“Your Love Alone Is Not Enough” by Manic Street Preachers

"Your Love Alone Is Not Enough" was the second single from Send Away the Tigers, the Manic Street Preachers' 2007 album, and the Welsh band had always heard it as a duet. Nicky Wire's lyric runs as a string of questions and replies, so James Dean Bradfield trades lines with Nina Persson, the Cardigans' singer, while Wire adds extra vocals of his own. Bradfield and Sean Moore wrote the music, Dave Eringa produced, and it surges like a terrace anthem with a lump in its throat.

The title has a darker origin: Bradfield has said it was lifted from the closing words of a suicide note, written by a friend of someone near the group. The single went to number two in the UK and number one in Scotland, and Wire noted that some listeners assumed Persson had joined the band.

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