“The Sun Rising” by The Beloved

"The Sun Rising" was the Beloved's second single from Happiness, sent out by WEA in October 1989 ahead of the album's 1990 release, and it's where the English group's club dreams finally broke through. Jon Marsh and Steve Waddington wrote it and Martyn Phillips produced, and it floats on a borrowed voice: the female vocal comes from "O Euchari", sung by Emily Van Evera on Gothic Voices' A Feather on the Breath of God. Nobody credited the sample on the single, and WEA ended up settling out of court with Hyperion, the Gothic Voices label.

It became a club favourite and the band's first UK top 40 hit, reaching 26 that November, and a 1997 reissue made 31. Looking back in 2011, AllMusic's Jon O'Brien called it gorgeous, the record that introduced Marsh's whispery, seductive vocals and the band's Balearic-meets-acid-house sound.

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