"A Lover's Holiday" b/w "The End"
Released: March 1980
"Searching" b/w UK: "Angel in My Pocket" / US: "It's A Girl's Affair"
Released: July 1980
"The Glow of Love" b/w "It's A Girl's Affair"
Released: October 1980

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
Robert Christgau	B+

The Glow of Love is the debut studio album by the Italian/U.S. ensemble Change. It was released in 1980 and reached number twenty-nine on the US Billboard Album Chart and ten on the US Billboard Black Albums chart.The Glow of Love includes the singles "A Lover's Holiday", "Searching" and "The Glow of Love", all three singles simultaneously topped the US dance chart for nine weeks from May to June 1980.

The band recorded the songs for album at Fontoprint Studios, Bologna, Italy. The songs were then taken to Power Station Studios, New York City for the recording of the vocals. "Searching" and the title track were recorded and mixed at Media Sound Studios, New York. The sessions were then mastered at Sterling Sound Studios. Receiving positive reviews the album was originally released as an LP in April 1980. The artwork was designed and illustrated by Greg Porto.

The Glow of Love received positive reviews from the majority of critics. Alex Henderson writing retrospectively for AllMusic describes it as a disco/R&B masterpiece and Change's most essential album. Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards' Chic sound is noted as a heavy influence but Henderson argues that "knowledgeable disco and R&B enthusiasts knew better; Change wasn't a carbon copy of Chic any more than jazz great Chet Baker was a clone of Miles Davis." "A Lover's Holiday" is marked as a playful opener, while "It's a Girl's Affair" and "Angel in my Pocket" are highlighted as "sassy and passionate," respectively.

Robert Christgau writing at the time, summarises the album as "New and true and gay" and "having the complete bag of disco tricks." The influence of Chic is again noted in "A Lover's Holiday" which he describes as a "Rodgers-&-Edwards rip." He also compares "The End" to the electronic music of Giorgio Moroder.

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