MANIC STREET PREACHERS: The Everlasting CD PROMO stickered card sleeve with inner card wallet. Check video

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Manic Street Preachers – The Everlasting
Label: Epic   666686 2
Format: CD, Single, PROMO CD1
Country: UK
Released: 1998
Genre: Rock
Style: Brit Pop
Tracklist :
1 The Everlasting 6:11
2 Black Holes For The Young 4:11
Vocals Sophie Ellis-Bextor
3 Valley Boy 5:10

Phonographic Copyright (p) Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd.
Copyright (c) Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd.
Distributed By Sony Music

Engineer [Assistant] Lee Butler (tracks: 2, 3)
Engineer, Mixed By Ian Grimble (tracks: 1, 2)
Mixed By Dave Eringa (tracks: 3)
Mixed By [Assistant] John Bailey (tracks: 3)
Producer Mike Hedges (tracks: 1, 2)
Producer, Engineer Dave Eringa (tracks: 2, 3)
Written-by [Lyrics] Nick Jones
Written-by [Music] James Dean Bradfield, Sean Moore

Released in a stickered card sleeve with inner card wallet.
“Perhaps my best years are gone but I wouldn’t want them back, not with the fire in me now” – Samuel Beckett
Sophie Ellis Bexter appears courtesy of Elleffe/Mercury Records.
The Everlasting is taken from the album This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours.
Barcode: 5 099766 668628
Other (Label Print Code): CA
Matrix / Runout: A0100259822-0101 14 A2
Other (S.I.D. Code): IFPI L554
Label Code: LC 0199
Rights Society: MCPS/BIEM/SDRM

“The Everlasting” is a song by Manic Street Preachers, released as a single on November 30, 1998, the second single to be released from the This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours. All three members of the band – James Dean Bradfield, Sean Moore and Nicky Wire – share the writing credits. Nicky Wire borrowed the title, “The Everlasting”, from a poem by his brother Patrick Jones, after spending some time trying to think of something similar to Blurs “The Universal” or Joy Divisions “The Eternal”.
CD single number one included “Black Holes for the Young” – a duet with Sophie Ellis-Bextor which is a criticism of London culture – and “Valley Boy”, a song which criticizes the European Union. A second CD single featured remixes of “The Everlasting” – “Deadly Avenger Mix” and “Stealth Sonic Orchestra Mix”.
The promotional video that accompanied the song was censored because it contained people on fire. The original version was considered insensitive as the release of the single coincided with the well publicised inquest into the death of a man who had burnt alive. Two versions of the video were therefore produced – one with computer generated flames, one without. The video was filmed at Euston railway station in London.
The single reached #11 on the UK Single Charts, breaking their run of consecutive top ten hits.