Heaven Is a Place on Earth by Belinda Carlisle
Saturday, December 5, 1987
– December 11, 1987
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Artist: Belinda Carlisle Weeks at #1: 1 week Chart dates: December 5, 1987
About
“Heaven Is a Place on Earth” was the lead single from Belinda Carlisle’s second album, Heaven on Earth. The single was released in September 1987, shortly before the album, and it reached the top of the charts in at least nine countries. The song features Thomas Dolby on keyboards, and among the backing singers were Michelle Phillips (of the Mamas and the Papas) and the song’s writers, Rick Nowels and Ellen Shipley. When Carlisle reprised the song for her 2017 album Wilder Shores, she slowed the tempo and sang only with piano accompaniment.
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