"You Love Us" is a single by the Welsh

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 rock

Rock music

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 band Manic Street Preachers

Manic Street Preachers

Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh alternative rock band, formed in 1986. They are James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Richey Edwards and Sean Moore. The band are part of the Cardiff music scene, and were at their most prominent during the 1990s...

. It was released on January 16, 1992 and was the third single to be released from their debut album, Generation Terrorists

Generation Terrorists

- Personnel :Manic Street Preachers*James Dean Bradfield – lead vocals, guitar*Richey Edwards – guitar*Sean Moore – drums, percussion, backing vocals*Nicky Wire – bass, piano on Little Baby NothingAdditional personnel...

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The CD included "A Vision of Dead Desire", "We Her Majesty's Prisoners" and "It's So Easy" (live). The 12" "A Vision of Dead Desire" and "It's So Easy

It's So Easy

-Personnel:* Axl Rose - lead vocals* Izzy Stradlin - rhythm guitar, backing vocals* Slash - lead guitar* Duff McKagan - bass, backing vocals* Steven Adler - drums-Cover versions:...

" (live) and the 7" and cassette "A Vision of Dead Desire".

The song reached number sixteen in the UK

United Kingdom

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 charts on February 1, 1992. It was the most successful single released from the album. It also made an appearance as track number six on the 2002 greatest hits compilation, Forever Delayed

Forever Delayed

Forever Delayed is a greatest hits album by the Manic Street Preachers, released in October 2002. The album included three singles which had never appeared on earlier albums , the latter being one of the band's two UK #1 hits, along with "If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next." Several...

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An earlier version was released by Heavenly Records

Heavenly Records

Heavenly Records, aka Heavenly Recordings, is a London-based record label, distributed by EMI. Founded by Jeff Barrett, a former press officer for Creation Records and many successful indie bands of the time including Happy Mondays, Heavenly Recordings' first releases were 7" and 12" singles for...

 on May 25, 1991 (see "You Love Us (Heavenly Version)"). The new version had a much heavier rock sound and the "Lust for Life" coda

Coda

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 was replaced, on the album version of the track, by an extended guitar solo.

The Manics dedicated the song to boxer

Boxing

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 Félix Savón

Félix Savón

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 when they became the first western

Western world

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 rock band February 2001 to perform in Cuba

Cuba

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The song was the last ever performed live with missing guitarist and lyricist Richey James Edwards. As a foursome the band played the song as set-closer for their sellout final gig at the London Astoria

London Astoria

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 just five weeks before Edwards vanished.

CD

1. "You Love Us"
2. "A Vision of Dead Desire"
3. "We Her Majesty's Prisoners"
4. "It's So Easy" (live Guns N' Roses
   Guns N' Roses
   Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in 1985. The band has released six studio albums, three EPs, and one live album...
   
   cover at London Marquee, 4 September 1991)

12"

1. "You Love Us"
2. "A Vision of Dead Desire"
3. "It's So Easy" (live Guns N' Roses cover at London Marquee, 4 September 1991)