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" Our Batman week rolls on with a look back at some of the music video tie-ins from the Caped Crusader&amp;#039;s past. Christopher Nolan&amp;#039;s recent Dark Knight trilogy may have brought some credibility back to Batman on the big screen, but there was nary a chart-topping single in sight. This wasn&amp;#039;t the case with the Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher films, which spawned new music from the likes of Prince, U2 and Seal. We take a look at 6 of them below... 1. Prince - &amp;#039;Batdance&amp;#039; (1989) Prince recorded an entire album for Tim Burton&amp;#039;s Batman as Warner Bros pulled out all the stops for its big budget relaunch of the character in the &amp;#039;80s. The LP spawned five singles in total, the lead being this US number one &amp;#039;Batdance&amp;#039;. It&amp;#039;s a crazy, anarchic track that throws together rock, dance and funk... we imagine Jack Nicholson&amp;#039;s Joker would approve.      2. Siouxsie and the Banshees - &amp;#039;Face to Face&amp;#039; (1992) Unlike its predecessor, Batman Returns didn&amp;#039;t have a lavish spinoff soundtrack. However, it did spawn this number from Siouxsie and the Banshees. The group penned the track with Batman composer Danny Elfman. It peaked at number 21 in the UK singles countdown and seven on the Billboard Modern Rock chart.      3. U2 - &amp;#039;Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me&amp;#039; (1995) Bono and pals served up this lead single from Val Kilmer&amp;#039;s Batman debut. The track, a slightly sleazy, scuzzy-sounding number, is surprisingly a corker and on any other day would&amp;#039;ve been great as a James Bond song. It reached number two in the UK singles chart back in 1995 and was the first of five releases from the Batman Forever soundtrack album.      4. Seal - Kiss from a Rose (1995) Dubbed the &amp;#039;love theme&amp;#039; from Batman Forever (we&amp;#039;re assuming in reference to Bruce Wayne and Chase Meridian, and not Bruce and Dick Grayson...), Seal originally released this ballad in 1994 from his second eponymous album. It got a second life a year later thanks to the Dark Knight and even managed to back two Grammys.      5. Smashing Pumpkins - &amp;#039;The End Is the Beginning Is the End&amp;#039; (1997) When you think of George Clooney&amp;#039;s nippletastic, neon-drenched outing as Batman of course you naturally think Smashing Pumpkins. The lead single from the Batman &amp;amp; Robin soundtrack album is probably better than the movie it derives from and, like Seal, managed to bag a Grammy. An alternative version of the song memorably soundtracked a Watchmen trailer in 2008.      6. R Kelly - Gotham City (1997) If Smashing Pumpkins were Batman &amp;amp; Robin&amp;#039;s rocky U2 equivalent, then R Kelly pulled a Seal by slowing things down for this ballad. &amp;quot;A city of justice, a city of love, a city of peace, for every one of us,&amp;quot; he croons in his moving love letter to Bruce Wayne&amp;#039;s hometown, perhaps not quite realising it&amp;#039;s a city crawling with some of the deadliest villains known to man.      The men behind Batman&amp;#039;s mask - 75 years of the Dark Knight: Click to enlarge image "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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