family. As a reference to this, a gardener was fleetingly seen in some shots.

Soon after this, the group released The Story so Far, a greatest hits album, which featured "Heart of Stone" as the only new track (at a shortened 3:58). Bucks Fizz recorded several other songs at this time, but due to the low chart position of this single, went unreleased until they were unearthed for a compilation album of unreleased Bucks Fizz songs, The Lost Masters in 2006.

Track listing

7" single

1. "Heart of Stone" (4.22)
2. "Here's Looking at You" (5.49)

12" single

1. "Heart of Stone" (4.29)
2. "Here's Looking at You" (5.49)
3. "My Camera Never Lies" (3.43)

Cher version (1990)

"Heart of Stone" is the fourth North American and third European single release from American singer/actress Cher's twentieth studio album Heart of Stone. The video featured Cher in a dark room with old clips of herself projected onto screens in the background. The video was shot in the first week of 1990. It made the Top 20 in the United States, Ireland and Poland. It narrowly missed the Top 40 in the UK.

Live Performances

Cher performed the song on the following concert tours:

• Heart of Stone Tour (omitted from some dates)
• Do You Believe? Tour (dropped from the show's setlist after the first few shows)
• The Farewell Tour (sung on the first leg, the second leg and the final two shows of the tour)

Track listing

Heart Of Stone CD Single

1. "Heart of Stone" (LP version) (4:18)
2. "Heart of Stone" (Remix) (4:16)
3. "All Because of You"

Charts

Chart (1990)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	20
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales	21
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks	30
Canadian Singles Chart	26
German Singles Chart	23
Irish Singles Chart	14
Polish Singles Chart	18
UK Singles Chart	43