"Survive" is a song and single written by David Bowie and Reeves Gabrels for the album Hours in 1999. "Survive" was released as the third single from the album in January 2000, it reached number 28 on the UK Singles Chart. It was characterized as a confessional highlight in a review by Rolling Stone.[1]
Bowie explained that "There was a time in my life when I was desperately in love with a girl, and I met her as it happens, quite a number of years later. And boy was the flame dead! So in this case on the album the guy's thinking about a girl he knew many years ago, and she was 'the great mistake he never made'"[2]
There is a music video for this song, containing a green background and features objects floating including an egg, a table, Bowie himself and his chair, and eventually retreat back to their positions.[3]
This version also includes a full length video in QuickTime format of the live version of "Survive". All tracks are from the ParisElysée Montmartre show on October 13, 1999.
Brendan Gallagher: Guitar on "Marius De Vries mix".
Live versions
A live version recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre in London, June 27, 2000, was released on the live bonus disc that followed the first released of Bowie at the Beeb.
Other releases
The "Marius De Vries mix" was released on the bonus disc that followed the 2004 reissue of 'hours...' .
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