Let Forever Be

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"Let Forever Be"
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from the album Surrender
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  • "The Diamond Sky"
  • "Studio K"
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Recorded9 February 1999[1]
StudioOrinoco (South London, England)
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[[Record producer|ProducerTemplate:Pluralize from text]]The Chemical Brothers
The Chemical Brothers singles chronology
"Hey Boy Hey Girl"
(1999) 		"Let Forever Be"
(589) 		"Out of Control"
(1999)
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"Let Forever Be" is a song by English electronic music duo the Chemical Brothers, released as the second single from their third studio album, Surrender (1999), on 23 July 1999 in Japan and on 2 August in the United Kingdom. It contains uncredited vocals from Noel Gallagher of Britpop band Oasis, who also co-wrote the song and previously worked with the Chemical Brothers on "Setting Sun".

"Let Forever Be" was the Chemical Brothers' fourth top-10 single in the United Kingdom, peaking at number nine on the UK Singles Chart. It was also successful in Hungary, where it debuted and peaked at number two, and it reached the top 40 in Ireland and New Zealand. In the United States, the single reached the top 30 on two Billboard charts: the Maxi-Singles Sales chart and the Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Music video

The video for the track was directed by Michel Gondry, and utilized ground-breaking[<span title="Script error: No such module "decodeEncode".">further explanation needed] video and film effects in its depiction of a young woman's nightmares (the girl is played by actress and dancer Stephanie Landwehr[3]). The video, which drew visual inspiration from Ray Davies' 1975 Granada TV production Starmaker, received much media attention and became one of the most well-known videos from the band. The video also makes specific visual and thematic references to the dance sequence "I Only Have Eyes For You" (music by Harry Warren; lyrics by Al Dubin), choreographed by Busby Berkeley for the Warner Bros. musical Dames (1934) directed by Ray Enright. Pitchfork Media named the video the "quintessential Michel Gondry video" and ranked it at number seven in their list of the "Top 50 Music Videos of the 1990s".[4]

Track listings

Standard CD, 12-inch, and cassette single[5][6][7]

  1. "Let Forever Be"
  2. "The Diamond Sky"
  3. "Studio K"

European CD single[8]

  1. "Let Forever Be" (album version)
  2. "Studio K"

Credits and personnel

Credits are lifted from the Surrender album booklet.[9]

Studios

  • Recorded at Orinoco Studios (South London, England)
  • Edited at Berwick Street Studios (London, England)
  • Mastered at The Exchange (London, England)

Personnel

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  • The Chemical Brothers – production
    • Tom Rowlands – writing
    • Ed Simons – writing
  • Noel Gallagher – writing (credited), vocals (uncredited)
  • Steve Dub – engineering
  • Cheeky Paul – editing
  • Mike Marsh – mastering

Charts

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Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[13] Silver 200,000 

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Release history

Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
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  • 7-inch vinyl
  • 12-inch vinyl
  • CD
  • cassette
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United States 3 August 1999 CD Astralwerks [16]

References

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  1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/19990428114830/http://www.oasisinet.com/news.htm
  2. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Best Alternative Rock Songs of 1999". Spin. p. 7. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
  3. ^ from "official Chemical Brothers site's forum" [1] Script error: No such module "webarchive"..
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Top 50 Music Videos of the 1990s - Page 5". Pitchfork. 23 August 2010.
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Let Forever Be (UK CD single liner notes). Freestyle Dust, Virgin Records. 1999. CHEMSD9, 7243 8 95999 2 3.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Let Forever Be (UK 12-inch single sleeve). Freestyle Dust, Virgin Records. 1999. CHEMST9, 7243 8 95999 6 1.
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Let Forever Be (UK cassette single sleeve). Freestyle Dust, Virgin Records. 1999. CHEMSC9, 7243 8 95999 4 7.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Let Forever Be (European CD single liner notes). Freestyle Dust, Virgin Records. 1999. CHEMSDE9, 7243 8 96114 2 7.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Surrender (UK CD album booklet). Freestyle Dust, Virgin Records. 1999. XDUSTCD4, 7243 8 47610 2 8.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Eurochart Hot 100 Singles" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 16, no. 34. 21 August 1999. p. 11. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Top National Sellers" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 16, no. 35. 28 August 1999. p. 10. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Zywietz, Tobias (November 2000). "The Top 200 Singles of 1999" (PDF). Chartwatch. Ilminster, Somerset. pp. 41–42. Retrieved 2 August 2025 – via Zobbel.
  13. ^ Script error: No such module "cite". Select singles in the Formats field. Type Let Forever Be Chemical Brothers in the "Search:" field.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."レット・フォーエバー・ビー | ケミカル・ブラザーズ" [Let Forever Be | The Chemical Brothers] (in 日本語). Oricon. Retrieved 28 August 2023.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."New Releases – For Week Starting 2 August, 1999: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 31 July 1999. p. 27. Retrieved 22 July 2021.
  16. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Let Forever Be". Amazon. Retrieved 22 July 2021.

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