"Desire" is the lead single from U2's 1988 album, Rattle and Hum. It was also their first #1 single in the UK. It peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US.
"Desire" is the seventh single of Do As Infinity, released in 2001. "Desire" and "Carnaval" are almost the same songs but "Carnaval" was meant to be written in a male perspective while "Desire" described a female perspective in the lyrics. This single is the last released from Do As Infinity to include a remix.
"Desire" was the second and final single from Geri Halliwell's third studio album, Passion (2005). Released on 30 May 2005, the single peaked at number twenty-two on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Halliwell's lowest-peaking single of her solo career so far. "Desire" went on to sell 12,600 copies in the United Kingdom. Its music video was directed by Andy Morahan.
Desire was the Maltese entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000, performed predominantly in English but with a bridge in Maltese by Claudette Pace.
The song is an up-tempo ballad, with Pace explaining the depth of her feelings to her lover. She tells him that "I've desired to hold you/Have you and make you mine" from their first meeting onwards, and that when he turns her away, her "fire" turns to "smoke". She also tells him that she believes that "Deep in your smile is desire for more".
Composer-lyricist combination Philip Vella and Gerard James Borg would go on to provide the Maltese entry at the 2002, 2004, 2007 and 2008 Contests. Additionally, two of Pace's backing singers were also solo entrants in their own right - Sahlene, performing under her real name, would go on to represent Estonia with Runaway and Gabriel Forss had previously represented Sweden as a member of Blond with Bara Hon Älskar Mig.
The appearance of the Maltese language is also of note, as it was the first time since Malta's return to the Eurovision stage in 1991 that this language had been heard, a break of 28 years and thus the longest break between two appearances of a language in Contest history.
The song was performed seventh on the night (following Romania's Taxi with The Moon and preceding Norway's Charmed with My Heart Goes Boom). At the close of voting, it had received 73 points, placing 8th in a field of 24.
It was succeeded as Maltese representative at the 2001 Contest by Fabrizio Faniello with Another Summer Night.
