I Don't Believe in You
A song about the broken promises of postwar Britain, with Steve Winwood on organ: the last single from The Colour of Spring.
Talk Talk, from The Colour of Spring (1986)
- Written by
- Mark Hollis, Tim Friese-Greene
- Released
- 10 November 1986 (single)
- Producer
- Tim Friese-Greene
- Length
- 5:02
- Album
- The Colour of Spring
The second track on The Colour of Spring, which Hollis told Oor was about the propaganda films in which the government promised in 1945 that everything would now be wonderful, set against the reality. Its players include Steve Winwood on organ, Robbie McIntosh on guitar, Ian Curnow on solo synthesizer, David Roach on soprano saxophone and Gaynor Sadler on harp. It was the album's fourth and last single, in November 1986, with no video; it peaked at ninety-six. Sounds found it too close to Life's What You Make It. The band played it about twenty times on the 1986 tour. The upload in the hypersongs web is the 1997 remaster by Phill Brown and Denis Blackham. It is easily confused with I Believe in You, two years later.
Covers and versions
- Ian Curnow featuring Human (2012) Spirit of Talk Talk
More songs by Talk Talk
It's My Life, Life's What You Make It, I Believe in You, Myrrhman, Ascension Day
Sources
- I Don't Believe in You, Wikipedia
- The Colour of Spring press archive, Snow in Berlin