ON THIS DAY IN 1986 - PETER GABRIEL HITS NUMBER ONE WITH "SO"

On this day in 1986 – Peter Gabriel Hits Number One with “So”

On this day in 1986 – Peter Gabriel scored his second solo UK No.1 album with ‘So’ featuring the singles ‘Sledgehammer’ and a duet with Kate Bush ‘Don’t Give Up’. The song was inspired by the Depression-era photographs of Dorothea Lange, showing poverty-stricken Americans in Dust Bowl conditions.

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