The Chesterfield Kings Send “Your Strange Love” & Beatles Cover “It’s Only Love” To 7 Inch Green Vinyl

Garage rock legends The Chesterfield Kings are returning this week with new single “Your Strange Love”, out June 6th, 2025 via Wicked Cool Records on limited edition green vinyl. Co-written by founding King Andy Babiuk and Steven Van Zandt, the track marks another collaboration between the longtime friends. “Your Strange Love” has already been selected as the Coolest Song in the World on Little Steven’s Underground Garage for the week of June 9.

The single’s flip side is a cover of The Beatles’ “It’s Only Love, the band’s first-ever Beatles cover in their many decades-long career.

Babiuk says:

I always like writing songs with Steven. I had this song idea for ‘Your Strange Love’ and Stevie took the lyrics to a whole different level with a Venus in Furs vibe and had us add a tambura to give the song a more mystic feel. Stevie knows how to get the job done!

He adds about the Beatles cover:

Through the years we never touched a Beatles song because we always felt it was almost like sacrilegious. But when the label asked us to record some covers, I thought, ‘fk it, let’s do a Beatles song.’ After all, they are my favorite band! This is our tribute.

The new single is pulled from the band’s LP We’re Still All The Same, produced by Ed Stasium (Ramones, Talking Heads, The Smithereens). The album was fuelled by over 50 vintage guitars and classic amps and keyboards from Babiuk’s collection.

With the release of “Your Strange Love,” the band kicks off their first UK/European tour in decades beginning June 12, 2025. Fans can also catch an in-depth 7-page feature interview in the July issue of Vintage Guitar Magazine, where the band breaks down the making of the new LP and the vintage gear behind the sound.

Formed in the late ’70s and hailing from Rochester, NY, The Chesterfield Kings have long been heralded as the origin of the 1980s Garage Rock revival. They’ve released 11 albums and 15 singles, toured worldwide, and appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and The Sopranos.