Songfacts®:

• By 1991, Cher had gotten away from story songs like "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves" and "Half-Breed" and focused on songs about interpersonal connection. Many of these songs came from the pen of Diane Warren, including "Love And Understanding," the first single from her album Love Hurts. The song expresses a sentiment that The Beatles and "Jackie DeShannon" had previously covered, but with a jaunty melody and a big chorus.
• Diane Warren produced this song with Guy Roche. They later teamed on the Celine Dion songs "Next Plane Out" and "No Living Without Loving You."
• Cher kept her focus on acting for much of the '80s before being coaxed back to music by Geffen Records, which released her album Cher in 1987. With the hits "I Found Someone" and "We All Sleep Alone," it got her back on the radio. Her next album, Heart Of Stone, was her first to go multi-Platinum, thanks to the single "If I Could Turn Back Time." The Love Hurts album didn't do as well, and Cher trailed off the musical radar until 1998 when she returned with the global hit "Believe."