Don't Give Up (Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush song)

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"Don't Give Up"
"Don't Give Up" cover
Single by Peter Gabriel with Kate Bush
from the album So
Released October 1986
Format 7" Single, 12" Single
Recorded 1985
Genre Rock
Length 5:55
Label Geffen Records
Producer Daniel Lanois and Peter Gabriel
"Don't Give Up"
"Don't Give Up" cover
Single by Shannon Noll and Natalie Bassingthwaighte
from the album Home: Songs of Hope & Journey
Released December 9, 2006
Format Compact Disc
Digital download
Recorded 2006
Genre Pop/Rock
Length 4:39
Label Sony BMG

"Don't Give Up" is a duet recorded by Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush for Gabriel's album So. The single version spent eleven weeks in the UK Top 75 chart in 1986. It describes the despair of a man who feels that the economic system has no place for him, and the support and wise counsel sung in the refrain by Bush. There were two videos created for this song by Godley & Creme. The first consisted of a single take of the singers in an embrace, as the sun enters total eclipse and re-emerges. The second featured Gabriel and Bush's faces superimposed over film of a town and its people in disrepair.

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The song was included in Peter Gabriel's Secret World Live tour featuring singer Paula Cole. The DVD release of a performance in Italy in 1993 (released in 1994) included the duet.

Máire Brennan included a version of this song as a bonus track on her 1999 album Whisper to the Wild Water. In this version Michael McDonald 'tells' Máire not to give up.

A cover version was recorded by the 2003 Australian Idol runner-up Shannon Noll and Rogue Traders frontwoman Natalie Bassingthwaighte. It was recorded for the compilation Home: Songs of Hope & Journey. It was released as a charity single for the depression organisation beyondblue. It was the most added song to Australian radio in its first week.[1] It made its debut at number seven on the ARIA Charts and on its second week moved up to number two and accrediting Platinum by ARIA. The song was also performed live on the fifth season of Dancing With The Stars. The music video features Noll and Bassingthwaighte in the studio recording the single.

In December 2005, R&B vocalist Alicia Keys and U2 frontman Bono recorded a version entitled "Don't Give Up (Africa)" for World AIDS Day. The single was released exclusively to iTunes, and all proceeds went to the charity Keep A Child Alive.

Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush version

All songs written by Gabriel.

  1. "Don't Give Up"
  2. "Curtains"
  3. "Batmanfish" (Darn Elusive remix)
Shannon Noll and Natalie Bassingthwaighte version
  1. "Don't Give Up"
  2. "Don't Give Up" (instrumental)

  • It was also used in the end of the NBC made-for-TV movie Perfect Body.

It was also used in an episode of Miami Vice in which Crockett (Don Jonson) recovers from a case of amnesia.

Chart (1986) 1 Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart 5
New Zealand RIANZ Singles Chart 16
UK Singles Chart 9
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 72
Chart (2006) 2 Peak
position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart[2] 2
  • 1 Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush.
  • 2 Shannon Noll and Natalie Bassingthwaighte.

  1. ^ SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT -- Australia -- CD Releases
  2. ^ Australian chart position. australian-charts. Retrieved on December 12, 2006.


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Studio Albums
Peter Gabriel I (Car) | Peter Gabriel II (Scratch) | Peter Gabriel III (Melt) | Peter Gabriel IV (Security) | So | Us | Up | Big Blue Ball
With Genesis
From Genesis to Revelation | Trespass | Nursery Cryme | Foxtrot | Selling England by the Pound | The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Live Albums
Plays Live | Secret World Live
Encore Series: 2003 | 2004 | 2007
Soundtracks
Birdy | Passion | OVO | Long Walk Home
Compilations
Shaking the Tree | Revisited | Hit
DVDs
Secret World Live | Growing Up Live | Growing Up: A Family Portrait | Play: The Videos | Still Growing Up: Live & Unwrapped
German Albums
Ein Deutsches Album | Deutsches Album


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Shannon Noll
Albums That's What I'm Talking About • Lift • Turn It Up
Singles "What About Me" • "Drive" • "Learn to Fly" • "C'mon Aussie C'mon" • "Shine" • "Lift" • "Now I Run" • "Lonely" • "Don't Give Up" • "Loud" • "In Pieces"
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