Love Is All Around (Wet Wet Wet song)

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"Love Is All Around"

Single by Wet Wet Wet
from the album Picture This
Released	May 9, 1994 (UK)
Format	CD, cassette, 7"
Recorded	1994
Genre	Pop
Length	3:59
Label	London Records
Chart positions
#1 (UK Singles Chart) - (US)
Wet Wet Wet singles chronology
"Cold Cold Heart" (1993)	"Love Is All Around" (1994)	"Julia Says" (1995)

Wet Wet Wet's version of Reg Presley's Troggs composition "Love Is All Around" was released on May 9, 1994. It topped the UK singles chart in its week of release and, fuelled by its appearance in the movie Four Weddings and a Funeral, remained there for fifteen consecutive weeks. All told, the song spent 37 weeks on the survey.^[1] "We did everybody's head in in the summer of 1994," joked Wets frontman Marti Pellow exactly a decade later. "I still think it's a brilliant record. Its strength is its sheer simplicity. Any band would give their eye teeth to have a hit record like that. I'm very proud of it."^[2]

[edit] Track listings

CD 1:

"Love Is All Around"
"I Can Give You Everything" (7" Arthur Baker soul remix)
"Ain't No Stoppin'/Le Freak"

CD 2:

"Love Is All Around/Is This Love?" (live)
"Love Is All Around" (TV mix)
"I Can Give You Everything" (12" House mix)

MC:

"Love Is All Around"
"I Can Give You Everything" (7" Arthur Baker soul remix)

7":

"Love Is All Around"
"I Can Give You Everything" (7" Arthur Baker remix)

[edit] R.E.M. connection

The employment of film projection onto blank cards in the song's video is reminiscent of R.E.M.'s "Radio Song" video, shot three years earlier. Regarding the Wets' recording of the song, R.E.M.'s Peter Buck said, "People say they got the idea to do it from seeing us play - and I hope so, because it made Reg a million pounds or something. It's a great song. I thought it was a fine version."^[3]

"I heard their live version - they did it on TV once - and [Marti Pellow] sang it with the same little melody that I threw in there, which was kind of nice," added Mike Mills. "That thing like uh-uh-uh-urrr at the end. That doesn't exist on the original version."^[3]

"Oh, okay. I thought you meant bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah-bah," concluded Michael Stipe.^[3]

[edit] References

^ http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gary.hart/lyricsw/wet.html
^ Sloan, Billy. "Wets Get Together Again", Daily Record, June 27, 2004.
^ ^a ^b ^c Harris, John. "unknown", Q magazine, June, 2001.

Preceded by: "Come on You Reds" by the Manchester United Football Squad	UK number one single May 1994	Succeeded by: "Saturday Night" by Whigfield

Wet Wet Wet

Marti Pellow - Tommy Cunningham - Graeme Clark - Neil Mitchell - Angus Cameron

Other musicians: Graeme Duffin

Discography

Studio albums: Popped In Souled Out - The Memphis Sessions - Holding Back the River - High on the Happy Side - Cloak & Dagger - Picture This - 10