air supply "making love..nothing at all"

my commercial 45 of air supply "making love out of nothing at all" issued as arista 9056 states a run time on the label as 4:29 but actually runs 4:54

The 45 version of this song is on the UK import disc that Todd eluded to in another Air Supply thread. Making Love...The Very Best Of Air Supply.

I believe in this case the time was deliberately under reported, to make the single more palatable to radio. Jim Steinman (who wrote it) has a penchant for writing these long, epic dramas.

I knew the existence of this LP version for the first time when I bought the Pat's book "8th edition". Because the japanese issue vinyl LP "Greatest Hits" includes the 45 version at that time. Good things of my life, this is the "Top 40 Music on Compact Disc"     

Someone commented earlier that Air Supply is the artist/group with the most WRONG printed run times. I don't think this was so much an Air Supply trend as it was an Arista trend. I'd bet Manilow, Manchester, etc. have many wrong times as well. But an interesting theory is presented in this post -- that the intro times are not included in the Arista listed times. It would be interesting to see if that theory holds. Maybe it's a trend that started in the '80s or late '70s, because in 1975 "Could It Be Magic" clearly indicated the intro time AND the remainder of the song's time.