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Who sang Unchained Melody?
Release date: 2002
Duration: 03:54
Producer(s): Phil Spector

Gareth Gates released the song Unchained Melody. Date of release: 2002.

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🎶 Unchained Melody song analysis

- A person is singing about their love and how they are coming back to them

- They explain how time has gone by so slowly without them and that all they need is their love

- They want their love to hurry up and come back to them

- The lyrics also mention a river which could symbolize the journey the person is on to find their loved one or the distance between them

- The phrase "God speed your love to me" is commonly used when saying goodbye to someone or sending them off, which could show that the person singing doesn't think they will ever see their loved one again

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This explanation is based on the lyrics of ‘Unchained Melody’. The meaning is of course subject to interpretation.
The meaning of the song lyrics, in a few words...
The person is singing about their love and how they are coming back to them, explaining how time has gone by so slowly without them and that all they need is their love.
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Gareth Gates - Short Biography


- Gareth Paul Gates is an English singer-songwriter and actor

- Gates was the runner-up in the first series of the ITV talent show Pop Idol in 2002

- As of 2008, Gates had sold over 3.5 million records in the UK

- Gates has a stutter, and has talked about his speech impediment publicly

- Gates used the McGuire Programme to manage his stutter and is now a speech coach with the programme
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- The song "Unchained Melody" was written in 1955 by Alex North with lyrics by Hy Zaret.

- It was written as a theme for the prison film Unchained (1955), hence the song title.

- Todd Duncan sang the vocals for the film soundtrack.

- The song has since become a standard and one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century.

- According to the song's publishing administrator, over 1,500 recordings of "Unchained Melody" have been made by more than 670 artists, in multiple languages.

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