“Sunburn” by Muse

"Sunburn" kicks off Showbiz, the 1999 debut from Muse, and it was among the last songs Matt Bellamy wrote for it: he wrote it and "Falling Down" in late 1998, when the rest of the record went as far back as 1996. Bellamy has described it as a moth-to-the-bulb song about a spaceman flying toward the sun to escape an Earth with nothing to offer. John Leckie produced, recorded and mixed it, with Bellamy on guitar, piano and vocals, Christopher Wolstenholme on bass and double bass and Dominic Howard on drums.

It came out as the album's fourth single in February 2000 and reached No. 22 in Britain, the band's first trip inside the Top 40. Nick Gordon's video casts a young Brooke Kinsella, later of EastEnders, as a babysitter who leaves the boy in her care to go and investigate something upstairs.

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