You Must Love Me

Infobox Single
Name = You Must Love Me


Artist = Madonna
from Album = Evita
B-side = "Rainbow High"
Released = October 27, 1996 (U.K.), October 28, 1996 (U.S.)
Format = CD Single
Cassette Single
7" Single
Recorded = 1995
Length = 3:09 (Single Version)
Genre = Pop
Label = Warner Bros.
Writer = Tim Rice
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Producer = Nigel Wright
Alan Parker
Andrew Lloyd Webber
David Caddick
Last single ="Love Don't Live Here Anymore (Remix)"
(1996)
This single = "You Must Love Me"
(1996)
Next single = "Don't Cry for Me Argentina"
(1996/1997)"You Must Love Me" is a song by American singer Madonna from the 1996 soundtrack to the film "Evita". The song was released as a single in October 1996.

ong information

The track is the only new song for the movie that was not included on the original stage version of the musical. The song united lyricist Tim Rice and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber after thirteen years of not working together on any new songs. The song was written specifically for the film (the director Alan Parker requested a rewrite of parts of the final scenes of the score) and was included in the stage production for the first time when the musical was revived in June 2006 at London's Adelphi Theatre.

The song speaks on two levels: First, the "literal" level of Eva Perón's discovery that her husband Juan Perón has actually loved her all along and not merely seen her as a political prop. Second, in a more political level, as Eva Peron talking to her people, notably represented in the musical by the character of "Che".

The song won an Academy Award for Best Original Song From A Motion Picture at the Oscars in March 1997. Madonna also performed the song at the awards. The song also won a Golden Globe Award as Best Original Song. The B-side to the single was "Rainbow High".

The song returned Madonna to the UK top ten, at number ten (selling 90,428 copies), and it was the beginning of an eight year run of consecutive UK top ten hits until the end of 2004 when "Love Profusion" stalled at number eleven. It also become a hit in US, reaching number eighteen.

Brooke White covered this song on the seventh season of American Idol, during Andrew Lloyd Webber week. She marked Idol history that night when she stopped after the first verse in the song to restart because she forgot the lyrics.

Madonna performed the song on a world tour for the very first time in 2008 on the Sticky and Sweet Tour, marking the only acoustic, down-tempo moment in the entire show, which was dance intensive.

Music video

Madonna filmed the music video for "You Must Love Me" at Culver Studios in Culver City, California in September 1996 while she was eight months pregnant with her daughter Lourdes. The video was produced and directed by Alan Parker, also the director of "Evita". The video also includes footage from the film "Evita", and shows Madonna singing the song in a small room. She stands behind an acoustic piano, and her pianist and cellist are also in the video.

*Director: Alan Parker
*Producer: Alan Parker
*Director of Photography: Darius Khondji
*Editor: Gerry Hambling
*Production Company: First Avenue Films Inc.

Remixes

This song was not remixed, however a few versions of the song were made for the single release. The single version has an instrumental intro, whilst the album version begins acappella.

*Album Version (2:50)
*Single Version (3:09)
*Orchestral Version (Evita end credits) (4:27)
*Radio Edit (2:22)

Charts