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Just for You (M People song)

"Just for You"
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Single by M People
from the album Fresco
B-side Remixes
Released 22 September 1997
Format 12" maxi
CD single, cassette
Genre Pop/Soul
Length 4:01
Label Deconstruction
Writer(s) Mike Pickering, Paul Heard Heather Small
Producer(s) M People
M People singles chronology
"Itchycoo Park"
(1995)
" Just for You"
(1997)
"Fantasy Island"
(1997)

"Just for You" is the fifteenth overall single from British band M People. It is the lead single from their fourth album, Fresco (1997). Written by Mike Pickering, Paul Heard and Heather Small. Produced by M People. It was released on 22 September 1997. The song peaked at number eight on the UK Singles Chart.

The intro to the song is led by an orchestral string movement, soon combined with a slow strummy guitar and Heather's vocals.

"Just for You" is a love song with Heather singing about the exultations of love and the lengths that she would go to always be there; to support, to sacrifice and to guide singing the insistent refrain at the end of every line of the verses: "Just for You".

The video was premiered on Friday 12 September 1997 on music channel The Box, a music show called Good Stuff on 23 September and Videotech on ITV on 25 September.

The band themselves first performed the song live on Chris Evans's Channel 4 show TFI Friday on Friday 19 September and GMTV on the day of release. They also made their fourteenth promotional appearance on Top of the Pops on Friday 26 September and the video was played in full on The Chart Show the next day.

The video was shot overnight in Los Angeles over the weekend of 24/25 August 1997. The four main members of the band featured prominently in a coolly-lit disused warehouse. In the fore, is Heather Small, sat on a blue silk draped sofa on a round stage surrounded by cables on the floor and speakers either side, singing the camera up above wearing a black nightdress. Also on the subtly-lit raised stage, is Shovell on drums, Paul Heard on guitar and Mike Pickering on bass guitar. The band are surrounded by a large orchestra playing in front of them strings and flutes adding to the relaxed tempo of the song, with silhouettes of the backing singers.

While the band and orchestra play along to the music various creatures are also present: frogs sit on various instruments, crickets climb the face of the flutist, butterflies perch on the violins and worms move through the mixing desk controls adding to the organic nature of the song.


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