Blur - Tender Live Canal Plus (Spain 1999)

"Tender" is a song by English alternative rock band Blur. It is the first track on Blur's sixth album 13 and was also released as the lead single before the album's release. The single reached #2 in the UK singles chart - kept off #1 by Britney Spears' "...Baby One More Time".

The song was written by Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon and the vocals are shared on the track. Following Coxon's departure from the group, Blur continued to perform the song live with Albarn asking the audience to sing Coxon's lines; "Oh my baby/Oh my baby/Oh why?/Oh my". At Blur's headline appearance at Reading Festival in 2003 he introduced the song by saying "I don't want, for one moment, to be a sentimental but... Graham wrote this song as well... you know the bits he sings and I want you to sing them as loudly as you possibly can. Everyone needs to sing this song."

The video for the song is a live studio performance with the band and a group of backing singers. An official video for this track was recorded by Sophie Muller (director of the promo videos for Beetlebum and Song 2), but it was never released as the band simply didn't like it.

Initially, the track Swamp Song was slated to appear as one of the single's B-sides, but was promoted to the parent album 13. The appearance of Song 2 on the single was a last-minute substitution.

A remix of the song by Cornelius was released on the "No Distance Left to Run" single. Backing vocals are provided by London Community Gospel Choir.

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[TheDeidaraMaria]

you posted this in birthday :p