| "In Demand" | ||||
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| Single by Texas | ||||
| from the album The Greatest Hits | ||||
| B-side | "Early Hours" "Like Lovers (Holding On)" |
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| Released | 2 October 2000 | |||
| Format | CD single | |||
| Recorded | 2000 | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 4:26 | |||
| Label | Mercury Records MERCD 528 / MERDD 528 |
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| Writer(s) | Johnny McElhone / Sharleen Spiteri Dallas Austin |
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| Producer | Dallas Austin | |||
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"In Demand" is the nineteenth single released in the UK by Scottish band Texas.[1] It was released in October 2000 as the first single from their multi-platinum album The Greatest Hits and reached number six on the UK Singles Chart.
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The song, "In Demand", is a swipe by its protagonist (represented in the first person) at a former lover who once dated and then dumped her, but has made a concerted effort to win her back after she has found both fame and the love of another - now that she is "in demand." The singer makes it clear that she does not trust the ex's motives, thinking that he only wants her back because he is jealous now that she is not his. The single was accompanied by a music video which starred Alan Rickman alongside Spiteri. In it Spiteri is seen wrapped up in a parka jacket being driven through the night in the back of a chauffeured Bentley Azure. A suited Rickman pets her like a dog and comforts her while helicopters and motorbikes photograph them. When the car pulls in for petrol, Rickman pulls off Spiteri's parka jacket to reveal an evening dress underneath and they dance one seriously sexy tango together on the station forecourt. The Petrol forecourt scene was filmed at the Shell petrol station in Bordon, Hampshire.
In the early morning the car drives them into a seaside town and parks up outside a run down apartment block, where it is revealed that - contrary to what the scenario and the song lyrics have so far led us to believe - Spiteri's character is not a passenger in Rickman's Bentley, it is in fact the other way around - for as Rickman hauls a shabby backpack out of the boot and enters the building, Spiteri is driven away by her chauffeur.
| Chart (2000) | Peak position |
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| UK Singles Chart[4] | 6 |
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