Love & Kisses is a 1970s disco group assembled by European producer Alec Costandinos, with a variety of male and female singers.
After collaborating on Cerrone's debut album Love In C Minor (1976), Costandinos assembled Love & Kisses in early 1977, and shortly after the group released their first album, Love and Kisses, which contained just two songs - and so was also classed as a double A-side single. These were "Accidental Lover" and "I Found Love (Now That I Found You)", which combined orchestral sounds, classical influences and a disco arrangement. The single charted at #1 for three weeks on Billboards disco/dance chart.
The album cover has been criticized for depicting a woman with several men's hands ripping holes in her T-shirt, with one commentator writing, "Although rape is not overtly shown on this record cover, the picture conveys the impression of a gang rape about to happen." In a Billboard article about album covers depicting sex and violence against women, Casablanca Records' director of creative services admitted that he had "questions about the company's 'Love & Kisses' LP."
The following year saw the release of the group's second album entitled How Much, How Much I Love You (the title track covered side one, "Beauty and the Beast" completed side two, along with a love song, "Maybe"), utilizing the same basic formula. Both songs became top five disco hits. and #1 for six weeks on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart