Lenny Kravitz “Let Love Rule” 1990. 10″ single UK release on limited edition orange vinyl. “Let Love Rule” is the title track from Kravitz’s 1989 debut LP and its lead single. It was in September 35 years ago (the album was released on September 6, 1989) that I first became highly aware of Lenny Kravitz, this song and the album. As a freshman at UW-Madison it became one of my personal soundtracks that Fall, which I listened to on repeat on my cassette-playing knockoff Walkman heading to and from class (sometimes while following – not intentionally! – a hot Kravitz-doppelgänger, likely a sophomore from one of the nearby dorms). “Let Love Rule” was released in July of ’89 and went to #89 in the US and to #39 in the UK. It charted on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks at #23 and the US Modern Rock chart at #5. Actress Lisa Bonet (his then-wife) is in the video. The B-side of the 10″ has two live tracks recorded at the Ritz in NYC. The first is a Jimi Hendrix cover of “If Six Were Nine” with – this still being the 80’s and all – an epically killer sax solo performed by funk and jazz saxophonist Karl Denson. The second is “My Precious Love” which is also on the album Let Love Rule; it’s a soulful rock ballad with a distinctly 60’s flavor. It’s been too long since I’ve listened to the whole record so will be doing that soon (but not on a knockoff shitty Walkman/cassette player).