A Friend for Life
| "A Friend for Life" | ||||
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| Single by Steve Harley | ||||
| from the album The Quality of Mercy | ||||
| B-side | "Safe" (Live) "Loretta's Tale" (Live) | |||
| Released | 30 April 2001 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 4:45 | |||
| Label | Intrinsic Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | ||||
| Producer(s) | Jim Cregan | |||
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"A Friend for Life" is a song by British singer-songwriter Steve Harley, released by Intrinsic Records on 30 April 2001 as a non-album single. The song was written by Harley and former Cockney Rebel guitarist Jim Cregan, and was produced by Cregan. Harley's first release of new material since his 1996 album Poetic Justice, "A Friend for Life" was later included on Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel's sixth studio album The Quality of Mercy (2005).
Harley originally offered "A Friend for Life" to British singer Rod Stewart in 2000. The singer declined to record the song, but later included a version on his twenty-ninth studio album Another Country (2015).