Never (Mie album)

1984 studio album by MIE

NEVER

Studio album by

MIE

Released| 25 August 1984 (1984-08-25)
Genre| Pop rock
Language| Japanese
Label| CBS Sony
MIE chronology
| Call Girl "from MIE to you"
(1981)  | NEVER
(1984)  | Diamond & Gold
(1992)

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Singles from  NEVER

1. "NEVER"
Released: 21 January 1984 (1984-01-21)
2. "Hai to Diamond"
Released: 21 October 1984 (1984-10-21)

NEVER is the third studio album by Japanese singer MIE. The album was released through CBS Sony on October 5, 1982. The title track, a Japanese-language cover of the Moving Pictures song from the Footloose soundtrack, peaked at No. 4 in Oricon's singles chart.[1][2] "Never" was also used as the theme song for the TBS drama series Furyō Shōjo to Yobarete (不良少女とよばれて; Call Me a Bad Girl).[3]

The album was reissued on October 24, 2007 as NEVER -Special Edition-, with eight bonus tracks and a DVD.[4][5][6]

## Track listing

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Side A

No.| Title| Lyrics| Music| Arrangement| Length

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1.| "NEVER"| Gorō Matsui|

* Dean Pitchford
* Michael Gore

| Osamu Totsuka|
2.| "Hungry"| Keiko Asō|

* Kathleen A. Parker
* Alan O'Day

| Totsuka|
3.| "Dancing Love"| Miharu Kanagami| Kyōhei Tsutsumi| Yutaka Mogi|
4.| "Memory"| Asō|

* Gary Harrison
* J. D. Martin

| Totsuka|
5.| "Somebody"| Asō|

* Steven Diamond
* Lois Blaich

| Totsuka|
6.| "I Love How You Love Me"|

* Barry Mann
* Larry Kolber

* Mann
* Kolber

| Makoto Matsushita|

Side B

No.| Title| Lyrics| Music| Arrangement| Length

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1.| "Otsudane" ((おつだね; "That's Good"))| Takemi Shima| Ryudo Uzaki| Totsuka|
2.| "Mō Umi e Nanka Ikanai" ((もう海へなんか行かない; "I Don't Go to the Sea Anymore"))| Takashi Matsumoto| Tsutsumi| Tsutsumi|
3.| "Je t'aime" (Jutemu (ジュテム; "I Love You"))| Jun Hashimoto| Tsutsumi| Masaaki Omura|
4.| "Gikochinai Shibai" ((ぎこちない芝居; "Awkward Play"))| Rei Nakanishi| Takashi Ike| Kōji Makaino|
5.| "Dakishimete -Sicilian Wind-" ((抱きしめて −Sicilian Wind−; "Hold Me -Sicilian Wind-"))| Tomoko Soryō| T. Soryō| Yasunori Soryō|

Special Edition bonus tracks

No.| Title| Lyrics| Music| Arrangement| Length

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12.| "Hai to Diamond" (Hai to Daiyamondo (灰とダイヤモンド; "Diamond in the Ashes"))| Saburō Higashimoto| Tsutsumi| Matsushita|
13.| "Mega Madness" (Michael Sembello cover; originally from the Gremlins soundtrack)| Matsui|

* Donald Freeman
* Mark Hudson
* Michael Sembello

| Totsuka|
14.| "Kagami no Naka no On'na" ((鏡の中の女; "Woman in the Mirror"))| Nakanishi| Ike| Makaino|
15.| "Dreamer"| Masumi Kawamura| Tsutsumi| Kazuo Otani|
16.| "Talk Crazy to Me"| Higashimoto|

* O'Day
* Margaret Harris

| Totsuka|
17.| "Hirugao Roman" ((昼顔恋話(ロマン); "Daytime Romance"))| Kawamura| Tsutsumi| Keiichi Oku|
18.| "Hitori Kiri no Pillow Talk" (Hitori Kiri no Pirō Tōku (ひとりきりのピロートーク; "Lonely Pillow Talk"))| Kawamura| Tsutsumi| Oku|
19.| "Manatsu no Rhythm de Daydream" (Manatsu no Rizumu de Deidorīmu (真夏のリズムで Daydream; "Daydream with Midsummer Rhythm"))| Mori| Akihiro Yoshimi| Satoshi Nakamura|

Special Edition DVD

1. "NEVER" / "Somebody"
2. "Dakishimete -Sicilian Wind-"
3. "Hungry"
4. "Mega Madness"
5. "Memory"
6. "NEVER"
7. "I Love How You Love Me"

## See also

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* 1984 in Japanese music

## References

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1. ^ "Pink Discography: Mie". Pink Lady America. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
2. ^ "Mie - "Never"". Discogs. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
3. ^ "良少女とよばれて". TV Drama Database. Retrieved 2020-02-13.
4. ^ "NEVER | MIE". Oricon. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
5. ^ "Mie - "Never -Special Edition-"". Discogs. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
6. ^ "MIE". Idol.ne.jp. Retrieved 2020-02-11.

## External links

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* Official website
* NEVER at MusicBrainz
* NEVER at Discogs

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Mie

Studio albums|

* I My Mie
* Call Girl "From Mie to You"
* Never
* Diamond & Gold
* Me Ing

Live albums|

* Mie Live

Compilation albums|

* Golden Best Mie: Hallelujah Hurricane
* Mie to 未唯mie: 1981–2023 All Time Best

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* "Never"

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* Pink Lady
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