“Silver” by Echo and the Bunnymen

"Silver" was the second single from Ocean Rain, Echo and the Bunnymen's fourth album, released on 13 April 1984, and it's the band at their most swooning and wide-eyed, post-punk gloom traded for something that glitters. They cut it at the Studio Des Dames in Paris and Amazon Studio in Liverpool, with Gil Norton producing, engineering alongside Henri Loustau and mixing with the band. The writing credit goes to all four: Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant, Les Pattinson and Pete de Freitas.

It spent five weeks on the UK singles chart, peaking at number 30, and made number 14 in Ireland. The seven-inch carried "Angels and Devils" on the flip, while the 12-inch stretched the song by a minute and 50 seconds into "Silver (Tidal Wave)".

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.