| Diane | |
| Artist: | Hüsker Dü |
| Album: | Metal Circus |
| Released: | October 1983 |
| Recorded: | December 1982–January 1983 |
| Studio: | Total Access Recording, Redondo Beach, California |
| Genre: | Punk rock[1] |
| Length: | 4:42 |
| Label: | SST |
| Producer: |
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"Diane" is a song by American band Hüsker Dü that appears on their Metal Circus EP in 1983, but appeared in their live set as early as 1981, as evidenced by its inclusion in a recording from August that year which appears on the compilation Savage Young Dü. The song was written by drummer Grant Hart, and concerns the murder of West St. Paul waitress Diane Edwards by Joseph Ture Jr. in 1980.[2]
| Diane | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Therapy? |
| Album: | Infernal Love |
| Genre: | |
| Length: | 4:04 |
| Label: | A&M |
| Producer: | Al Clay |
| Prev Title: | Loose |
| Prev Year: | 1995 |
| Next Title: | Church of Noise |
| Next Year: | 1998 |
Northern Irish metal band Therapy? covered the song and released it as a single on November 6, 1995, on A&M Records.[4] The song is featured on the Infernal Love album in a radically different arrangement from the original, featuring only cello and vocals.[5] The single reached number 26 on the UK Singles Chart and number 20 on the Irish Singles Chart. The single entered the top 10 in several European countries, winning an award for best single from Humo Magazine in Belgium.[6] The single was released on CD, CD digipak, CD velvet digipak, red 7-inch vinyl, and cassette.
7-inch and CDTracks three and four were recorded for "Collin's and Maconie's Hit Parade", BBC Radio One.
Velvet digipak CD and cassetteTracks two, three, and four were recorded by Chris Leckie in Zürich, Switzerland, September 1995.
German double CD digipak
Therapy?
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| Chart (1996) | Position | |
|---|---|---|
| Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders)[8] | 61 | |
| Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[9] | 78 |