True Faith
| "True Faith" | ||
|---|---|---|
| Missing image Truefaithsmall.jpg True Faith | ||
| Single by New Order | ||
| Non-album single | ||
| Single Released | July 1987 | |
| Single Format | Vinyl record (12" and 7"), CD (1994 re-issue) | |
| Genre | Dance | |
| Song Length | 5:53 | |
| Record label | Factory | |
| Producer | Stephen Hague | |
| Chart positions | #4 (UK) #32 (US) | |
| New Order single chronology | ||
| "Bizarre Love Triangle" 1986 | "True Faith" 1987 | "Touched by the Hand of God" 1987 |
True Faith is a 1987 track from New Order, produced by Stephen Hague.
First appearing as the last track on Substance 1987 (Factory Records version, others had it as the first track), True Faith was released as single later in 1987. It was never used as a track on an album. The first public performance of the song took place at the 1987 Glastonbury Festival; this version appears on the group's BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert album.
True Faith, or The Morning Sun as some editions title it, is perhaps New Order's second best known track, after Blue Monday. It has a surreal Peter Saville inspired music video, which has been repeatedly voted amongst the best music videos produced. It was produced by Philippe Decouflé, and won the BPI award for Best Promotional Video in 1987. Sky Television's channel The Amp, for instance, has it rated as the best video of 1987. It is also infamous for its variations when played live, which regularly add drug references to the song, and on one occasion, libeled Michael Jackson. The line They're afraid of what they see is regularly changed They're all taking drugs with me when performed live, as this was the original phrasing, changed only at the last minute by the producer.
The entire track is believed to be about heroin usage, which its surreal video seems to confirm, with imagery that may be seen as depicting the fight to get off an addictive substance.
Like the majority of New Order tracks, the words True and Faith do not appear anywhere in the lyrics.
The track charted at number 3 in the United Kingdom on its original release in 1987, and a minorly edited version of it charted again in 1994 at number 4.