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Wet Wet Wet are a Scottish soft rock band that formed in 1982. They scored a number of hits in the UK charts and around the world. The band is composed of Marti Pellow (lead vocals), Tommy Cunningham (drums, vocals), Graeme Clark (bass, vocals) and Neil Mitchell (keyboards, vocals). A fifth, unofficial member, Graeme Duffin (lead guitar, vocals), has been with them since 1983. The band were named Best British Newcomer at the 1988 Brit Awards.
They are best known for their 1994 cover of The Troggs' 1960s hit "Love Is All Around", which was used on the soundtrack to the film Four Weddings and a Funeral. It was a huge international success and spent 15 weeks atop the British charts. The week before it could have equalled the record for the longest-standing UK number-one single, held by Bryan Adams' "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You", it dropped to number two.
The quartet formed at Clydebank High School in Clydebank, Scotland, in 1982, under the name "Vortex Motion", mostly playing covers of The Clash and Magazine. "It was either crime, the dole, football, or music — and we chose music," said Tommy Cunningham.
Love Is All is a Swedish five-piece indie pop band from Gothenburg, Sweden. It releases songs in English. Paste Magazine has stated that it makes "infectiously lo-fi punk rock laced with saxophone and melodic vocals".
Swedish band Love Is All are composed of Josephine Olausson (vocals, keyboard), Johan Lindwall (bass), Markus Görsch (drums), James Ausfahrt (saxophone), and Nicholaus Sparding (guitar/vocals). Olausson, Sparding, and Görsch had previously been members of Girlfrendo. The trio promptly regrouped after that band's demise and added Lindwall, who had recorded in a side project with Olausson and Sparding called Cat Skills. They finally added the missing piece with saxophone player Fredrik Eriksson. While earning many rave reviews from the blogging community for their blend of art punk and indie rock, the band released several singles, one of which made single of the week in NME. The singles were collected on the debut LP Nine Times That Same Song, released by New York-based What's Your Rupture? in late 2005. After much touring through 2006 and 2007, Eriksson left the band and Love Is All continued on as a quartet. A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night and the remix album Love Is All Mixed Up arrived in 2008, along with Eriksson's replacement Åke Strömer (saxophone, keyboards). They are currently signed to Polyvinyl Record Co..
Hey lonely girl, what are you looking for
You lost your thrill, and you can't hide it
Knew it from the start
Your world could fall apart
Didn't wanna know,
So love just came and went the other way
Like the times we had before
You don't want them anymore
And think of the times we had before
Now my worlds turned upside down
Having the love to give and no-one seems to care
I won't give you up
I'll never give you up
Even when it hurts inside, baby
I won't give you up
I'll never live it down
Come back and stay
Hey lonely girl, yeah, come be in my picture, alone
Be my dark and heavy skies
Be my love and be my life
And think of the times we had before
Now my worlds turned upside down
Having the love to give and no-one seems to care
I won't give you up
I'll never give you up
Even when it hurts inside, baby
I won't give you up
I'll never live it down
Come back and stay
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
And think of the times we had before
(now my world's turned upside down)
Now my worlds turned upside down
Having the love to give and no-one seems to care
Now, now, now
I won't give you up
I'll never give you up
Even when it hurts inside, baby
I won't give you up
I'll never live it down
Come back and stay
I won't give you up
I'll never give you up
Even when it hurts inside, baby
I won't give you up
I'll never live it down
Come back and stay