In an interview with Los Angeles Times, Nelson talked about the duet and how it was made. O'Connor sings Kate Bush's parts in the song. The single is included on Nelson's Across the Borderline studio album, produced by Don Was, Paul Simon, and Roy Halee. The song was covered as a duet between American musician Willie Nelson and Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor in 1993. " Success Has Made a Failure of Our Home" Single by Willie Nelson and Sinéad O'Connor Other versions Willie Nelson and Sinéad O'Connor version "Don't Give Up" During i/o The Tour in 2023, Gabriel performed the song live with cellist/pianist/singer Ayanna Witter-Johnson. During Back to Front Tour from 2012 to 2014, Gabriel performed the Song live with singer Jennie Abrahamson. An all-orchestral recording featuring Ane Brun was released on Gabriel's ninth studio album New Blood (2011). The DVD release of a performance in Italy in 1993 (released in 1994) included the duet. The song was included in Gabriel's Secret World Live tour featuring singer Paula Cole. I always put 'Don't give up' because you shouldn't give up." Live performances Jennie Abrahamson performing Don't Give Up at Peter Gabriel's Back to Front Tour 2014 at Festhalle in Frankfurt, Germany I've been writing it when I sign the book. Of the song, Perry said in an interview, "It was so cool and I love that. Similarly, actor Matthew Perry (who struggled with substance and alcohol addiction) was enamored with the song it was played at his funeral in November 2023 and was referenced in signed copies of his autobiography Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing, which was released a year before his death. Don't give up." He states, "she played a big part in my rebirth. When times get rough you can fall back on us. In a 2014 interview, Elton John attributed his sobriety to the song, in particular the lyric from Bush, "Rest your head. Ī second video, directed by Grammy Award–winning Jim Blashfield and produced by Melissa Marsland in 1988, features the singers' faces superimposed over film of a town and its people in disrepair. (Of the shoot, Gabriel remarked, "There are worse ways of earning a living." ) The video was featured in the final broadcast of the channel Europa TV in November 1986. The first, by Godley & Creme, is a single take of Gabriel and Bush, as they sing, in an embrace, while the sun behind them enters a total eclipse and re-emerges. Two music videos were created for the song. However, Parton turned it down, so his friend Kate Bush took her place. Gabriel originally wrote the song from a reference point of American roots music and he approached country singer Dolly Parton to sing it with him. The verses, sung by Gabriel, describe the man's feelings of isolation, loneliness and despair the choruses, sung by Bush, offer words of hope and encouragement. He composed lyrics about a man whose unemployment causes stress in his domestic relationship. He felt that a song based on this was appropriate to difficult economic conditions in the United Kingdom under the premiership of Margaret Thatcher. Gabriel saw Lange's images in a book entitled In This Proud Land (1973). The song was inspired by the Depression-era photographs of Dorothea Lange, showing poverty-stricken Americans in Dust Bowl conditions. In 1987, the song won an Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. It spent eleven weeks in the UK Top 75 chart in 1986, peaking at number nine. The single version was released as the second single from the album in the UK in 1986 and as the fifth single in the US in 1987. " Don't Give Up" is a song written by English rock musician Peter Gabriel and recorded as a duet with English singer Kate Bush for Gabriel's fifth solo studio album So (1986).
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