“Without You” by Silverchair

"Without You" sat in Daniel Johns' back pocket for a while: he wrote it during the sessions for Silverchair's third album, Neon Ballroom, in 1999, then left it off. It finally found a home on Diorama, the band's fourth album, and went out as its second single in May 2002. Johns, Silverchair's singer and guitarist, wrote it alone and co-produced it with David Bottrill, who also mixed it, while Rob Woolf adds Hammond organ.

The video drifts through a space setting washed in colourful auroras, and if Johns spends a few shots sitting in a chair, there's a hard reason why: his reactive arthritis was getting worse while it was filmed, to the point where he could hardly walk, never mind hold a guitar.

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