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"Heaven Is A Place On Earth" - Belinda Carlisle
from the album Heaven On Earth (1987)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #1 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 15

Today's song of the day is by Belinda Carlisle, who left the all-female rock band the Go-Go's to embark on a solo career in the mid-80s and scored a top-3 pop hit with "Mad About You". That was from her debut solo set Belinda with her Go-Go's label I.R.S., and shared the indie-retro vibe of her old band. In 1987 she moved over to MCA, and with a more mature and glamorous image (and darker hair) released her sophomore effort Heaven On Earth. The lead single, the semi-title track "Heaven Is A Place On Earth", was written by the team of Rick Nowels (who produced the song) and Ellen Shipley, and the music video came A-listed, directed by none other than Diane Keaton, with husband Morgan Mason again making a cameo...

"Heaven Is A Place On Earth" became Belinda's biggest hit, landing her sole #1 pop hit in America in December of 1987. The single also made it to #7 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary (or "easy listening") radio chart (surprised it didn't go higher). Internationally, the record climbed to #1 in the UK for two weeks, as well as in Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and New Zealand, and top-3 in Australia, Canada, and Germany.

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Here's Belinda live in 1987 for the Prince's Trust...