"When I Said Goodbye"/"Summer of Love" is a double A-side single, the tenth single released by Steps. "When I Said Goodbye" is a ballad taken from the album Steptacular

Steptacular

Steptacular is the second studio album by British pop group Steps, released in the United Kingdom on 25 October 1999. It entered the UK Albums Chart at number one, where it remained on the position for three weeks, selling 260,000 copies in the same time frame...

, while "Summer of Love" is a previously unavailable track. The latter is a Latino-flavoured uptempo pop song, which later appeared on their third album Buzz. It features various lyrics in Spanish which include: Disfruta la vida (Enjoy life) and Pienso que te quiero (I think that I love you).

Music videos

The video for "When I Said Goodbye" was a black-and-white video shot in Rome

Rome

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, Italy

Italy

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. It featured shots of the members singing solemnly. In contrast, the video for the Latino-flavoured "Summer Of Love" featured brightly-coloured clothes and energetic dancing. It also portrayed Steps and their dancers as "good steps" (very colorful and dressed innocently) and "bad steps" (dressed in leather, with black makeup, very raunchy looking) in the end good steps chase bad steps away with their amazing dancing.

CD

1. "When I Said Goodbye" – 3:32
2. "Summer of Love" – 3:52
3. "Summer of Love" (W.I.P. Remix) – 6:38

Remixes

1. "Summer of Love" (D-Bop's Tequila Slammer Dub)
2. "Summer of Love" (D-Bop's Tequila Sunrise Vocal)
3. "Summer of Love" (Tour Mix) [Also called the Salsa Mix and/or the Minimix]
4. "Summer of Love" (TV edit)
5. "When I Said Goodbye" (Kiss Mix) [unconfirmed]

Chart performance

"When I Said Goodbye"/"Summer of Love" peaked at #5 and spent eleven weeks in the Official UK Top 75 Singles chart, two of which were spent in the top ten.

Chart positions

Chart (2000)	Peak position
Irish Singles Chart Irish Singles Chart The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured...	18
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	5