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Shining Star (INXS song)

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Released
  
2 November 1991

Genre
  
Alternative rock

Recorded
  
1991

Length
  
3:52

B-side
  
"I Send a Message" (live)

Format
  
7", 12", Cassette, CD single

"Shining Star" is a song by Australian popular rock band INXS and was the only single issued from the band's live album, Live Baby Live, released in November 1991. It is the one new studio track recorded for the album and it peaked at No. 21 on the ARIA Singles Chart, No. 27 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the group's ninth Top 40 single. In the United States, it peaked at No. 4 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart and No. 14 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, but did not appear on the Billboard Hot 100.

Contents

B-sides

Four live tracks were released as B-sides, three of them in the US, Europe and Japan: I Send a Message (from Wembley, London 1991), Faith in Each Other (from London or Sydney 1990) and Bitter Tears (from Paris). The fourth track was The Loved One (from Wembley, London 1991) and was released in Australia in all formats instead of Faith in Each Other. All these tracks were only available on the single.

Track listing

  • 7"/12"/Cassette EP/CD Mercury/Europe, Atlantic/US, EastWest/Japan

    • Tracks:

    1. "Shining Star"
    2. "Send a Message" (Live)
    3. "Faith In Each Other" (Live)
    4. "Bitter Tears" (Live)
  • 12"/Cassette EP/CD EastWest/Australia

    • Tracks:

    1. "Shining Star"
    2. "Send a Message" (Live)
    3. "Bitter Tears" (Live)
    4. "The Loved One" (Live)

    References

    Shining Star (INXS song) Wikipedia
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