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Shining Light

"Shining Light" is a song by Ash, which was released as the first single from their album Free All Angels. It was released on 29 January 2001. It was released as a single CD (released on 2CD formats) and as a 7-inch vinyl (which came with a picture sleeve). It was also Ash's first single to be released as an enhanced CD. "Shining Light" reached number eight on the UK Singles Chart. The song had been covered by fellow Downpatrick songwriter Triona in 2015 which featured on a Power NI advert.

"Shining Light"

  • "Warmer than Fire"
  • "Gabriel"
  • "Feel No Pain"
  • "Jesus Says" (remix)

29 January 2001 (2001-01-29)

  • 5:09 (album version)
  • 4:07 (radio edit)

Tim Wheeler

Owen Morris

Tim: "I think Shining Light's a breath of fresh air"

Rick: "It's a very melodic song, it sticks in your head, so we thought it'd have a pretty good chance of getting in the Top 10. It was good being back there 'cos it's been a long time, over two years since we had a single out".

Charlotte: "It was the first song we recorded and we knew it would be the first single".

Appearances in popular media[edit]

"Shining Light" was the closing song in the last episode of the American science fiction television series Roswell.


"Shining Light" also appears as the background music for the special film on the racehorse Fantastic Light, which appeared on the 2005 Darley Stud Stud Book.


"Shining Light" features as a background track in Season 2 Episode 9 of the Channel 4 TV Series, "Teachers"


The version recorded by Annie Lennox was used as Elaine Hammond's (Sigourney Weaver) theme song in the US mini-series Political Animals.

"Shining Light"

2 March 2009

2008

Pop

  • 4:05 (album version)
  • 3:53 (radio edit)

RCA

Tim Wheeler