“When You're Gone” by The Cranberries

"When You're Gone" was the third single from To the Faithful Departed, the Cranberries' third album, in 1996, though the song predates the record: the band first aired it on stage in late 1994, while touring North America on the No Need to Argue Tour. Dolores O'Riordan wrote it alone and plays it like a torch song from another decade: she sings lead and picks up acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, keyboard and whistle, with Noel Hogan on guitars, mandolin and backing vocals, Mike Hogan on bass and Fergal Lawler on drums. Bruce Fairbairn produced it with the band.

It went to number four in Norway and nine in Canada, and Karen Bellone shot the video at the end of 1996. The band cut a stripped-down acoustic version for Something Else in 2017, and in January 2018 it closed O'Riordan's funeral, with most Irish radio stations playing it along at the same time.

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