"Survive" is a song and single written by David Bowie

David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

 and Reeves Gabrels

Reeves Gabrels

Reeves Gabrels is an American guitarist, known for virtuosity, versatility, and originality. His compositions and improvisations defy genre and "explore sonic extremes with a great, adaptive intuition for what each song needs most."...

 for the album 'hours...' in 1999

1999 in music

-Events:*January 7**After eight years of marriage, Rod Stewart and supermodel wife Rachel Hunter announce their separation.**Paul McCartney attends the first of his stepdaughter Heather's first housewares collection in Georgia....

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UK CD version 1

1. "Survive (Marius De Vries
   Marius de Vries
   Marius Van Wyk de Vries is an English music producer and composer. He has been behind some of the key albums and soundtracks of recent times, gathering five Grammy nominations, two BAFTAs, and an Ivor Novello award along the way.-Music Producer:...
   
    mix)" - 4:18
2. "Survive (Album version)" - 4:11
3. "The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell" (Stigmata
   Stigmata (film)
   Stigmata is a 1999 supernatural horror film directed by Rupert Wainwright and starring Patricia Arquette as a hairdresser from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who is afflicted with the stigmata after acquiring a rosary formerly owned by a deceased Italian priest who himself suffered from the phenomena...
   
    soundtrack version)

This version also includes the full length "Survive" video in QuickTime format.

UK CD version 2

1. "Survive (live)" - 4:11
2. "Thursday's Child (live)" - 5:37
3. "Seven (live)" - 4:06

This version also includes a full length video in QuickTime format of the live version of "Survive". All tracks are from the Paris

Paris

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 Elysée Montmartre show

The 'hours...' Tour

The Hours... Tour was a small-scale promotional concert tour by David Bowie comprising eight live performances and numerous television appearances in support of the album Hours......

 on October 13, 1999.

International CD version 1

1. "Survive (Marius De Vries
   Marius de Vries
   Marius Van Wyk de Vries is an English music producer and composer. He has been behind some of the key albums and soundtracks of recent times, gathering five Grammy nominations, two BAFTAs, and an Ivor Novello award along the way.-Music Producer:...
   
    mix)" - 4:18
2. "Survive (Album version)" - 4:11

International CD version 2

1. "Survive (Marius De Vries
   Marius de Vries
   Marius Van Wyk de Vries is an English music producer and composer. He has been behind some of the key albums and soundtracks of recent times, gathering five Grammy nominations, two BAFTAs, and an Ivor Novello award along the way.-Music Producer:...
   
    mix)" - 4:18
2. "Survive (Album version)" - 4:11
3. "Thursday's Child (live)" - 5:37
4. "Seven (live)" - 4:06

A promo version and a 7" vinyl version with the same track list as the "International CD version 1" was also released.

Production credits

• Producers
  Record producer
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  • David Bowie
  • Reeves Gabrels
  • Marius De Vries
    Marius de Vries
    Marius Van Wyk de Vries is an English music producer and composer. He has been behind some of the key albums and soundtracks of recent times, gathering five Grammy nominations, two BAFTAs, and an Ivor Novello award along the way.-Music Producer:...
    
     on "Marius De Vries mix"

• Mixed by:
  • Mark Plati
    Mark Plati
    Mark Plati is a New York-based musician, record producer, and songwriter, widely acclaimed for his work in the 1990s with David Bowie. An in-demand producer, Plati also has worked with Spookey Ruben, The Cure, Duncan Sheik, Hooverphonic, Robbie Williams, Joe McIntyre, and Natalie Imbruglia...
    
    

• Musician
  Musician
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  s:
  • David Bowie
    David Bowie
    David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
    
    : vocals
    Singing
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    , Keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
    
    , 12 string acoustic guitar
    Guitar
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    , Roland 707 drum programming.
  • Reeves Gabrels
    Reeves Gabrels
    Reeves Gabrels is an American guitarist, known for virtuosity, versatility, and originality. His compositions and improvisations defy genre and "explore sonic extremes with a great, adaptive intuition for what each song needs most."...
    
    : Electric guitar and acoustic 6 and 12 string guitars, Drum loops and programming, synth
    Synthesizer
    A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
    
    .
  • Mark Plati
    Mark Plati
    Mark Plati is a New York-based musician, record producer, and songwriter, widely acclaimed for his work in the 1990s with David Bowie. An in-demand producer, Plati also has worked with Spookey Ruben, The Cure, Duncan Sheik, Hooverphonic, Robbie Williams, Joe McIntyre, and Natalie Imbruglia...
    
    : Bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
    
    , Acoustic & electric 12 string guitar, Synth and drum programming, Mellotron
    Mellotron
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  • Mike Levesque: drums
    Drum kit
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  • Brendan Gallagher: Guitar on "Marius De Vries mix".

Live versions

• A live version recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre in London, June 27, 2000, was released on the live bonus disc that followed the first released of Bowie at the Beeb
  Bowie at the Beeb
  Bowie at the Beeb is a compilation album by David Bowie, first released in 2000. Originally, it came in a three CD set, the third, bonus CD being a recording on at the Portland BBC Radio Theatre...
  
  .

Other releases

• The "Marius De Vries mix" was released on the bonus disc that followed the 2004 reissue of 'hours...' .