High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Don`t Give Up" is song written by Peter Gabriel and recorded as a duet with Kate Bush for Gabriel`s album So. The single version spent eleven weeks in the UK Top 75 chart in 1986, peaking at number nine. It describes the despair of a man who feels isolated and defeated by the economic system, and the support and wise counsel sung in the refrain. There were two videos created for this song by Godley & Creme. The first consisted of a single take of the singers in an embrace, as the sun enters total eclipse and re-emerges. The second featured Gabriel and Bush`s faces superimposed over film of a town and its people in disrepair.