All Mine

The lead single from the second album, with a horn section arranged by Nick Ingman, and the band's only British top 10 hit.
Portishead, from Portishead (1997)

Written by
Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons, Adrian Utley
Released
September 1997
Length
3:59
Album
Portishead

All Mine is the second track and first single from Portishead. Barrow, Gibbons and Utley wrote it and the band produced it with Dave McDonald. Andy Hague, John Cornick and Ben Waghorn played the horns, which Nick Ingman arranged. The single came out in September 1997 on Go! Discs and London Records, with Cowboys, Only You and Over, and entered the UK chart at number 8 on 14 September 1997. It remains the band's only UK top 10 hit. It also reached number 8 in Scotland, 22 on the Eurochart Hot 100, 29 in New Zealand and 36 in Australia.

The black and white video shows a young girl performing the song in front of an orchestra and a camera, with Italian subtitles. It is said to be inspired by a late 1960s Italian music show and The Outer Limits, and a picture from it is on the album cover. Billboard's Larry Flick wrote that Gibbons had perfected her Shirley Bassey vocal inflections. Tom Jones covered the song on his 1999 album Reload. A version with the orchestra appears on Roseland NYC Live.

Covers and versions

More songs by Portishead

Glory Box, Wandering Star, Threads, Sour Times

Sources

  1. All Mine (Portishead song), Wikipedia
  2. Portishead (album), Wikipedia
  3. Roseland NYC Live, Wikipedia