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Tonight I am just posting a reaction video that has received some attention in recent days, of two young twins, age 22), with their first-ever exposure to Phil Collins’s great song, In the Air Tonight. Tim and Fred, from Gary, Indiana, engage openly and honestly with the music, viscerally, all we could ask. Even CNN wrote about them. Their YouTube video has 2.4 million views, and counting.
I can’t say that I remember the first time that I heard the song, back in 1981, except insofar as my present-day reaction mirrors it. I know his voice, I know how the song progresses, I really know the magic he brings late … but the pleasure at the music never fails, never wanes. The drum break (per wikipedia - “the sleekest, most melodramatic drum break in history”) achieves the same victory within me that it always has.
For me, it adds something to share the experience with these young men. May it do the same for you!
Thanks for watching!
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