^ ' 'Gotta Get Thru This': Dom Passantino's Survey of the New Millenium's UK #1 Singles - Article - Stylus Magazine'.Archived from the original on 28 January 2006. ^ 'Pete Tong - Essential Selection - 14.01.00'.Archived from the original on 29 February 2000. Dotmusic (retrieved from the Internet Archive). 'Chicane - 'Don't Give Up' (Xtravaganza)'. Bryan Adams, king of rave? Archived 14 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine. ^ a b 'Pete Tong - Essential Selection - 31.12.99'.'CHICANE ft BRYAN ADAMS вЂ“ 'Don't Give Up' '. ^ 'Tracks: Nick Bracegirdle: Recording Chicane's 'Don't Give Up' '.Archived from the original on 16 February 2007. Archived from the original on 29 April 2006. 'Samplings - Chicane - Carries Ibiza Sound Across the Pond'. ^ a b Shepherd, Stephanie (September 2000).'Chicane's Classic Trance anthem 'Don't Give Up' with Bryan Adams gets a massive 2018 rework'. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. But this inadvertent futurism isn't the result of any particular vision, just an offspring of the listless humping of two clichГ©s.' Charts Except this actually sold some copies.' Tom Ewing of Freaky Trigger, although saying the song predicted the EDM boom of the 2010s, was also mixed, saying: 'Inadvertently, the track hits on an idea вЂ“ throaty, effortful bloke singing over formula builds and drops вЂ“ that we will see an awful lot of in the early 2010s.

Bizarrely enough, time has revealed it to actually be the colour negative of ' Emerge' by Fischerspooner. In 2004, following Bracegirdle's departure from Xtravaganza, the label issued 'Don't Give Up 2004', a single including only new remixes by label founder Alex Gold and Xtravaganza artists Agnelli & Nelson.ДЄ music video was released for the song, featuring a young girl working in a dystopian scenario, who occasionally snatches views of herself (using a Nokia Communicator) living in a more pleasant existence, interspersed with scenes of Adams singing the song.Дom Passantino of Stylus Magazine was mixed, saying 'this is our Bryan's only entry to number one, a far too obvious attempt at appealing to both Dave Pearce and Ken Bruce at the same time. The song sold 270,000 copies in the UK as stated by the Official UK Charts Company. The song featured on the acclaimed 2000 mix album CreamLive. On the week of 12 March 2000, 'Don't Give Up' overtook ' American Pie', Madonna's number one single of the previous week, on the UK Singles Chart, outselling it by 1224 copies and becoming Bryan Adams' second number one in the UK after ' (Everything I Do) I Do It for You' in 1991 and Chicane's first. It was also included on Tong's Essential Selection Spring 2000 compilation album. On a later January show, Judge Jules, standing in for Tong, played it as the Essential New Tune again. It was chosen as Tong's 'Essential New Tune' selection, which, on this episode, was specially designated 'Essential New Tune for the millennium'. Problems playing this file? See media help.ДЄdams's vocal credit was initially not publicized, particularly when the single, in a white label release, was first played by noted BBC Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong on his 31 December 1999 Essential Selection show. I don't think he quite manages it вЂ“ his singing is husky anyhow.' Release ДЄ 14 second sample of 'Don't Give Up' demonstrating Bryan Adams' processed vocals. One critic felt the processed vocals were unsuccessful: 'Adams digitally treated his vocal on this track to an extreme degree to make it sound less rock. Even though his voice was altered electronically, it is still recognisable. This was done through Prosoniq's OrangeVocoder plugin on Steinberg's Cubase VST digital audio workstation. ДЄdams's rock-styled vocals were buried in audio processing. Adams agreed to the role, and also wrote the melody and lyrics to the song 'Don't Give Up'. Later, having written the music for a track that needed to be turned into a song, Bracegirdle played the idea to Adams during his search for a voice. The resulting remix was selected by Adams as the radio edit of the single, which went on to reach number six on the UK chart. The collaboration between the two musicians began in 1999, when Adams contacted Bracegirdle at his studio to arrange for a remix of Adams's forthcoming single ' Cloud Number 9' from his 1998 album On a Day Like Today.

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