What is the song Summer Of Love about?
The song Summer of Love first appeared as a b-side track on the DeEPer EP single in 1997 and also appears on the d:Tour live album. The song was written by Martin and Stu G after Stew Smith’s wife suffered a miscarriage during the 12th week of her pregnancy. The words of the chorus, in particular, sum up how Stew was feeling at the time: Summer of Love, so full of pain. Summer of Love, was God to blame. An article in the UK Cross Rhythms magazine in 1998 sees Stew Smith talking about the song and its personal meaning to him. “There’s so much depth in it”, he says. “We used to mess about in the van at the beginning of 1997 and say, ‘This is going to be the summer of love’ and as we got into the summer, the miscarriage happened. At the end of the day, it was the summer of love because God was involved in it all. But for me every time we play it, I think about what happened… It really is quite an emotional thing and it’s a very pasionate song as it builds to the end, it has that sort of
