The Pretenders Original
"I'll Stand by You" was released as the second single from the album Last of the Independents in 1994, and it reached number 16 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, the top 30 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart and number 10 in the United Kingdom. It charted higher in the UK and the U.S. than "Night in My Veins", the album's first single.
The "I'll Stand by You" music video was released in 1994 and features Chrissie Hynde caring for an ill man.
The song is available in the form of DLC for the Xbox 360 Game Lips.
Since 2010 the song has been used in an appeal advert for the NSPCC.
Read more about this topic: I'll Stand By You
Famous quotes containing the words pretenders and/or original:
“There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (1622–1673)
“That Calvinistic sense of Innate Depravity and Original Sin, from whose visitations, in some shape or another, no deeply thinking mind is always and wholly free. For, in certain moods, no man can weigh this world, without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)