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The Shining, an English rock group formed in 1999, emerged from former members of The Stone Roses, The Verve, and the Seahorses, with John Squire and Simon Jones as founding musicians; the band’s lineup also included drummer Mark Heaney and vocalist Duncan Baxter. Their breakthrough came with the single "Quicksilver / Dum Dum" in April 2002, which garnered attention on Zuma Recordings and led to a distribution deal with Sony Music. In September 2002 the group released their sole album True Skies, featuring the hit single "Young Again" that appeared on a ProSieben trailer soundtrack; the album achieved modest chart success in the United Kingdom and supported a European tour. After the tour, contractual and personnel changes-most notably Squire’s departure and the signing of Simon Tong and Dan MacBean-preceded the band’s dissolution in late 2002 when Epic/Sony chose not to renew their contract. Subsequent careers saw Simon Tong join Blur and Dan MacBean co‑found Engineers, while Mark Heaney collaborated with artists such as Badly Drawn Boy. The Shining’s brief output of one album and three singles remains a footnote in early 2000s UK alternative rock, with True Skies occasionally cited in retrospectives of the era’s supergroup experiments.
