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

Play on hypersongs

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

More songs by Talk Talk

It's My Life, Life's What You Make It, I Believe in You, Myrrhman, Ascension Day

Sources

  1. I Don't Believe in You, Wikipedia
  2. The Colour of Spring press archive, Snow in Berlin