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"In the Air Tonight" has been described as being "at the vanguard of experimental pop" in 1981 and "a rock oddity classic", having been influenced by "the unconventional studio predilections of Brian Eno and Peter Gabriel". [2] It has also been described as a "soft rock classic." [3] Musically, the song consists of a series of ominous chords played on a Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 over a simple drum machine pattern (the Roland CR-78 Disco-2 pattern, plus some programming); processed electric guitar sounds and vocoded vocals, an effect which is increased on key words to add additional atmosphere. The mood is one of restrained anger until the final chorus when an explosive burst of drums finally releases the musical tension and the instrumentation explodes into a thunderous crescendo. Composed in D minor, it has a moderate tempo of 96 beats per minute. [12]

Collins has described obtaining the drum machine specifically to deal with personal issues relating to his divorce through songwriting, telling Mix magazine: "I had to start writing some of this music that was inside me". [13] He improvised the lyrics during a songwriting session in the studio: "I was just fooling around. I got these chords that I liked, so I turned the mic on and started singing. The lyrics you hear are what I wrote spontaneously. That frightens me a bit, but I'm quite proud of the fact that I sang 99.9 percent of those lyrics spontaneously". [14]

Drum sound

The song is famous for its use of the gated reverb drum sound. Fellow musicians and journalists have commented on its use in the record. Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne called the drum fill "the best ever – it still sounds awesome", [15] while music critic and broadcaster Stuart Maconie was quoted:

Musically, it's an extraordinarily striking record, because almost nothing happens in it ... It's the drum sound in particular that's amazing. You don't hear it at all for the first two minutes of the song ... then there's that great doo-dom doo-dom doo-dom comes in, and the drums come in half way through the song, setting the template for all the Eighties drum songs after that. [16]

The means by which Collins attained the drum sound on this recording was long a source of mystery. The exact process was a result of serendipity: an unintended use of studio technology giving unexpectedly useful results.

In this case, the Solid State Logic SL 4000 mixing board had a "reverse talk-back" circuit (labelled on the board as "Listen Mic"). Normal "talkback" is a button that the mixing engineer has to press in order to talk to the recording musicians (the recording and the mixing parts of a studio are, otherwise, completely sonically isolated). Reverse talkback is a circuit (also button-activated) for the engineer to listen to the musicians in the studio. In order to compensate for sound level differences—people can be close to the reverse talkback microphone or far off—this circuit has a compressor on it, which minimises the differences between loud and soft sounds. While recording "Intruder" for his former bandmate Peter Gabriel's third solo album, at some point Collins started playing the drums while the reverse talkback was activated. Engineer Hugh Padgham was amazed at the sound achieved. Overnight, they rewired the board so that the reverse talkback could be recorded in a more formal manner. Later models of the SSL 4000 allowed the listen mic to be recorded with the touch of a button. [13]

When recording engineer Padgham was brought in to help develop Collins' demos that would become Face Value they recreated the "Intruder" sound using the reverse talkback microphone as well as heavily compressed and gated ambient mics. Padgham continued working with Genesis for Abacab later in 1981 and the same technique (generally referred to as gated reverb) was used, and the powerful drum sound has become synonymous with later Genesis projects and Collins' solo career ever since.

The original single version of "In the Air Tonight" features extra drums that play underneath the song until the signature drum crash (referred to by fans as the "magic break") appears. These were added at the suggestion of Atlantic Records head Ahmet Ertegun. In 2007, Collins wrote:

Ahmet came down to the final mix in the cutting room in New York ... The drums don't come in until the end but Ahmet didn't know that at this point, because on the demo the drums hadn't come in at all; it was only drum machine all the way. And he was saying, "Where's the down beat, where's the backbeat?" I said, "The drums come in in a minute." "Yeah, you know that and I know that, but the kids don't know that; you've got to put the drums on earlier." So we added some drums to the mix and put it out as a single. [17]

Release

Speaking about the song's rapid ascension in the music charts, Collins wrote the following in 2007:

It was a surprise. The single came in at No. 36, I did Top of the Pops with Dave Lee Travis, and in one of the down moments he said, "This record is going to be a top three." I didn't believe him, because it had been made so haphazardly, but the next week, there it was at No. 3. And then Mark Chapman shot John Lennon and that was that. [17]

The song appeared as part of the soundtrack for the 1983 movie Risky Business and plays when the characters played by Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay have sex on a subway train. [18]

In 1984, the song was memorably used in a scene from the first episode of the television series Miami Vice , which film and television critic Matt Zoller Seitz cited as why the song has been stamped as "Property of Michael Mann" (the series' executive producer) for years, rarely being used in other screen works due to its indelible use in the series, akin to Martin Scorsese's signature use of songs by the Rolling Stones for his films. [19] "In the Air Tonight" received a new wave of attention thanks to its use in the series, enough for it to rise in sales outside the Billboard Hot 100 at number 102.

The song was remixed in 1988 by Ben Liebrand for his weekly appearance in the Curry & Van Inkel radio show on Dutch radio. The mix was completed and then taken by Liebrand to be part of a mix showcase at the DMC Mixing Championship Finals in London, attended by 3500 worldwide deejays. [20] The mix was picked up by Virgin Records for an official release, which hit Number 4 in the UK charts. [21]

In July 2020, a video reaction to the song by TwinsthenewTrend increased the sales and streaming of Collins's original version. The TwinsthenewTrend first-listen video was viewed 4.9 million times in its first two weeks online. [22] Continued popularity brought new traffic to the Collins song which rose to number 3 on Billboard's Digital Song Sales chart in August 2020. [23]

Critical reception

Record World called the song "futuristic pop that's also rhythmically captivating." [24]

Urban legend

An urban legend has arisen about "In the Air Tonight", according to which the lyrics are based on a drowning incident in which someone who was close enough to save the victim did not help them, while Collins, who was too far away to help, looked on. Increasingly embellished variations on the legend emerged over time, with the stories often culminating in Collins singling out the guilty party while singing the song at a concert. [25] Collins has denied all such stories; he commented on the legends about the song in a BBC World Service interview:

I don't know what this song is about. When I was writing this I was going through a divorce. And the only thing I can say about it is that it's obviously in anger. It's the angry side, or the bitter side of a separation. So what makes it even more comical is when I hear these stories which started many years ago, particularly in America, of someone come up to me and say, "Did you really see someone drowning?" I said, "No, wrong." And then every time I go back to America the story gets Chinese whispers, it gets more and more elaborate. It's so frustrating, 'cause this is one song out of all the songs probably that I've ever written that I really don't know what it's about, you know? [26]

The urban legend is referenced in the song "Stan" by Eminem. [27] The reference is contained in the following lyrics:

You know the song by Phil Collins, "In the Air of the Night" [ sic ]
About that guy who coulda saved that other guy from drownin'
But didn't, then Phil saw it all, then at a show he found him?

The urban legend is referenced in the Family Guy episode "The Peter Principal" as Brian is listening to Bonnie and Joe argue about the contents of the song.

Cadbury's Dairy Milk Chocolate 2007 Gorilla Advert

The song gained new found fame and legions of fans when it was famously used in a memorable 2007 Cadbury's Dairy Milk advert featuring a gorilla (really a man in a suit), warming up and playing the famous drum fill towards the end of the advert. [28]

Upon seeing the advert Collins stated in a BBC interview that he thought the advert was 'fantastic'. [29]

The song eventually reached number 14 in the UK Top 40 charts and appeared on the 'Now That's What I Call Music 68' UK CD.

Music video

The music video (directed by Stuart Orme) animates the photograph of Collins's face from the cover of the Face Value album, slowly fading in through the introduction until it fills the screen, singing the first chorus. The video then cuts to Collins sitting in an empty room at night. Twice a spectral figure appears in the window, but only the second time does Collins get up to look at it, then is shown walking to the one door of the room.

Collins's face returns for the second chorus. He is then shown leaving the room and entering a hallway full of doors. The first one is locked, then the second opens and Collins sees himself looking at the window again, only now the spectre has turned into his own reflection.

The third door is locked, but as the fourth one opens, the drum break sounds and the viewer is returned to Collins's face again, this time in thermal coloring, which gradually reverts to black and white. His reflection from the window is briefly superimposed on the face, this time seemingly reflected in water. Collins recedes into the darkness as the song repeats and fades.

In 1983 the music video was released on the home video Phil Collins available on VHS and LaserDisc which received a Grammy nomination for Best Video, Short Form. [30]

Performance

"In the Air Tonight" remains a popular selection on classic rock radio stations. It is the song most often associated with Collins' solo career, and he has performed it at many events, including Live Aid, where he played the song on a piano on the same calendar day in both Philadelphia and London. [31] He also performed the song at The Secret Policeman's Ball , which was his first live performance as a solo artist. "I remember doing 'In the Air Tonight' at Live Aid," he recalled, "and [Pete] Townshend saying, 'Are you going to do that fucking song again?' as if it was the only one I ever played." [32]

Single and credits

VSK102 UK Single Release (Martin H)

  1. "In the Air Tonight"
  2. "The Roof Is Leaking"

Sleeve includes a black and white 12-page cartoon storyboard drawn by Collins' brother Clive Collins.

UK and US single (1981)

  1. "In the Air Tonight" – 4:57
  2. "The Roof Is Leaking" – 3:36

12" German maxi-single (1981)

  1. "In the Air Tonight" (album version) – 5:35
  2. "The Roof Is Leaking" – 3:36

Japan CD single (1988)

  1. "In the Air Tonight" (extended)
  2. "In the Air Tonight" ('88 remix)
  3. "I Missed Again" (Album Version)

German CD single (1990)

  1. "In the Air Tonight" (extended version) – 7:33 (Additional production by Ben Liebrand)
  2. "In the Air Tonight" ('88 remix) – 5:07 (Remixed by Phil Collins and Hugh Padgham)
  3. "I Missed Again" – 3:42

(catalogue 2292-57672-2)

Charts

"In the Air Tonight"
In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins handwriting font.png
Handwriting font variant of the standard artwork, also used for the parent album Face Value
Single by Phil Collins
from the album Face Value
B-side "The Roof Is Leaking"
Written1980
Released9 January 1981 [1]
Studio Townhouse (London)
Genre
Length
  • 5:34 (album version)
  • 4:59 (single edit)
Label
Songwriter(s) Phil Collins
Producer(s)
Phil Collins singles chronology
"In the Air Tonight"
(1981)		"I Missed Again"
(1981)
"Separate Lives"
(1985)
"In the Air Tonight"
(1988)
"A Groovy Kind of Love"
(1988)

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [68]
Digital single 		Platinum90,000‡
Germany (BVMI) [69]
Physical single 		Gold250,000^
Italy (FIMI) [70]
Digital single 		Platinum50,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ) [71]
Physical single 		Gold10,000*
New Zealand (RMNZ) [72] Platinum15,000*
Poland (ZPAV) [73] Gold25,000‡
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [74] Gold30,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI) [75]
Physical single 		Gold500,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [76]
Digital single 		2× Platinum1,200,000‡
United States (RIAA) [77]
Physical single 		Gold500,000^
United States (RIAA) [77]
Digital single 		3× Platinum3,000,000‡

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Personnel

Lil' Kim version

"In the Air Tonite"
In the Air Tonite.jpg
Single by Lil' Kim featuring Phil Collins
from the album Urban Renewal
Released1 July 2001
Genre R&B, hip hop
Length4:07
Label WEA
Songwriter(s) Kimberly Jones, Phil Collins
Lil' Kim singles chronology
"Lady Marmalade"
(2001)		"In the Air Tonite"
(2001)		"Kimnotyze"
(2002)
Phil Collins singles chronology
"Son of Man"
(2000)		"In the Air Tonite"
(2001)		"Can't Stop Loving You"
(2002)

"In the Air Tonite" is a reworking of Phil Collins' 1981 single "In the Air Tonight" recorded by American rapper Lil' Kim for the R&B/hip hop Phil Collins tribute album Urban Renewal . The song, promoted as a duet between Collins and Lil' Kim, was released in 2001 as the second single from the album. The song's accompanying music video combines scenes from the original video with new scenes featuring Lil' Kim. It was featured in The Box Netherlands HitMix 2001. The single has been certified Platinum in Germany by the IFPI. [78]

Charts

Weekly chart performance for "In the Air Tonite"
Chart (2001)Peak
position
Australia (ARIA) [79] 91
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) [80] 8
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [81] 7
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Wallonia) [82] 19
Canada (Nielsen SoundScan) [83] 18
Europe (Eurochart Hot 100) [84] 17
Germany (Official German Charts) [85] 3
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) [86] 33
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [87] 30
Polish Airplay Chart [88] 23
Scotland (OCC) [89] 45
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) [90] 27
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [91] 11
UK Singles (OCC) [92] 26
UK Dance (OCC) [93] 18
UK Hip Hop/R&B (OCC) [94] 3
Year-end chart performance for "In the Air Tonite"
Chart (2001)Position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) [95] 73
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [96] 65
Germany (Official German Charts) [97] 28
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) [98] 65
Chart (2002)Position
Canada (Nielsen SoundScan) [99] 177

Cover versions

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