Your Love Alone Is Not Enough
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Cover image taken from Monika Monster Future First Woman on Mars by Valerie Philips
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| Single by Manic Street Preachers featuring Nina Persson | |||||||||||
| from the album Send Away the Tigers | |||||||||||
| Released | 23 April 2007 | ||||||||||
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CD single 7" vinyl digital download |
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| Genre | Alternative rock, hard rock | ||||||||||
| Length | 3:55 | ||||||||||
| Label | Columbia | ||||||||||
| Writer(s) | James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Sean Moore | ||||||||||
| Producer(s) | Dave Eringa | ||||||||||
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"Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" is a single by Welsh rock group the Manic Street Preachers, it was the lead single that was taken from the album Send Away the Tigers. It peaked on number 2 in the UK Singles Chart.
The song is a duet featuring the vocals of lead singer James Dean Bradfield and Nina Persson of The Cardigans, as well as additional vocals from bass guitarist Nicky Wire. It was released on 23 April 2007. According to the band they always had a duet in mind, seeing that the lyrics have a question/reply style to it. According to singer Bradfield the title was the last line of a suicide note left by the friend of someone close to the group.
According to Nicky Wire the song is in part concerned with the disappearance of Richey Edwards: "... while I was writing those words addressed to him (Richey Edwards) on Your Love Alone…something touched me at my desk when I wrote “I could have shown you how to cry”"
Like with all Send Away the Tigers-related material, the cover image is taken from the photography book Monika Monster Future First Woman on Mars by Valerie Phillips.
The song's lyrics reference past classic British rock songs:
The physical release was on April 23, but the song had already charted at No. 26 in the UK charts on early download sales. On Tuesday, Music Week reported that the single was due to hit #1 on Sunday 6 May, after its physical release. However, they charted at number 2, behind the Beyoncé–Shakira collaboration "Beautiful Liar".
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