The lyrics.ĭistraught and heartbroken, Collins sang his emotions into existence. I’m not quite sure what the song is about, but there’s a lot of anger, a lot of despair, and a lot of frustration,” he said. I just wrote a sequence, and it sounded nice. “One day I was working on a piece in D-minor, the saddest of all. When I got back, she said she was leaving and taking the kids.”Īfter this jarring separation, Collins turned to songwriting. Just hold your breath when I’m over there.’ Then Genesis toured Japan. She said to me, ‘We won’t be together if you do the next tour.’ I said, ‘I’m a musician. “Genesis had done a tour that was far too long. “I wrote it after my wife left me,” Collins told Rolling Stone in 2016. Collins wrote this song after he and his first wife Andrea Bertorelli divorced, and the singer was haunted by the emotions that came rolling in afterward. “In The Air Tonight” sounds haunting because, well, it is slightly haunted. Billboard Hot 100.īut what is it about this song that makes it so striking? The origins. The song eventually charted at the number two position on the U.K.
“In The Air Tonight” was also the lead single off of Collins’ debut album, Face Value. Safe to say, Collins had picked up a thing or two while performing with the Genesis rockers.
It was his first-ever solo single after serving as the lead vocalist for the rock band Genesis for several years. Released in January 1981, “In The Air Tonight” was written by English drummer and singer/songwriter Phil Collins with co-producer Hugh Padgham. And who doesn’t love that iconic drum fill?
“In The Air Tonight” is eerie, haunting, goosebump-inducing even.
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