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Red Rain (song)
"Red Rain" is the first track on English rock musician Peter Gabriel's fifth solo studio album So (1986). The song was released as a promotional single in 1986 and received a commercial release the following year, during which it charted in various countries throughout Europe.
Since its release, "Red Rain" has appeared on some of Gabriel's compilation albums, including Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats. Gabriel has also performed the song on several of his live tours, beginning with the This Way Up Tour.
"Red Rain" was included on a Greenpeace benefit album released by Geffen Records titled Rainbow Warriors, which contained over 25 tracks from artists including INXS, Sting, and Grateful Dead.
"Red Rain" is a combination of several inspirations. The lyrics directly reference a recurring dream Gabriel was having where he swam in his backyard pool drinking cold red wine. Another version of the dream had bottles in the shape of people falling from a cliff. In it, a stream of red liquid would seep out of the people-shaped bottles as they smashed with impact onto the ground, and was usually followed by a torrential downpour of the same red liquid.
Earlier in his solo career, Gabriel had an idea for a movie he referred to as Mozo. In it, villagers were punished for their sins with a blood-red rain. "Red Rain" was to be the theme song. This idea was eventually scrapped, although there was a mention of Mozo in the song "On the Air" in Peter Gabriel (1978). "Down the Dolce Vita", "Here Comes the Flood", and "Exposure" reference the Mozo story, as well.
Strongly percussive in nature, the song features two notable American drummers: Stewart Copeland from the Police played the hi-hat for the rain-like background sound and was requested by Gabriel due to his mastery of the instrument, while the rest of the drumming was provided by Gabriel's regular drummer Jerry Marotta, who recorded eight different drum takes for producer Daniel Lanois to choose from.
In the United States, "Red Rain" was initially only released as a promotional single. By June 1986, the song had been added to 60 percent of album oriented rock radio stations in the United States according to Radio & Records. The song reached number three on Billboard magazine's Mainstream Rock chart, where it stayed for three weeks between July and August.
A year later, in June 1987, the song was released as a commercial single in parts of Europe, Australia and the United States. Virgin Records handled the distribution of the single in the UK, where all variants were appended with a track titled "Ga Ga", an alternate instrumental recording of a Gabriel track titled "I Go Swimming". The twelve-inch single also included "Walk Through the Fire". The song peaked at 46 in the UK Singles Chart after entering the chart in July of that year.
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Red Rain (song)
"Red Rain" is the first track on English rock musician Peter Gabriel's fifth solo studio album So (1986). The song was released as a promotional single in 1986 and received a commercial release the following year, during which it charted in various countries throughout Europe.
Since its release, "Red Rain" has appeared on some of Gabriel's compilation albums, including Shaking the Tree: Sixteen Golden Greats. Gabriel has also performed the song on several of his live tours, beginning with the This Way Up Tour.
"Red Rain" was included on a Greenpeace benefit album released by Geffen Records titled Rainbow Warriors, which contained over 25 tracks from artists including INXS, Sting, and Grateful Dead.
"Red Rain" is a combination of several inspirations. The lyrics directly reference a recurring dream Gabriel was having where he swam in his backyard pool drinking cold red wine. Another version of the dream had bottles in the shape of people falling from a cliff. In it, a stream of red liquid would seep out of the people-shaped bottles as they smashed with impact onto the ground, and was usually followed by a torrential downpour of the same red liquid.
Earlier in his solo career, Gabriel had an idea for a movie he referred to as Mozo. In it, villagers were punished for their sins with a blood-red rain. "Red Rain" was to be the theme song. This idea was eventually scrapped, although there was a mention of Mozo in the song "On the Air" in Peter Gabriel (1978). "Down the Dolce Vita", "Here Comes the Flood", and "Exposure" reference the Mozo story, as well.
Strongly percussive in nature, the song features two notable American drummers: Stewart Copeland from the Police played the hi-hat for the rain-like background sound and was requested by Gabriel due to his mastery of the instrument, while the rest of the drumming was provided by Gabriel's regular drummer Jerry Marotta, who recorded eight different drum takes for producer Daniel Lanois to choose from.
In the United States, "Red Rain" was initially only released as a promotional single. By June 1986, the song had been added to 60 percent of album oriented rock radio stations in the United States according to Radio & Records. The song reached number three on Billboard magazine's Mainstream Rock chart, where it stayed for three weeks between July and August.
A year later, in June 1987, the song was released as a commercial single in parts of Europe, Australia and the United States. Virgin Records handled the distribution of the single in the UK, where all variants were appended with a track titled "Ga Ga", an alternate instrumental recording of a Gabriel track titled "I Go Swimming". The twelve-inch single also included "Walk Through the Fire". The song peaked at 46 in the UK Singles Chart after entering the chart in July of that year.