"My Forbidden Lover" is the second single from the band Chic

Chic (band)

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's 1979 album Risqué. The song was written and produced by Chic's two frontmen, Bernard Edwards

Bernard Edwards

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 and Nile Rodgers

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.

The song's backing track has been sampled in the 2000 Alcazar

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 song "Sexual Guarantee

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", the 2006 Luther Vandross

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 song "Shine" (along with its cover by Booty Luv

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), the Darryl Pandy song "Sunshine & Happiness", and the 2010 The Black Eyed Peas

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 song "Fashion Beats

The Beginning (The Black Eyed Peas album)

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".

Track listings

Atlantic 7" 3620 September 18, 1979

• A. "My Forbidden Lover" (7" Edit) - 3:30
• B. "What About Me?" - 4:10

Atlantic promo 12" DSKO 207, 1979

• A. "My Forbidden Lover" (Extended 12" Mix) - 6:29
• B. "What About Me?" - 4:10

Chart

The song reached #15 on the UK pop charts in April 1978, spending 8 weeks on the chart. It failed to enter the US Billboard top 40 pop chart.