Shining Star (INXS song) explained

Shining Star
Cover:	Shining Star INXS.jpg
Type:	single
Artist:	INXS
Album:	Live Baby Live
B-Side:	"I Send a Message" (live) "Bitter Tears" (live) – 3:55 "The Loved One" (live)
Length:	3:54
Label:	EastWest
Producer:	Mark Opitz
Prev Title:	The Stairs
Prev Year:	1991
Next Title:	Heaven Sent
Next Year:	1992

"Shining Star" is a song by Australian rock band INXS, released as the only single issued from the band's first live album, Live Baby Live (1991), on 21 October 1991. It is the one new studio track recorded for the album. Upon the song's release, it peaked at  21 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart, No. 27 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the group's ninth top-40 single in the latter country. In the United States, it peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and No. 14 on the Album Rock Tracks chart.

Guest vocalists

The studio recording featured backing vocals by Keith Urban and Stuart McKie.^[1] Urban was yet to release his own first album, and was not yet well known to the public, but was invited to the studio by Kirk Pengilly to join in the recording.^[2]

B-sides

Four live tracks were released as B-sides: "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, "The Loved One" (from Wembley, London 1991), was released in Australia in all formats instead of "Faith in Each Other". All these tracks were only available on the single.

Track listings

• Australian version^{[3] [4] [5]}

1. "Shining Star" – 3:51
2. "I Send a Message" (live) – 4:01
3. "Bitter Tears" (live) – 3:55
4. "The Loved One" (live) – 4:55

• UK version and US 12-inch single^{[6] [7] [8]}

1. "Shining Star" (live EP version) – 3:52
2. "I Send a Message" (live) – 3:26
3. "Faith in Each Other" (live) – 4:40
4. "Bitter Tears" (live) – 3:47

• US and Canadian cassette single^{[9] [10]}

1. "Shining Star"
2. "Faith in Each Other" (live)
3. "Bitter Tears" (live)

• Japanese mini-CD single^[11]

1. "Shining Star"
2. "Bitter Tears" (live)

Release history

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Date	Format(s)	Label
United Kingdom	21 October 1991		Mercury	^[13]
Japan	10 December 1991	Mini-CD	WEA	^[14]

Notes and References

1. Web site: INXS – Shining Star. Discogs. 8 August 2021.
2. News: Adams . Cameron . 7 August 2021. What you didn't know about that notorious INXS concert . live. Daily Telegraph. Sydney. https://archive.today/20210808124241/https://amp.dailytelegraph.com.au/lifestyle/stellar/what-you-didnt-know-about-that-notorious-inxs-concert/news-story/5080d5bc715da41fe1c308b30519d5e7. 8 August 2021. 8 August 2021.
3. Shining Star. INXS. 1991. Australian CD single liner notes. EastWest Records. 903175686.2.
4. Shining Star. INXS. 1991. Australian 12-inch single vinyl disc. EastWest Records. 903175686.0.
5. Shining Star. INXS. 1991. Australian cassette single sleeve. EastWest Records. 9031756864.
6. Shining Star. INXS. 1991. UK 7-inch single sleeve. Mercury Records. INXS 18, 866 028-7.
7. Shining Star. INXS. 1991. UK CD single liner notes. Mercury Records. INXCD 18, 866 029-2.
8. Shining Star. INXS. 1991. US 12-inch single vinyl disc. Atlantic Records. 0-85942.
9. Shining Star. INXS. 1991. US cassette single sleeve. Atlantic Records. 4-87576.
10. Shining Star. INXS. 1991. Canadian cassette single sleeve. Atlantic Records. 78 75764.
11. Shining Star. INXS. 1991. Japanese mini-CD single liner notes. WEA. WMD5-4085.
12. Eurochart Hot 100 Singles. Music & Media. 8. 46. 31. 16 November 1991.
13. New Releases: Singles. Music Week. 19. 19 October 1991.
14. Web site: シャイニング・スター INXS. Shining Star INXS. Oricon. ja. 22 March 2024.