Thru These Walls
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| Single by Phil Collins | ||||
| from the album Hello, I Must Be Going! | ||||
| B-side | "Do You Know, Do You Care?" | |||
| Released | October 1982 | |||
| Format | 7" | |||
| Recorded | May–September 1982 at Old Croft On 1" 8 track | |||
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| Length | 5:05 | |||
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Virgin Records (UK) Atlantic Records (International) |
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| Writer(s) | Phil Collins | |||
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| Phil Collins singles chronology | ||||
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"Thru' These Walls" is a song by the English singer-songwriter Phil Collins. It was released as a single in October 1982, being Collins' fourth single. The song is also the seventh track on Collins' second solo studio album, Hello, I Must Be Going!, released in November of the same year (1982). The song is very dark, which follows a vast majority of songs from the album, and is about a man listening through the wall to his neighbours partaking in unseemly sexual activities.
The song has distinct similarities with Collins's debut solo single "In The Air Tonight", featuring similar atmospheric opening chords on a Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 and also utilized the same gated reverb drum part several times. The song also features one of Collins's attempts at a "Ringo Starr drum part", who is his biggest influence as a drummer.
The song was the first single by Collins that did not reach the Top 20 in the UK, peaking only at No. 56 in the UK (it was not released as a single in the U.S.). The song gained little airplay on album-oriented rock or adult-contemporary radio formats in the UK.
The music video for the song was directed by Stuart Orme, who also directed the video for "In The Air Tonight".
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