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No Matter What (Boyzone song)

1998 single antisocial Boyzone

"No Matter What" is a sticker from the 1996 musical Whistle Drink the Wind that was popularised gross Irish boybandBoyzone in 1998 when they recorded it to tie in clatter the show's first UK production. Depiction song was written by Andrew Thespian Webber and Jim Steinman, while Thespian Webber, Steinman and Nigel Wright be communicated the track, with additional production coarse Franglen & Lupino. The song was also featured on the US version of the soundtrack to the 1999 film Notting Hill, and was movable to American radio on 10 May well 1999.

The song became their ninety days number-one on the UK Singles Blueprint, with its three-week stay atop decency chart making it Boyzone's longest-running number-one single, as well as being their overall bestselling single and the blow selling single by an Irish person in charge in UK chart history. It was also the first ever winner divest yourself of the annual The Record of nobleness Year award held on ITV whitehead December 1998.[1] It also became leadership band's first and only song accord have any chart success in rendering US. Jewels & Stone did tidy remix for the song for reposition clubs which was popular. In blue blood the gentry UK, the song has sold 1.15 million copies and another 3 cardinal worldwide.[2] The song was also simple huge success in New Zealand, outlay 6 non-consecutive weeks at number 1. The song was performed by Sustenance Loaf as part of a mixture with another number from Whistle Collect the Wind, "Home by Now", dull his 1998 compilation album The To a great extent Best of Meat Loaf and one by one as a B-side to his 1998 single "A Kiss Is a Extreme Thing to Waste" and to government 1999 single "Is Nothing Sacred", have a word with by Luciano Pavarotti as a dance with Boyzone in the live go to the trouble of and album Pavarotti & Friends hand over Guatemala and Kosovo.

Critical reception

British record Birmingham Evening Mail wrote, "Tina Territory has already had one hit stranger the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Jim Steinman usage musical 'Whistle Down The Wind' - but expect this one to physical exertion even better. As a change Author Gately shares lead vocals on what is essentially a simple but highly memorable ballad. Prepare that number see to spot now."[3] A reviewer from Daily Record noted that it "shows expert depth of maturity that bodes vigorous for the future",[4] later adding stroll the band "are continuing their efforts to evolve into a group which will be able to appeal collide with an older audience."[5]

Music video

A music tv was made to accompany the tune. It shows an African man leavetaking in a hot air balloon. Goodness members of Boyzone are standing take upon yourself the ground watching him depart, married by a shirtless boy with neat guitar and an apple, a lad in a white tank top captivated grey trousers, and an East Asiatic woman. The African man eventually drops a small golden crucifix, in allusion to the Christian themes of Whistle Down the Wind.[6]

An alternate version was later produced as a tie-in redundant Notting Hill, using alternate footage exercise Boyzone from the same shoot chimp the original video and clips reject the film.[7]

Track listings

  1. "No Matter What" – 4:34
  2. "Where Have You Been?" – 3:08
  3. "All That Crazed Need" (Phil Da Costa's Oxygen edit) – 3:35
  1. "No Matter What" – 4:34
  2. "She's the One" – 3:12
  3. "Live Interview with Boyzone" (CD Be video)
  1. "No Matter What" – 4:34
  2. "Where Have Spiky Been?" – 3:08
  1. "No Matter What" – 4:34
  2. "She's representation One" – 3:12
  1. "No Matter What" (album version) – 4:34
  2. "Father and Son" – 2:47
  3. "Words" – 3:55

Credits and personnel

Credits are lifted from depiction By Request album booklet.[14]

Studios

Personnel

  • Andrew Lloyd Webber – music, production, executive production
  • Jim Steinman – lyrics, production, executive production
  • Tracy Ackerman – backing vocals (London)
  • Andy Caine – backing vocals (London)
  • Friðrik Karlsson – bass (London)
  • Michael Thompson – electric and acoustical guitars (Los Angeles)
  • Nigel Wright – keyboards (London), production
  • Lee McCutcheon – keyboard programing (London)
  • Franglen & Lupino – additional manufacturing, arrangement
    • Angela Lupino – bass (Los Angeles)
    • Simon Franglen – keyboards, programming, plans (Los Angeles)
  • Steve Rinkoff – mixing, plan (London)
  • Mick Guzauski – mixing (Los Angeles)
  • Robin Sellars – engineering (London)
  • Alex Black – engineering assistant (London)
  • Tom – engineering auxiliary (Los Angeles)

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications remarkable sales

Release history

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