3 STORIES
1977 · 70S
LITTLE SOLSBURY HILL, NEAR BATH, SOMERSET, UK
"Solsbury Hill" sounds like a triumphant anthem, but it's actually Peter Gabriel's resignation letter — a coded account of the night he deci…
1986 · 80S
The world's favourite boombox-under-the-window love song was reportedly written to be deliberately ambiguous about who is being adored — a l…
1986 · 80S
BATH, UK
Behind the goofy claymation chickens and the brass-band groove, "Sledgehammer" is one of pop's most cheerfully unsubtle sex songs — a former…